By The News Service of Florida The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Florida was $3.38 on Monday, the lowest price since January, according to the AAA auto club. The average price was down from $3.41 a week earlier and $3.61 a month earlier. Florida hit a record high of $4.89 […]
By The News Service of Florida Since 2019, when Florida lawmakers created a voucher program called the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, the “flow of public funds to private education” has dramatically increased, according to a new report by the nonprofit Florida Policy Institute and the Education Law Center. The report details an increase in money […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Pete Antonacci, a political fix-it man who garnered bipartisan praise during a career in public service that spanned more than three decades, died of a heart attack Friday afternoon. Antonacci, a former prosecutor and supervisor of elections, most recently headed a controversial new state office […]
This Saturday at 8 PM on the ACC Network the Seminoles will host the Boston College Eagles. BC is 1-2 on the season with a win against Maine and losses to Rutgers and Virginia Tech. FSU is 13-5 all time versus the Eagles and is coming off a 26-23 victory last season. Observations from the […]
Amelia Haggins of Leon High Schoool, Mckinley Hill of North Florida Christian High School and Kaylin Johnson of Chiles High School have been named TR’s Leon County High School Volleyball Players of the Week for week four of the season, ending September 16th. The awards are based on an analysis of statistics provided to MaxPreps – the […]
By Jim Saunders and Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As he defended sending migrants to “sanctuary jurisdictions,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday was hit with a potential class-action lawsuit that alleged Venezuelan migrants were lured with false promises to fly last week from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The lawsuit, […]
Tallahassee City Commissioners are slated to address the issue of gun violence at their September 21 city commission meeting. The discussion will center around how to spend $1 million each year over the next five years to mitigate the troubling gun violence trends that have emerged since 2018. The chart below – created with information […]
On Wednesday, September 21, the Tallahassee City Commission voted 5-0 to approve an agreement with Burrell Aviation related to the finance, design, construction and management of an aviation-related aeronautical development located at the Tallahassee International Airport. The project will provide approximately $20,000,000 of private investment in the airport and will result in over $8,000,000 of […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren but also rejected the Democrat’s request for a preliminary injunction to block the suspension by Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying the public wouldn’t be served by “yo-yoing” […]
Kaylin Johnson and Kate Stewart of Chiles High School and Kenzie Hultquist of Florida State University High School have been named TR’s Leon County High School Volleyball Players of the Week for week three of the season, ending September 9th. The awards are based on an analysis of statistics provided to MaxPreps – the official scores and […]