TPD UPDATE Around 11 p.m. on Saturday night, December 28, 2019, TPD officers located and pursued a stolen white Ford Fusion believed to be involved in the attempted homicide in the Ox Bottom Crest neighborhood earlier the same day. The vehicle crashed in the area of Fairlane Road & Sherwood Drive. Six people fled from […]
Josepha “Jeppa” Ribaudo, B.S.R.N. lost her valiant fight against cancer on December 10, while in the excellent care of the medical team and staff at Capital Regional Medical Center as well as the Florida Cancer Specialist and Research Institute. It was also at Capital Regional Medical Center where she spent the last decades of her […]
The City of Tallahassee has released the employment agreement for Police Chief Lawrence Revell. See full agreement here. The agreement appears to be consistent with the agreement offered to the previous candidate Antonio Gilliam on retention and organizational control issues, The annual salary is set at $180,000 and states that the chief will serve “at […]
The City of Tallahassee has scheduled three events for the community to meet new Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell who will be sworn-in on January 6th, “We’re going to have real conversations about real issues. I hope you take the time to attend one of the upcoming meetings because opening the lines of communication is […]
The latest employment information shows that Leon County lost 811 jobs in November. One year ago Leon County lost 185 jobs. Despite the job losses, the unemployment rate in November declined from 2.8% in October to 2.5%. The decline was aided by a decline in people looking for work from October to November. One year […]
Information provided by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) shows that there were 57 incidents reported during the week of December 11th-17th. The data indicates there were 48 property incidents and 9 violent incidents. A regional breakdown of the incidents – based on TPD defined quadrants – shows that the Northwest quadrant of Tallahassee led the […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Voters will decide in November whether to gradually raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, after the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously approved a ballot proposal. The proposed constitutional amendment, spearheaded by Orlando attorney John Morgan, had received enough petition signatures to […]
By Keith Miles, FAMU Forward On Thursday, November 21, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) notified Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University’s (FAMU) College of Education it now ranks number one across the state for elementary education programs in the Elementary/English as a Second Language (ESOL) endorsement and the reading endorsement among its peer groups. FAMU’s […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As a three-year legal battle continues over the issue, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran wants the Florida High School Athletic Association to reconsider policies that prevented Christian schools from offering a prayer over the stadium loudspeaker before a 2015 state championship football game. Corcoran sent a […]
Sales of existing single-family homes in Leon county increased 18.0% when compared to numbers sold in the same month one year ago. There were 183 single-family home resales in November 2018 and 216 resales in November 2019. Last month there were 251 existing single-family homes sold. The average sales price in November 2019 decreased 4.9% […]