The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Wednesday, April 10, 2024

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LOCAL NEWS

Following the jury’s guilty verdict in the controversial Riley DUI case, Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell sent an email to TPD employees. Get the details.

On Tuesday the Tallahassee Police issued a press release related to the Riley DUI case. The release provides links to the video footage of the incident.

On Wednesday, the City of Tallahassee will hold a budget workshop and report on the first seven months’ financial results for the 14 funds that comprise the City’s FY24 operating budget. The agenda for the workshop notes that the city’s general fund currently has a FY25 projected deficit of $3.8 million.

A Tallahassee man is behind bars after being accused of trying to kill his roommate. The man is facing  an attempted murder charge in connection to the incident that unfolded Saturday and left his roommate with non-life-threatening injuries. The incident occurred at the 3000 block of Parkridge Drive.

LOCAL SPORTS NEWS

A Leon County judge, John C. Cooper, denied the ACC’s motion to postpone FSU’s lawsuit against the league in Tallahassee. Cooper’s ruling from the bench comes less than a week after a Charlotte judge issued his mirror opinion: that the ACC’s lawsuit against FSU will continue in North Carolina.

Amid a sold out crowd that saw the Marching Chiefs perform and a national broadcast audience on ESPN, Florida State baseball (27-5) completed the season sweep over Florida (17-15) in the with a 19-4 run-rule victory on Tuesday evening at Dick Howser Stadium. Every player in the starting lineup scored a run on the night and contributed to the largest margin of victory for the Seminoles in the series history.

FLORIDA NEWS

Attorney General Ashley Moody announced a multi-state effort to combat President Joe Biden’s attempt to further cancel student loan debt for Americans. The lawsuit targets the federal government’s SAVE Plan, which, according to Moody’s office, will cost Americans $475 billion. $45 billion more than Biden’s last student loan plan.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently issued a report confirming Burmese pythons have been slithering their way more frequently into Southwest Florida. According to the FWC, Burmese python sightings have increased in western Charlotte County, Lee County, and southern Sarasota County from 2015-2024. The snake has been specifically documented within the townships of Rotonda, Placida, Englewood, Gasparilla Island, and Port Charlotte.

The Gov. Ron DeSantis administration is doubling up its efforts to break the cycle of addiction and reduce the number of overdoses by expanding a medication-assisted treatment program to an additional 17 counties across Florida. DeSantis announced that the Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) Network Model program was being expanded to serve 29 counties total.

NATIONAL NEWS

The European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday that countries have an obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect people from the effects of climate change, marking the first successful international court ruling on climate change. The decision sets a legal precedent for climate litigation within the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, including the 27 EU nations (see the difference).

The parents of the convicted Oxford High School shooter were both sentenced yesterday to 10 to 15 years in state prison for their roles in failing to prevent their son from opening fire at his Michigan school in November 2021, killing four and wounding seven others. It is the first such conviction of parents of a child who committed a mass shooting in the US. 

US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +0.3%) ahead of today’s March inflation data; economists predict consumer price index report to show growth of 0.3% month-over-month and 3.4% year-over-year (More). 

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