This Saturday the ‘Noles are going across the pond to Dublin, Ireland to play the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at 12 noon. The game will be aired live on ESPN from Aviva Stadium. Georgia Tech finished 2023 with a 7-6 record including a win over UCF in the Gasparilla Bowl. FSU is 15-11-1 versus the […]
City Commissioner Jack Porter won her primary election on Tuesday with 53.46 % of the vote. She defeated Rudy Ferguson (38.79%) and Louis Dilbert (7.75%). Here are some of the numbers behind her victory. Of the 117,304 registered city voters, 33,784 cast a vote in the race which translates to a primary voter turnout rate […]
LOCAL NEWS As of August 18, 2024, the year-to-date numbers indicate that the total number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department are down 6.5% when compared to the same period in 2023. Get the details. After over a year of back-and-forth, the City of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Professional Firefighters union have […]
By The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Port Canaveral leaders acquiesced Wednesday to demands by the state and reversed plans for a new cruise terminal that could have been an impediment to future needs of the space industry. The Port Canaveral Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to end plans set in May for redesignating […]
The US government reduced the estimated number of annual jobs added by 818,000 yesterday. The new figure, still preliminary, suggests 2.1 million jobs were added from April 2023 to March 2024, a 28% revision from the 2.9 million previously reported. Annual revisions have recently averaged about 173,000 jobs added or subtracted and come as the Bureau of […]
As of August 18, 2024, the year-to-date numbers indicate that the total number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department are down 6.5% when compared to the same period in 2023. TR’s last report indicated the total number of crime incidents was down 5.8% year-to-date (YTD). The numbers show that property crime incidents are down […]
LOCAL NEWS City Commissioner Jack Porter won a second term on the Tallahassee city commission winning a majority of votes cast in Tuesday’s primary election and avoiding a November runoff. Leon County School Board member Laurie Cox held off challenger Jeremy Rogers to win a non-partisan election that essentially became a battle between a Republican […]
By The News Service of Florida Democratic-endorsed school board candidates fared somewhat better Tuesday than candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. In July, DeSantis pitched an initial list of 23 endorsements for 2024 races. Of those candidates, six won primaries Tuesday, 11 lost and six others moved on to runoffs that will be decided in […]
Three local races ended with incumbents receiving more than 70% of the vote. In the race for Leon County Property Appraiser, the incumbent Akin Akinyemi won with 71.7% of the vote. The challenger, Ken Preston, received 28.3% of the vote. In the race for Superintendent of Schools, incumbent Rocky Hanna won the Democrat primary with […]
Leon County School Board member Laurie Cox held off challenger Jeremy Rogers to win a non-partisan election that essentially became a battle between a Republican and Democrat. The early vote gave Rogers a slim 51%-49% lead, but as the election day votes came in, Cox secured 52.32% of the vote in a district that leans […]