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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Following the November election, Florida Democrats have seen lawmakers leave the political organisation. State Sen. Jason Pizzo, from South Florida, has switched to party affiliation. State Rep. Susan Valdez of Hillsboro County has switched to Republican Party. Another state legislator also switched after Valdez. The Florida Department of Education says that “pornography” books remain at Hillsboro County High School Library On Friday, during a stop in Jacksonville, Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed he had previously mentioned the status of Florida’s Democrats. “This party is dead throughout Florida,” DeSantis said. This is a similar claim made by Pizzo…
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (WFLA) – Like many other loyal Catholics, Louis Prevast saw with great hopes that white smoke would rise from the Vatican chimney. The difference between Prevost and everyone else was that his brother was a cardinal of the church and a chance to be elected Pope. Robert Prebust, American-born Pope Leo XIV “When they said Robert, I knew right away, Rob was just elected Pope,” Probst said. His brother, 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevast, was born in Chicago. He is now known to the world as Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in church history. “I feel…
TALHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – Last year’s hurricane left a mark in the area, destroying homes and businesses, and toresting the roof of Tropicana Field. We also saw a construction crane in downtown St. Petersburg collapse. In response, state lawmakers launched a “listening tour” to assess what the state did and where there was a shortage. Lawmakers have asked constituents and local governments what needs to change before the next hurricane hits. These conversations led to one major hurricane bill, which focused on crane safety, especially following the collapse of the St. Petersburg crane. “Residents everywhere felt very dissatisfied because they…
JEROME — Lab results linked one of three black bears killed by a wildlife officer in southwestern Florida into a fatal attack on a man and his dog a day ago, officials said.The necrosis results revealed that the 263-pound male bear contained partial bones of 89-year-old Robert Marquell, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee said in a statement. Tests showed that the same bear DNA was present in Markel’s body, in his home, and in his dog’s body.Wildlife officials have not explicitly said the bear was the one who killed Marquel, but a preliminary autopsy by Collier County Medical…
The bill lost all of its democratic support just before the vote and failed to win the 60 votes needed to move forward.WASHINGTON – On May 8, the US Senate did not advance legislation regulating “stablecoins” in the cryptocurrency market, taking a blow to bipartisan efforts widely supported by the industry.Guidelines and establishment of national innovation for the US Stablecoins (Genius) Act, sponsored by Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), aims to bring about a regulatory system for the Stablecoins market. Stablecoins are attractive to larger risk aversion investors, including advanced funds, sovereign funds, asset managers, and wealthy family firms. The bill,…
Patrick Whittle and Robert F. Bucati STONSINGTON, Maine (AP) — Virginia Olsen has been pulling lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades, watching the threat to the state’s lifeline industry mount. Olsen, part of the fifth generation of the family to make a living through lobster trade, said trade imbalances with Canada, strict regulations on fishing and fishing, and offshore wind farms towering like open water skyscrapers pose three threats. That’s why she was encouraged last month when President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging to restore American fishing to its previous glory. The order promised to shred…
Kennedy is looking for a solution for the outbreak of measles. Trump is threatening tariffs on foreign films. And the US offers self-extate cash incentives to illegal immigrants.Kennedy works to treat measles outbreaksRobert F. Kennedy Jr., the top US health official, has directed officials to find treatment for the outbreak of measles that appeared in Texas at the beginning of the year.This year, there have been a total of 935 cases nationwide, with three deaths and a 13% hospitalization rate.It was confirmed that measles was eliminated in the United States in 2000 and was eliminated by the World Health Organization…
By Anne d’Hynenzio and Didi Tang NEW YORK (AP) – President Donald Trump’s tariff crusades aim to do a number of foreign products, from Mexican European wine and car parts to films made overseas. Recently, the President’s Wandering Wrath found another rhetorical poster child, a toy doll. Trump argued that if taxes raise consumer prices it’s okay for kids to have two dolls (probably three or five) instead of 30 people. The social media reaction included his memes, depicted as a photo with a young Baron Trump’s child-sized Mercedes Convertible Grinch. “We’re not in full contact,” Jonathan Cathy, the CEO…
Previous Report: On May 5th, FWC officials made the first public update on a fatal bear attack that occurred earlier that morning. JEROME, Fla. (WFLA) – Partial ruins of an 89-year-old Florida man were found in one of Florida fish and wildlife officials arrested earlier this week following the attack by the first deadly bear in the state’s history. In a press release Friday, FWC officials said the preliminary findings confirmed that the archiving results include the remains of longtime Collier County resident Robert Markel, who died Monday morning, a 263-pound male bear. The bear’s DNA was found in the…
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida woman is now a multi-millionaire after winning the final top award from a $20 scratch-off ticket. The Florida lottery announced Friday that 54-year-old Lucinda Joseph Run has claimed a $5 million award from a $5,000,000 crossword cash scratch game at Tallahassee’s lottery headquarters. Joseph Run purchased a victory ticket at Gate Oil Company, located at 60 Airport Center Drive in Jacksonville. More Florida Lottery Stories: A Florida woman buys a $50 scratch-off at Southernpa and then sells $20 scratch-off tickets for sale at convenience stores, and the final $5 million prize money worth $5…