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NEW YORK Law enforcement officials in Florida say they are reviewing whether to prosecute Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede, who was fired Wednesday after secretly taping a phone conversation with a former county commissioner who later killed himself. A spokesman for State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida said her office is reviewing whether DeFede broke the law when he taped an interview on Wednesday with Arthur Teele Jr., minutes before Teele shot himself to death in the Herald's lobby. "We are in the process of trying to accumulate information and evidence upon which a...

MIAMI -- Suspended Miami Commissioner Art Teele shot himself in the Miami Herald building late this afternoon. Former Commissioner Arthur Teele Teele survived the shooting, and was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. Teele has one gun shot wound to the head and he had lost a great deal of blood, according to witnesses. According to witnesses, just after 6 p.m., Teele held a gun to his head, and spoke calmly with a security guard. Then when police arrived, he pulled the trigger.

Former Miami commissioner Art Teele committed suicide in lobby of the Miami herald building. He was being brought up under corruption charges