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6:23 Sandra Averhart presents an excerpt of a 2014 interview with Pensacola Attorney Fred Levin, who died Tuesday at the age of 83. A private funeral service will be today for renowned Pensacola Attorney Fred Levin, who died Tuesday, at the age of 83, due to complications from COVID-19. In 2014, Levin spoke to WUWF about his extraordinary life after the release of a biography titled, And Give Up Showbiz? Heres an excerpt from that interview.  “I mean I had so many great things happen in m...

Attorney Fred Levin, who fought tobacco industry, dies at 83 FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 22, 1999, file photo, attorney Fred Levin waits to be honored by the Ambassador of Ghana to the United States, at the United Nations. Levin, the Florida attorney who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File) January 13, 2021 - 3:37 AM PENSACOLA,...

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BERLIN — German authorities in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg say they’re holding off on using the first batch of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine over concerns it may have spoiled by not being kept cold enough during transport. Berlin health authorities said Wednesday that the state’s first 2,400 doses of the vaccine arrived as planned on Tuesday but that after initial quality control assessments, there are “doubts as to whether the vaccine was transported and refrigera...

UF’s College of Law namesake has died after contracting COVID-19 He died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 83 Century Tower UF alumnus Fred Levin died Tuesday afternoon of COVID-19 complications at the age of 83. After graduating from the University of Florida College of Law, Levin became a practicing attorney in Pensacola in 1961. UF renamed its law school in 1999 to Fredric G. Levin College of Law after Levin made a $10 million contribution to the school the previo...

Florida attorney Fred Levin, who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, died Tuesday, several days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83.

The Latest: Coronavirus cases surging in northeast China A soldier stands guard as healthcare workers are registered to receive shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, on the first day of coronavirus vaccinations in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) January 13, 2021 - 6:28 PM BEIJING — China is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast, and has reported its first death attributed to COVID-19 in m...

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Florida attorney Fred Levin, who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, has died several days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83. An attorney at the Levin Papantonio Rafferty legal firm says Levin died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19, the disease that can be caused by the virus. The Pensacola News Journal says Levin’s career began in 1961 when he joined the law firm founded by his brother. In the 1990s, Levin was able to get the...

The Latest: S. Korean sect leader acquitted over virus cases by The Associated Press Last Updated Jan 13, 2021 at 2:58 am EDT SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court has acquitted a religious sect leader of charges that he deliberately disrupted the government’s anti-virus response early last year after thousands of his worshippers were infected with the coronavirus. However, the Suwon District Court on Wednesday found the 89-year-old Lee Man-hee guilty of separate charges that he embezzl...

BEIJING — China is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast, and...