Bea Lunardini

Felipe Zapata Velásquez, 27, a University of Florida international student, chose to remain in the U.S. and was sent to Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami within days of his arrest before going back to Colombia, his mother said.

A University of Florida international student from Colombia who was renewing his student visa was arrested in a traffic stop and is being held by immigration agents in South Florida, his family says.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to repeal some provisions in the legislation signed by then-Gov. Rick Scott three weeks after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at his Parkland high school. The governor raised the prospect during his State of the State speech Tuesday.

Malnory, 29, was less than one month away from her 2nd birthday when James Ford murdered her parents, Greg and Kim Malnory, in rural Charlotte County in southwest Florida. Malnory was left in a car seat in her father’s blue pickup after her parents’ murders, where police found her and her parents’ bodies the next morning.

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was executed by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Thursday and pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. Around 25 people witnessed the execution and Ford had no final statement, according to The Associated Press.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed James D. Ford's execution order earlier this year and set his execution for Thursday. His attorneys have challenged longstanding federal and state precedent in attempts to avoid his death, but the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal Wednesday.

The property includes two apartment buildings located at 2105 and 2120 SW 14th St. in Gainesville. It provides housing primarily for working homeless people but opens applications for those with disabilities at times.

Indigency applications, filed when a person has been charged with a crime, are the gateway to a poor person’s court process. Before they can reap these benefits, though, they must pay a fee $50.

Jones’ story of illiteracy is shared among 20% of Americans, or 43 million people, according to a 2019 study from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. In Florida, estimates from the Institute of Education Sciences in 2017 indicate that illiteracy rates are between 24 to 26%.