Law and public safety

Nearly 50 years ago, Jimmy Norris was killed in Florida. Rosemary Norris-Southward was not quite 14 years old when she watched her brother walk out of their home for the last time. Forty-six years later, she said she feels closer to James “Jimmy” Norris than she has in decades.

The legal dispute that prevented Gov. Ron DeSantis from appointing the first Jamaican-born, Black woman to the Florida Supreme Court has left the court without a Black justice for the first time in at least 37 years.

Thirteen Alachua County smoke shops are in violation of selling tobacco products to people younger than 21 and will go to court on Nov. 19.

The Florida Supreme Court heard a second round of arguments in a challenge to a state law aimed at implementing a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.

A new road that will extend Southwest 62nd Boulevard to Clark Butler Boulevard is currently scheduled to begin in the winter of 2021 and be completed in early 2023.

Florida leaders virtually discussed their plans to combat human trafficking at the 2020 Human Trafficking Summit. This year, there were more than 2,000 registered participants from every Florida county and 38 states.

Putnam County was awarded a grant by The Federal Emergency Management Agency that will pay for the salaries and benefits of 12 firefighters over the next three years.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up an appeal by a Broward County nursing home whose license was revoked after residents died following Hurricane Irma.