By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Calling government efforts “wholly inadequate,” attorneys representing people held at an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades are asking a federal judge to force state and federal officials to allow adequate legal representation at the facility. The detainees’ attorneys on Thursday filed an amended complaint in […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — After a contentious legislative session this year that required overtime to hammer out a budget, Florida lawmakers could again face decisions about limiting spending during the 2026 session. “Our work is not done,” House Budget Chairman Lawrence McClure, R-Dover, said Friday after a joint House […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday directed that flags be flown at half-staff at all state and local buildings until sunset Sunday to honor conservative leader Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot this week during an appearance at a Utah university. “It is with a heavy heart that we acknowledge the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The state university system’s Board of Governors on Thursday approved the hiring of Donald Landry as interim president of the University of Florida, with an annual base salary of $2 million — and a potential additional payout if he doesn’t get the president’s job on […]
Saying the case should go to trial, an appeals court Wednesday overturned a ruling that sided with CNN in a defamation lawsuit stemming from reports about deaths of children at a Palm Beach County hospital. A three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal rejected a circuit judge’s decision that granted summary judgment to […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Saying the restrictions don’t implicate speech, a sharply divided appeals-court panel has put on hold a judge’s ruling that blocked parts of a law prohibiting non-Florida residents and non-U.S. citizens from collecting signatures for ballot proposals. Republican legislators included the restrictions, backed by Gov. Ron […]
The Republican Party of Florida in August continued to expand its voter-registration advantage over the Florida Democratic Party. The GOP had a 1,355,487 lead in “active” registered voters as of Aug. 31, up from a 1,326,217 edge at the end of July, according to data posted on the Florida Division of Elections website. The data […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Days after the city of Miami Beach filed a similar case, Fort Lauderdale has challenged the legality of directives by the Florida Department of Transportation to remove art and markings on streets. Fort Lauderdale filed its challenge Monday at the state Division of Administrative Hearings, […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A battle about the constitutionality of a state requirement that convicted sexual predators have the words “SEXUAL PREDATOR” on their driver’s licenses has gone to the Florida Supreme Court. Attorneys for Michael Crist, who was accused in 2019 of trying to cover up the sexual-predator […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Arguing that “parental-exclusion policies present one of the most important constitutional controversies in the nation,” a couple has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a battle with the Leon County school system about a child who wanted to express a gender identity and […]