Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed 25 bills into law, including approving $2.15 million for a Jacksonville man wrongfully imprisoned for almost 43 years and two measures tied to a series of controversial highway plans.
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Adam Mandel, 19, of Weston, Fla., was driving as fast as 80 mph on West University Avenue, when he lost control on a Thursday evening in January and crashed his Lexus sports car into a guardrail and hit a utility pole. Mandel’s passenger was his 20-year-old girlfriend, Kassandra Guzman-Ramirez of Weston, who died from her injuries.
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Chief Justice Charles Canady of the Florida Supreme Court issued a new order this week suspending all civil and criminal jury trials and grand jury proceedings statewide through at least April 17.
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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Alachua County remained at 37, with only eight counties across the state having more, according to the Florida Department of Health.
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Under federal law, schools are not permitted to fund meals for students during times when they normally would have been off from school.
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State school officials said public schools would remain closed until April 15, and announced the suspension of mass campus gatherings, including sports events.
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He intends to recommend to the state's Board of Governors to instruct university presidents to hold online classes only for the remainder of the spring semester.
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Supervisors of elections are stocking voting precincts with extra soap, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes.
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"The Blameless" follows a family as they have a shooter’s father over for dinner.
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