The University of Florida football team found an opponent it couldn’t block: Campus parking enforcers have issued hundreds of tickets to players parked illegally around the stadium during mandatory practices. On the sprawling campus of 2,000 acres at the state’s flagship university – where finding parking can be a daily …
Read More »As sale of Twitter proceeds, US appeals judges to hear arguments over new Florida law cracking down on social media companies
In a major free speech case, a federal appeals court panel will hear oral arguments Thursday on whether Florida can implement parts of a controversial new law that would prohibit social media companies from banning political candidates’ accounts.
Read More »Florida quarterback Richardson was driving faster than 105 mph, deputy says in newly released video
Anthony Richardson, the young University of Florida quarterback who has electrified fans, could have been ticketed for driving faster than 105 mph earlier this month, but the sheriff’s deputy’s pickup that briefly pursued him couldn’t go any faster, according to newly released video of the traffic stop. In the video, …
Read More »Here’s what Florida’s lawmakers didn’t do: notable failed bills in 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis continued this week to sign into law some of the measures Florida’s Republican-led Legislature passed this session, but thousands of bills died in Tallahassee and never made it to the governor, including some on notable issues.
Read More »Florida city with infamous racial stain earns surprise state grant to repair its abandoned Black cemetery
It was almost like a miracle touched the abandoned, historic Black cemetery in Groveland, just west of Orlando. After the state rejected the city’s application for $499,000 to restore a graveyard where 70 souls are believed to be buried, Groveland unexpectedly got word a few weeks ago the funds were …
Read More »Florida’s largest Medicaid payment vendor must pay nearly $9.1 million after missing deadline to challenge government fine
The deadline set by Florida lapsed for its largest Medicaid payment vendor to challenge a nearly $9.1 million fine over the company’s failure for nearly three months to pay tens of thousands of health-care claims for the state’s sickest and neediest children. Sunshine State Health Plan Inc. of Tampa had …
Read More »Homeless man described by sister as mentally ill is first arrest in Florida voter fraud investigation
The first of 10 felons charged with election fraud is back in the county jail where he was first accused of signing up as an ineligible voter during a jailhouse registration drive in 2020. Kelvin Bolton, 55, of Gainesville, was arrested at a local homeless shelter, St Francis House, court …
Read More »Report in election fraud investigation says jailhouse sign-ups could compromise Florida’s voter system
The lead investigator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sweeping criminal probe into jailhouse voter sign-ups by this county’s Democratic elections supervisor concluded that the effort represented a “haphazard registration of inmates” that could compromise the integrity of the state’s voter registrations, according to her summary notes in the …
Read More »Tenth person charged with voter fraud investigation over jailhouse registrations
A 10th former jail inmate is facing felony voter fraud charges, accused of registering to vote and casting a ballot in the 2020 presidential election while owing unpaid court fees dating as far back as 1994. The latest indictment follows an eight-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement …
Read More »Alachua County Supervisor of Elections office employees cleared of wrongdoing in voter fraud probe
An eight-month, Florida criminal voter fraud investigation has cleared all current and former employees at the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office, prosecutors said Thursday. The only people being charged in these cases are the inmates who registered to vote while they were ineligible to do so, said Darry Lloyd, …
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