It was around this time nine years ago when then-Gov. Rick Scott’s administration was accused of effectively muzzling state officials when it came to the climate crisis. The Miami Herald reported at the time that officials at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection claimed they were ordered not to use the terms “climate change” or […]
Shawnta Friday-Stroud — Florida A&M University’s vice president for University Advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation — has resigned from her vice president role amid the controversy around a dubious $237 million donation that has rocked the campus and its alumni. FAMU President Larry Robinson publicly announced her resignation during a virtual Board […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before, though rarely. So how is someone supposed to properly kill a snake in the Python Challenge, […]
The principal of a central Florida elementary school was arrested this week and accused of holding a child in a room for 40 minutes, putting him in a chokehold and hitting him with a charging cable. Dontay Akeem Prophet, 33, who had been principal of Destiny Leadership Academy in Ocala, was arrested Saturday on charges […]
A Florida resident recently captured video of a large alligator taking a stroll through a neighborhood in Hillsborough County – including audio of its warning hiss. This video was taken by Dustin Smith, who said he filmed it on April 30 in Riverview, Florida. “I see alligators in other local neighborhoods often in the summer, […]
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Our local watersheds are a vital part of everyday life here on the Gulf Coast, but with Pensacola being one of the nation’s oldest cities, infrastructure has declined over many years, and the population has only increased over time. Mobile man arrested in connection with Stockton mass shooting: Baldwin County […]
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more, according to an arrest report unsealed Wednesday. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, pleaded not guilty to driving under the […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastline. Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the […]
Florida Lawmakers Propose Changing Tax Code To Give Homeowners Insurance Premium Relief Florida Congressman Byron Donalds is teaming up with his colleague Sen. Rick Scott on a bill to provide Florida homeowners a measure of relief from the Sunshine State’s insurance crisis. The bill, known as “The Flood Insurance Relief Act,” would change the Internal […]
We’ve reached the act in Donald Trump’s trial that is no longer farce, but infuriating. This is what the supposedly greatest country on the planet is transmitting to the rest of the world, that we are unserious even about the principles we declare we hold most dear. We’ve had a porn actress describing sexual acts […]
Never underestimate spite as a motivating force. Builder John Atkins and Ryan Wetherhold of Oceanside Real Estate decided to build a 15-foot-wide house on an empty 25-foot-wide lot in Jacksonville Beach, but they got some pushback from the neighbors. At a public hearing some of them, particularly a next-door neighbor who had been using the […]
The driver of a truck that slammed into a bus carrying farmworkers, killing eight people, was in another crash just three days earlier and taken a cocktail of drugs the day before, court records revealed on Wednesday. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, was ordered held without bail a little more than 24 hours after the crash […]