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 […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With the general election two months off, post-primary polls indicate Florida’s gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races are close as battles loom for remaining “persuadable voters.” A poll commissioned by the senior-advocacy group AARP said Gov. Ron DeSantis leads Democratic challenger Charlie Crist by a margin […]
The first quarter of the school year is not yet in the books and there have already been three arrests related to firearms on Leon County school property. The latest incident happened at Leon High School when the school’s resource deputy arrested a 17-year-old student last week for having a loaded gun. The Leon County […]
Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey took to Twitter to defend a meeting at his private residence related to how taxpayer funds dedicated to Tallahassee’s gun violence issue would be allocated for the next budget year. During recent budget workshops, city commissioners made the decision to allocate $1 million per year over the next fiver years to […]
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Stakes are high in a North Florida contest between a scion of a prominent Democratic political family and a former football star who is a “huge fan” of Gov. Ron DeSantis, in one of the state Senate’s most closely watched races this year. Incumbent Sen. […]
A comparison of Tallahassee public safety statistics before and after the COVID pandemic reveal that violent crime has increased while arrests are down. In addition, data shows that traffic violations decreased during the COVID pandemic but has returned to pre-COVID levels. Is there a connection between decreased traffic enforcement and the increase in violent crime […]