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Florida AG sues Planned Parenthood over abortion pill safety claim
Planned Parenthood’s website says the abortion pill is safer than medicines “like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra.”
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FWC ends five-year ban on oyster harvesting in Apalachicola Bay
Areas of the bay will be open to permitted commercial harvesting on weekdays, with permitted recreational harvesting on weekends.
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Florida wildlife officials say they did not violate First Amendment rights in firing over Charlie Kirk post
Biologist Brittney Brown worked for the FWC studying shorebirds and seabirds in the area of Tyndall Air Force Base in the Panhandle.
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Florida environmental group seeks injunction to stop 2025 bear hunt
As many as 172 black bears could be killed during the hunt, which is scheduled from Dec. 6 to Dec. 28.
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To cut I-4 traffic, DeSantis wants to test flying car rideshares in Polk County
He brought up the idea during an announcement focused on new express lanes on I-4 in Hillsborough County.
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Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could could force Florida to pay the feds for food stamp errors
An increasing number of food-stamp recipients will have to meet work requirements to remain eligible.
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Florida bill would punish colleges that don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk
Money would be withheld from schools that didn’t go along with the changes, under the bill.
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Gainesville teacher fights state over ‘dictator’ certificate allegation
Watts’ attorneys disputed the state’s allegations, which also included that the teacher’s ‘conduct embarrassed and disparaged’ the student.
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FWC biologist sues after she was fired a over Charlie Kirk post
The lawsuit said Brown was fired after reposting on her Instagram account a post from an account called ‘@whalefact.’
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Tampa General Hospital joins organ transplant rule challenge
The challenges come after years of debate and disputes about approving transplant programs.
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St. Pete Beach bar wins First Amendment music fight
It’s another victory for local businesses and artists fighting city restrictions on live music.
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Florida apologized to Victor Jones for the abuse he endured at reform school. Now the state wants him executed.
He would be the third former student at the notorious reform schools to be executed in little more than a year.
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EPA, Mosaic ask court to reject lawsuit challenging use of radioactive byproduct in Polk County
The issue of using phosphogypsum in road-building has long been controversial.
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Florida’s Attorney General says open carry is “the law of the state”
An appeals court reversed a long-standing open carry ban.
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Miami Beach has challenged FDOT’s street art ban
The Miami Beach petition at the Division of Administrative Hearings said the state targeted what are described as “terrazzo pavers” at Ocean Drive and 12th Street in the city.
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Judge blocks Tampa Bay DJ from including Hulk Hogan sextape in new documentary
The ruling said Bubba the Love Sponge Clem surreptitiously recorded the wrestler in 2007 in ‘consensual private conduct’ and transferred the video to a DVD.
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Florida plans to resume bringing immigrants to Everglades facility
TALLAHASSEE — Florida plans to resume taking in immigrants at a controversial detention center in the Everglades if an appeals court pauses a judge’s order that required winding down operations at the facility, a new court filing says.
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Florida’s tax ‘holiday’ on guns and ammo started this week
It runs through the end of the year.
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DeSantis ally Paul Renner enters race to become Florida’s next governor
But the governor called Renner’s entrance ‘an ill-advised decision.’
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The feds have stopped sending immigrants to Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility
The population at the detention center dwindled to about 330 last week, court records showed.