Abortion rights advocates in Florida have officially collected enough signatures to put a pro-choice amendment on the ballot in November. The state’s Division of Elections reported that the petition to put abortion on the ballot has received 911,029 verified signatures, as of Friday morning. The state requires 891,523 signatures for an amendment — a big … Read more
Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest … Read more
A year after Ron DeSantis led Donald Trump in some 2024 presidential primary polls, and with just weeks to go before the first ballots are cast, the Florida governor is already explaining how Democrats conspired to stop him: by repeatedly charging the coup-attempting former president with breaking the law. DeSantis’ campaign and super PAC have … Read more
The driver was rushed to a hospital but was back with his family for the holidays. Firefighters in Florida, US, on Saturday rescued a truck driver who was caught in wreckage and left dangling from an overpass over a busy highway. The dramatic rescue was caught on camera, a video of which was shared on … Read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday said the U.S. government will not pay for COVID boosters if he gets elected president in 2024. “Certainly we’re not going to fund them,” DeSantis told “ABC News Live Prime.” His comments came after Florida advised residents under age 65 to skip the updated COVID-19 vaccine this fall, … Read more
A Florida man and his three adult sons will serve multiple years in prison after selling a toxic, industrial bleach as a “miracle” treatment and cure for COVID-19, a federal judge ruled Friday. Mark Grenon, 66, and his son, Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to defraud the government. … Read more
FILE – In this Aug. 7, 2015 file photo, Philip Esformes arrives at the 15th Annual Harold and Carole Pump Foundation Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, in Los Angeles. Rob Latour | Invision | AP The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes, whose … Read more
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YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) — A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited patch of paradise about a mile off the coast of this little Gulf Coast town. Pelicans divebomb nearby into the cool waters of Florida’s Withlacoochee Bay and the open view westward holds the … Read more
