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Florida governor suspends sheriff who 'failed' in Parkland school shooting
Florida's governor on Friday suspended the sheriff who oversaw the response to last year's Parkland school shooting over failings in his handling of the massacre. Gov. Ron DeSantis said Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel had "repeatedly failed" and "demonstrated a pattern of poor leadership" following ...
Florida pardons four black men accused of 1949 rape in a case now seen as a stain on state's past
After a dramatic hourlong meeting that recalled events from nearly seven decades ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's three-member Cabinet granted posthumous pardons Friday to four black men accused of raping a white woman in a 1949 case now seen as a ...
1.4 million Florida ex-cons — 10% of adult population — win back right to vote
Some 1.4 million people in Florida can begin registering to vote on Tuesday after the U.S. state's electorate ended a measure banning suffrage for people with felony convictions. "I want to cry," said Yraida Guanipa, a 57-year-old former convict who now heads the YG Institute ...
Mugger attacks senior who was a kickboxing champ, loses TKO before fleeing
A Florida mugger picked the wrong senior citizen to attack. The Palm Beach Post reports 68-year-old Steve Shepherd was limping to his car last week, a pulled muscle impairing his stride, when a mugger hit him in the head with a bottle and demanded his ...
When Clemson's Dabo Swinney handed his national championship-contending team to freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence in September, this is what the Tigers' coach had in mind. Lawrence threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns and No. 2 Clemson beat No. 3 Notre Dame 30-3 on Saturday ...
Child abuse rises when kids take home report cards on Fridays, U.S. study says
Child abuse increases the day after school report cards are released but only when kids get their grades on a Friday, a study in Florida suggests. The curious finding startled researchers, who had thought abuse might go up regardless of the specific day kids got ...
Florida woman reunited with daughter she thought died at birth 69 years ago
An 88-year-old American woman has been reunited with the daughter she was told had died at birth 69 years ago, The New York Times reported. Genevieve Purinton of Tampa, Florida, 69-year-old Connie Moultroup of Richmond, Vermont, for the first time this month, the newspaper said. Purinton ...
Don't expect Urban Meyer to coach in college again
After leading Utah to an unbeaten season in 2004, Urban Meyer had a choice to make. He could become the coach at Notre Dame — a dream job, he once called it — or he could be head coach at Florida. Meyer picked Florida because ...
Republican Rick Scott wins Florida Senate seat by just 10,000 votes as Bill Nelson concedes
Florida's departing Republican Gov. Rick Scott has narrowly won a U.S. Senate seat in a bitterly contested race with incumbent Bill Nelson, official results showed Sunday. Nelson conceded the seat he has held for three terms since 2001 after a machine and hand recount showed ...
Florida finishes first round of recounts in Senate and governor races
Florida election officials on Thursday completed an initial recount of ballots in close races for the U.S. Senate and governor's seat but did not immediately release updated statewide figures. The recount concluded after U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee, Florida, cleared the way to ...
Trump's baseless voter fraud allegations seen marring U.S. faith in elections
More than a dozen times in the past seven days, President Donald Trump has alleged, contrary to evidence, that the recount of Florida's elections for governor and the U.S. Senate has been marred by fraud. "Many ballots are missing or forged," he tweeted on Monday. ...
Trump urges Florida to halt law-mandated recount, hand races to Republicans
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Florida election officials to abandon recount efforts, declare his fellow Republicans the winners and, without evidence, cast doubt on vote tallies as state officials scrambled to review more than 8 million ballots by a Thursday deadline. Leads by ...
