The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Sponsored by 

FOODIES TAKEOUT & DELIVERY

DOWNLOAD FOODIES APP

Select a Restaurant and Place an Order

LOCAL NEWS

A group that City Commissioner Jack Porter is affiliated with, Local Progress, released a statement on Friday, May 3rd, supporting pro-Palestinian demonstrations which have spread across university campuses over the last couple of weeks.

Florida Senator Corey Simon will appear on The Steve Stewart Show today at 12:00 p.m. on RealTalk 93.3.

According to the ‘2023 Leading Metro Locations’ report published in the Q4 2023 issue of Area Development magazine, the Tallahassee Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) received high marks, including a #1 ranking in the U.S. in the “Economic Strength” category.

A teen was injured in a shooting during the overnight hours Sunday. A little after 12:30 a.m. Sunday, police said officers responded to the area of Bloxham and Calhoun streets near Cascades Park due to shots being fired. Officers arrived on scene and found a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his foot. He was then taken to a local hospital. 

LOCAL SPORTS NEWS

Florida State All-American Lottie Woad is in second place in the individual standings, and the No. 4 seeded Seminoles are in second place in the team standings after the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Las Vegas Regional Championship at the Spanish Trail Country Club.

FLORIDA NEWS

As chatter persists that a Special Session will be called within weeks, Central Florida lawmakers say it must address insurance. At a legislative update presented at a Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida meeting, Rep. David Smith said lawmakers must address the top issue facing Floridians.

Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson donated $100,000 to the “Yes on 2” campaign, seeking to enshrine the right to hunt and fish into Florida’s constitution. The amendment seeks to “preserve forever fishing and hunting,” as a “public right” and preferred means of responsibly managing and controlling fish and wildlife.

Gov. Ron Desantis’ office bashed Columbia University for having “capitulated” to pro-Hamas protestors by canceling spring commencement ceremonies. DeSantis’s office also celebrated the effort by all college and university presidents in Florida for keeping each schools’ ceremony on schedule, regardless of protester threats.

Officials have identified wild monkeys roaming around central Florida. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, rhesus macaques have been spotted recently in Lake County. The monkeys are originally from Asia and were brought as an attraction to Silver Springs in Marion County in the 1930s. Soon after, the monkeys escaped from the zoo and became a wild species. 

NATIONAL NEWS

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe.

The Israeli military yesterday began its long-planned ground operation in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where roughly half of the enclave’s 2.3 million people have been sheltering. Israel began striking targets in eastern Rafah less than 24 hours after warning roughly 100,000 residents in the area to evacuate. Israel believes Rafah, a city that sits on the shared border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, is the last Hamas stronghold.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to run for fourth term; Sanders, 82, is second-oldest US senator behind 90-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (R, IA) (More).

US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.0%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +1.2%), with investors fueled by a greater chance of interest rate cuts this year (More).

TALLAHASSEE WEATHER