The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, June 6, 2024

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LOCAL NEWS

David Pollard, the Director of the Tallahassee International Airport, in a recent press release, explained the pivotal role the airport plays in Tallahassee’s economic prosperity.

A Tallahassee man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for a deadly New Year’s Eve stabbing in 2020. Kaleb Sheffield received a life sentence in connection to the death of Matthew Williams. Sheffield was accused of killing Williams during an argument at a Huckabee Road home on December 31, 2020.

LOCAL SPORTS NEWS

High school athletes in the state of Florida can now profit off their name, image and likeness thanks to a unanimous vote Monday by the Florida High School Athletic Association. Coaches and administrators respond.

FLORIDA NEWS

Warning of a legal “collision course,” the Atlantic Coast Conference on Wednesday asked a Tallahassee-based appeals court to put on hold a lawsuit filed by Florida State University against the conference while a similar case plays out in North Carolina.

In one of numerous similar lawsuits in Florida and across the country, the state Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed whether a University of Florida graduate student could seek to require the school to refund money for services that were not provided during a COVID-19 campus shutdown in 2020.

A Florida circuit court Judge is giving state economists up to 15 days to come up with a new description for the abortion access amendment that will be on the November ballot.

NATIONAL NEWS

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France during World War II, the largest amphibious assault in history. President Joe Biden and dozens of heads of state are slated to attend commemorations along a 50-mile stretch of northern France. Nearly 200 veterans, whose average age is 100, will be present.

Jurors in Hunter Biden’s criminal trial got a look at the .38 caliber Colt revolver he bought back in October 2018. They saw Form 4473, the firearms transaction record at the center of the case. And they’re hearing testimony from the former store clerk who watched as the president’s son checked off “no” to the question of whether he was “an unlawful user of or addicted to” marijuana, stimulants, narcotics or any other controlled substance.

Boeing’s Starliner astronauts are set to dock at the International Space Station today at 12:15 pm ET, after yesterday marked the company’s first successful launch to outer space.

US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.2%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +2.0%) with S&P 500 and Nasdaq reaching record highs amid Nvidia stock rally and economic data fueling interest rate cut hopes (More) 

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