LOCAL NEWS
Following an opinion article by Leon County School Board Alva Smith, addressing operational efficiencies, Superintendent Rocky Hanna, during Tuesday’s school board meeting, pledged to conduct an operational review of school finances before the end of the year.
An estimated 1,000 attendees showed up for Tallahassee’s Longest Table event the evening of Sunday, Oct. 12. The table extended along Duval Street between West Jefferson and West St. Augustine.
Hugh Max Jordan died peacefully October 11th, 2025, surrounded by his family in Tallahassee, Florida. He was born November 29, 1940, in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the third eldest of twelve children born to the late Ross Allen Jordan and Vivian Dyal Jordan.
LOCAL SPORTS
The Community Christian (CCS) volleyball team just finished the 2025-2026 regular season with a record of 21-6, winning the most games during one season in school history.
FLORIDA NEWS
Jim Boyd, a veteran lawmaker who heads an insurance and investment firm in Bradenton, was formally selected Tuesday by Senate Republicans to become the next Senate president.
With Citizens Property Insurance Corp. leaders expecting tens of thousands of policies to move to the private market later this year, the state insurer’s policy count remained almost unchanged last week.
NATIONAL NEWS
The US military struck a small vessel accused of smuggling illegal drugs off the Venezuelan coast yesterday, killing at least six people. The incident marks the fifth such operation in the Caribbean Sea amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on alleged drug traffickers.
President Donald Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (More).
US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq -0.8%) as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at interest rate cuts and US-China trade tensions escalate (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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