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According to a 2024 CDC report, at least one in four girls and one in twenty boys in the United States experience child sexual abuse, leading this traumatic experience to have long-term consequences. Sexual abuse within religious institutions is a complex issue that goes beyond individual cases to expose patterns of systemic failure, denial, and institutional betrayal. -
Florida has a series of new laws going into effect on July 1 including Dexter’s Law on animal cruelty to the Gulf of America in schools.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 at a meeting in favor of a bear hunt in December and annually into the future, allowing the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears. -
The commission staff says the goal is to “begin managing population growth” for bears, which number about 4,000 in Florida. -
The numbers highlight an oft-overlooked dilemma: Autism makes swimming instruction all the more necessary but, often, all the more difficult to get. -
U.S. health officials are investigating a new salmonella outbreak tied to a Florida grower whose tainted cucumbers were linked to more than 500 cases last year. -
At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to the practice. -
A sea of garnet, black and gold stretched across Langford Green park on the Florida State University campus Friday. -
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Misinformation about the shootings this week at Florida State University flew furiously online and over the airwaves in the hours after a lone gunman, identified as 20-year-old FSU student, fatally shot two victims and wounded six others. -
Hope Florida launched in 2021 as a program to connect Floridians in need of social and financial help to private sector groups, faith-based organizations and nonprofits, weaning them off government assistance. -
The Florida Man Games returned for round two on Saturday, featuring lawn mower races, pool noodle battles and human beer pong.
