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The firefighter says a chief gave him a choice: go home and lose overtime pay or go to the bathroom and cut his hair. He chose to go home.
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Judge John Cooper ruled the law, set to take effect Friday, violates the right to privacy guaranteed in the Florida Constitution.
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Limayem has served as dean of the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida in Tampa for the past decade.
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Some said Florida's new civics standards downplay slavery and portray separation of church and state as a misconception.
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JWB Real Estate Capital bought two North Core properties, including a former church auditorium, for $8.39 million.
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Inflation, shipping costs and supply chain issues have pushed prices up by about 35%.
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CEO Michael Rubin is selling his NBA and NHL interests to facilitate adding the service.
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New lighting is being installed in about 35 spots to help keep turtle hatchlings from straying away from the water.
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Scramblers has 24 locations in Ohio and two in Michigan. The menu includes breakfast and lunch items, including omelets, egg dishes, pancakes, sandwiches, salads and more.
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The first of two family-owned, side-by-side North Jacksonville restaurants has reopened and the other soon will follow.
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The law, labeled by critics as "Don't Say Gay," restricts how schools can teach about sexual orientation and gender identity. The White House called the law discriminatory.
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Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis removed Dr. Lisa Gwynn from the Florida Healthy Kids Board for expressing concerns about COVID-19 vaccine access for kids younger than 5. She talks about why she's still worried.
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The Florida Supreme Court approved Gov. Ron DeSantis' request to impanel a grand jury to investigate issues such as smuggling undocumented children into the state.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law Monday that requires criminal and sexual-offender background checks for apartment-complex employees.
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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation on Friday approved an average 6.4% rate increase for homeowners with “multiperil” policies — by far the most-common type of policy.
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The bill would have done away with permanent alimony and set up maximum payments based on the duration of a marriage.
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The law, which restricts the way race-related issues are taught, could affect Title IX training programs.
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Gillum, along with state House candidate Sharon Lettman-Hicks, is accused of soliciting money with false promises and disguising it for Gillum's personal use.
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A federal judge is expected to decide this week whether to block a new state law that would restrict the way certain race-related concepts can be taught in public schools and in workplace training.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is considering a bill that would allow many people to stop paying alimony after they retire.
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Leisure travel has bounced back this year, and that means particularly big crowds over three-day holiday weekends.
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Elida Lozano remembers her uncle, Gerald Thomas, who died of COVID-19 in December 2021. Thomas loved listening to music and encouraged Lozano to go to college.
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A college sports seismic shakeup is underway with UCLA and the USC bolting the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten. The move consolidates power between two super conferences and portends more changes.
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With gas and airline prices at record highs — and the airline industry in turmoil — travelers are facing more obstacles than usual over the busy holiday weekend.
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Three recent SCOTUS rulings have been celebrated by an extreme far right wing pushing conservative Christian values. Some see the decisions as evidence this ideology has found legitimacy on the bench.
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The suspected driver of the truck packed with migrants, including 53 who died earlier this week in San Antonio, was unaware that the air conditioning unit had failed, according to court documents.
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Teacher Arnulfo Reyes was inside a Robb Elementary classroom when the Uvalde shooting began. He was repeatedly shot and spent more than a month in the hospital. Now, he's recounting what happened.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democratic governor of New Mexico, about Friday's meeting with President Biden regarding the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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The Supreme Court's ruling that curbs the power of the EPA will slow its ability to respond to the climate crisis, but "does not take the EPA out of the game," according to its administrator.
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President Biden met with a group of Democratic governors on how to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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One week after the reversal of Roe v. Wade’s federal abortion protections, Florida is in a court battle over a new law restricting abortions to 15 weeks. Abortion supporters say a right to privacy enshrined in the state constitution protects the right to choose.
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