The Tallahassee-based firm, Lawson Huck Gonzalez, is now helping steer UWF’s search for a permanent president – a post Diaz has said he intends to pursue. The university’s trustees last week approved an annual compensation range for the next president between $800,000 and $1.2 million.

People with guns can begin carrying them openly on streets and inside businesses or restaurants where owners don’t object, from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle, the attorney general says.

One Florida teacher is suspended, and at least three more are under investigation for comments they made about Charlie Kirk after his murder – not in the classroom, but on their personal social media accounts.

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday struck down Florida’s law against openly carrying a gun in public as unconstitutional.

In what Orlando’s Democratic mayor, Buddy Dyer, called a “cruel political act,” one rainbow crosswalk serving as a memorial outside Pulse was paved over in the dead of night on Aug. 20.

Dubbed the “Deportation Depot,” Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference last week called the vacant Baker prison “ready-made infrastructure.” It once held 1,165 inmates. The governor’s office said the site would hold 1,300 but could be expanded to accommodate as many as 2,000 immigrants.

President Kent Fuchs has agreed to a one-month contract extension ending Sept. 1.

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned that his brother — Cardinal Robert Prevost — had been elected pope.

Across Florida, there are nearly 900 derelict vessels dating back to 2020, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

“I’m not a perfect man,” said the newly elected vice chair of the Republican Party of Florida, Jovanté Teague, “but I’m somebody who’s willing to do the job.”