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The Rules Committee of the Jacksonville City Council voted down legislation Tuesday to hold a public referendum on whether to remove all historical markers from public places.
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A change of plea hearing for the longtime Democratic powerhouse has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday.
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Retail brokers say the grocery planned at One Riverside in Brooklyn illustrates how hot the Downtown market is.
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The judge ordered election officials to begin using a map that preserves a Black congressional district in North Florida.
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The Northside Coalition of Jacksonville organized a rally Monday to mourn the dead in Buffalo and to call again for the removal of Confederate monuments.
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The St. Johns County Board of Commissioners is deciding whether to waive its own rules to allow two developments to move forward despite the presence of a bald eagle nest in the area.
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Scott Matthew Yotka made photos and a video of himself sexually abusing two young children, then shared them with an undercover FBI agent online, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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District attorneys say the guide is being modified to comply with Florida's new Parental Rights in Education law — dubbed by critics as "Don't Say Gay."
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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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Transformco Properties is targeting the sites for redevelopment with warehouse, industrial and retail as possibilities for the Regency location.
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Lee has guided elections in a state with a history of election controversies. While many states stumbled through the 2020 elections, Florida had relatively few problems.
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The state Department of Children and Families announced that is ending the OUR Florida program, a federally funded rent and utility assistance program.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure into law Monday to honor the 100 million people, he says, who have fallen victim to communist regimes around the world. The observance will be added to public school curriculums.
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The decision will almost certainly keep in place for this year’s elections the controversial 2021 law that created additional hurdles for voters to cast ballots by mail.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has approved a rule change that will extend what had largely been nighttime alligator hunting — between 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. — to 24 hours during the season.
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On the recommendation from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the State Board of Education appointed a lawmaker who led several of the governor's education initiatives through the Legislature.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday he expects the state Legislature to pass what is known as “constitutional carry" — the right to carry a gun without a permit.
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Sen. Jennifer Bradley of Fleming Island, the bill's sponsor, said the state needed to end subsidies for people with rooftop-solar systems. Opponents contended the measure would cripple the rooftop-solar industry.
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The governor is calling legislators to Tallahassee on May 23 to address problems that have led to homeowners losing coverage and facing soaring premiums.
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The Florida Prepaid College Board is urging families to lock in the future cost of college with a Florida 529 Prepaid Plan. The program is the largest and the longest-running prepaid college program in the nation, and for the first time ever it offers families an incentive for enrollment.
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The community in Buffalo, New York, is holding vigils to honor the victims of Saturday's shooting. President Biden traveled there Tuesday to talk with the families of the victims.
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Clinics, in states where abortion will remain legal even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, worry about the influx of women traveling to their states. Will they be able to accommodate them all?
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There have been two mass shootings in New York since April. NPR's Rachel Martin asks gun control advocate Nick Suplina, if tougher gun laws would have made a difference.
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NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
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The virus hit Whidbey Island early in 2020, and photojournalist Lynn Johnson was there. A million deaths later, we return to see how the pandemic has subtly but indelibly altered life there forever.
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Jillian Hanesworth says what her city needs right now is honest conversations about systemic racism, the history of segregation, redlining and highway construction that hurt Black neighborhoods.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kristy Ironside, a Russia historian at McGill University, about the significance of McDonald's leaving Russia.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who appeared in Buffalo with President Biden after the mass shooting, about gun violence and extremism in the state.
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Five states hold primaries Tuesday, with Senate races in Pennsylvania and North Carolina getting top billing.
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The first recorded sighting of a river otter in the Detroit River in more than 100 years is an indicator that the environment is improving.
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