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LOCAL NEWS
Leon County School Board member Rosanne Wood files for re-election. This is Wood’s third campaign for the school board. She was the principal of SAIL High School for 32 years and calls herself “an unrelenting advocate for the most vulnerable kids.”
At noon today, restaurateur Eddie Agromante will appear on The Steve Stewart Show on RealTalk 93.3.
A Tallahassee man was found guilty of a 2022 home invasion in which he participated. He exchanged gunfire with the resident of the home be was robbing, and the resident was killed. The man was found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of resident Justin King and guilty of second degree felony murder in the death of would-be robber Quincy Barnes.
A Tallahassee woman was left with serious injuries on Friday night after a shooting took place, according to Tallahassee Police, causing her to flee from where the shooting occurred. The shooting initially occurred in the 500 block of Castlewood Drive but was found by police at Laura Lee Avenue and South Meridian Street. Once officers arrived on scene, police say they began rendering life-saving aid to the victim before she was transported to a local hospital.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
The Chiles T-Wolves girls soccer team lost the 6A District 2 championship on the road to Niceville High School with a final score of 2-0. The T-Wolves finish the season 11-4-3 and now prepare for the state tournament. In other action, Maclay beat Taylor County 2-1 & Florida High beat Marianna 8-0.
Florida State Athletics Hall of Famer Rick Stockstill has joined the FSU football staff as director of scouting for offense, head coach Mike Norvell announced Monday. Stockstill, who was inducted into the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019, completed an 18-year run as the head coach at MTSU following the 2023 season and brings with him 41 years of collegiate coaching experience
FLORIDA NEWS
The Florida Supreme Court will review a ballot amendment that would codify abortions in the State of Florida. As of late-January, the “Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion” has nearly one million valid signatures, over the required threshold for ballot placement of 891,523.
Legislation creating offenses for lewd and lascivious grooming in Florida passed its second committee assignment on Monday. The anti-grooming bill would make it a third degree felony for any person above the age of 18 to use sexually inappropriate communication and conduct with someone under the age of 16 in order to get them to participate in illegal sexual activity.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Paul Renner introduced a series of proposed constitutional amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The proposals included term limits, a balanced federal budget, reform federal governance and potentially using an Article V Convention to enact these changes.
NATIONAL NEWS
President Joe Biden has made some strong claims over the past few days about shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border as he tries to salvage a border deal in Congress that would also unlock money for Ukraine. Get the details.
House Republicans are moving swiftly toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they call his “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws, but in a personal appeal he argued they should instead be working with the Biden administration on U.S.-Mexico border security.
US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq +1.1%) with S&P 500 closing at another record high ahead of this week’s Big Tech earnings reports and latest batch of economic indicators (More).
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“The anti-grooming bill would make it a third degree felony for any person above the age of 18 to use sexually inappropriate communication and conduct with someone under the age of 16 in order to get them to participate in illegal sexual activity.”
So, if I interpret this correctly, a person above the age of 18 is free to conduct this kind of activity with someone who is 17 years old?
Apparently, a year makes a really big difference according to our brilliant lawmakers.
We get the names of the two dead guys… Never mind who killed them.
“…Tallahassee man was found guilty of a 2022 home invasion…”
TR is slacking on its reporting. The guilty man is Rovontai Payne who is black. And linking to our local fake news is weak reporting.
When you leave out basic information you fail to inform our community where the threats to our safety are.
Black crime. If you can say/print it you can’t solve the problem. A 12 year black male has been arrested, in south Florida, and charge with second degree murder. Face it, these black youth prefer their lifestyle and all we can do it lock them up and protect our families.