LOCAL NEWS
The latest jobs report shows the Leon County March unemployment rate was unchanged from February at 3.8%.
Four months into 2025, crime incident data published daily by the Tallahassee Police Department shows that total crime incidents have declined by 37.2% when compared to incident data from January thru April in 2024.
HCA Florida Capital Hospital recently announced the appointment of Dale Neely as chief executive officer. This is a return to Tallahassee for Neely, who served for five years as chief operating officer at HCA Florida Capital Hospital from 2007-2012.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
On May 1, both Chiles (14-4) and Florida High (15-3) won their regional final flag football games to advance to the state semifinals. Get the stats.
FLORIDA NEWS
Florida lawmakers late Friday approved barring students in elementary and middle schools from using cell phones during the school day — and testing the idea in high schools.
Two bills contained the bulk of education policy that passed through both legislative chambers, negotiated until the final hours of the scheduled regular session on Friday.
NATIONAL NEWS
Swiss bank UBS Group AG yesterday agreed to pay $511M to settle a criminal investigation by the US Justice Department that found Credit Suisse (the bank UBS bought in 2023) helped wealthy Americans evade taxes on more than $4B in at least 475 offshore accounts. The settlement comes more than a decade after Credit Suisse pledged to halt such practices.
Trump administration offers undocumented immigrants free airline tickets and $1K to leave the US (More).
US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.7%); S&P 500 snaps nine-day winning streak (More).
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@Sarah, I agree. My children don’t have cell phones, but it shouldn’t be up to the legislature to determine that. I’m becoming exhausted by all the conflicting parent/child legislation. Politicians shouldn’t be picking and choosing what rights parents have.
As the mother of a school aged child, I completely disagree with this law barring students from using cell phones during the school day. I agree they should not be allowed to use them during instructional time. However, there are a multitude of reasons they need to be able to text their parents. Especially if they are on a field trip. These legislators clearly don’t have school aged children.