The main house at Gordon Pointe spans 11,500 sq ft. The most expensive home for sale in the U.S. hit the market this week for $295 million. Gordon Pointe, as it’s called, is a roughly 9-acre compound in Naples, Florida, on the Gulf Coast, in an affluent enclave called Port Royal. The mega-listing includes a … Read more
Photo: San Mateo County Sheriff California police arrested a Miami man after he allegedly stole a small propellor plane, crashed it onto a beach in Half Moon Bay before leaving the scene. Listen, you can take the man out of Florida, but you cannot take the Florida out of the man. 2024 Porsche Cayenne S … Read more
Florida is really the gift that keeps on giving. The latest tasty news tidbit from the Sunshine State is a 1,000-pound World War II-era bomb was discovered at the Brooksville Tampa Bay Regional Airport, prompting the whole facility to be evacuated for a short time on February 6. Ryan Blaney On The Bond Between Driver … Read more
A Florida lawmaker wants the state to enact a “stand your ground”-style law against a scourge of what he describes as bears “that are on crack” kicking people’s doors down in the middle of the night. At a hearing last week held by the House Infrastructure Strategies Committee, Republican state Rep. Jason Shoaf urged his … Read more
Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) on Sunday got called out for routinely taking credit for delivering money to her district — after opposing the bills that provided that money. During an interview on CBS News Miami, host Jim DeFede asked Salazar about a ceremony she attended last month where she presented a check for $650,000 to … Read more
Florida has regained its status as the best state for retirees in 2024. That’s according to WalletHub’s latest “Best and Worst States to Retire” study. In 2023, Virginia took the top spot and knocked Florida down to No. 2. WalletHub used three main categories to rank the retirement friendliness of all 50 states: Affordability, which … Read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination earlier this week. It was the end of his less-than-year-long presidential bid, in which he has repeatedly attacked the LGBTQ+ community in the hopes of scoring political points with Republicans. When she saw the news that DeSantis was out of the race, Floridian … Read more
Students at Florida’s 12 public universities will be offered an American history class instead of sociology as an option in the general education core curriculum, the state university system’s board of governors announced Wednesday. This follows a similar move last week by Florida’s Board of Education, which banned the use of public funds for diversity, … Read more
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Police cleared the ousted chair of the Florida Republican Party of rape allegations on Friday, but said they have asked prosecutors to charge him with illegally video recording the sexual encounter he had with a female acquaintance. The Sarasota Police Department said in a statement that a review of a cellphone video Christian Ziegler made … Read more
