The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Monday, August 25, 2025

LOCAL NEWS

Now that City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow has announced a run for mayor, the race to fill his seat is underway. One of the candidates who has filed is Talethia Edwards.

Two students at different high schools were arrested on Friday for having weapons on campus.

The Kearney Center emergency shelter is now providing medical care to its clients for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

LOCAL SPORTS

High School Football Update: Lincoln Trojans defeats Niceville in football opener, other scores.

High School Volleyball Update: Chiles Volleyball team defeated the Beachside Barracudas (3-1) in a rematch of the 2024 regional finals. Get the details of this match and other scores.

On Aug. 23rd, the first cross country meet of the high school season took place at Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park in Tallahassee featuring ten schools from Leon County. Get the results.

FLORIDA NEWS

Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t backing away from a controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades after a federal judge ordered his administration to begin dismantling the facility, as environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe gear up for the next stage of the legal battle.

The days of weekslong recounts and razor-thin statewide margins seem to be a thing of the past for the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF). But as the party holds maybe its greatest level of influence ever, state GOP Chair Evan Power said the party’s work is far from done.

NATIONAL NEWS

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is expected to plead guilty today in a Brooklyn courthouse to federal drug, money laundering, and weapons charges. The 77-year-old drug lord cofounded Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel alongside Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

US immigration officials plan to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda if he rejects plea deal on human smuggling charges, refuses deportation to Costa Rica (More).

US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +1.5%, Dow +1.9%, Nasdaq +1.9%), with Dow closing at record high following Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments seeming to signal lower interest rates (More).

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