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Stained and smelly carpet in off campus apartment Tuscaloosa, Ala. —  A move-in nightmare. University of Alabama students are calling conditions in off campus apartments "deplorable." "There's all these stains and as you come in you can smell kinda the mildew in the apartment," said Marisela Soria as she walked us through the apartment her college sophomore daughter was supposed to move into Saturday. "She can't live here, it's unacceptable for anybody to live in these conditions." The apartment above Soria's smelling so strongly of urine we had to plug our noses while inside. And one after another students and parents sent us pictures and videos of the conditions inside the apartments at Campus Evolution Villages . The apartments are about two miles from the University of Alabama. It is not owned by the University but the apartment's website says it's at the heart of the University of Alabama and close to Shelton State Community C...

TAMPA — Two years ago, a college sophomore named Nicole Nachtman was marched past cameras into a county jail, accused of murdering her mother and step-father at their Carrollwood home. Prosecutors called the shootings "heinous, atrocious and cruel" and declared that Nachtman acted in a "cold, calculated and premeditated manner." They announced their intent to seek the death penalty. Then, last month, the Hillsborough State Attorney 's Office quietly took capital punishment off the table. What changed? The state attorney . Andrew Warren has withdrawn pursuit of the death penalty in five of 24 cases he inherited when he took over the office in January, after voters ousted longtime state attorney Mark Ober . A sixth defendant avoided death row with a guilty plea. Seventeen of the cases await review . Only once, so far, has Warren affirmed the prior administration's decision to seek death, although he also elected to seek it once in a more recent case. ...