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TALHASSEE – Florida legislature is looking at changes to the voting initiative process after a fierce battle over two proposed amendments on abortion access and recreational marijuana last year. Opponents say the bill will integrate more power and special interests at Tallahassee’s hands. Advocates say the change will ensure the integrity of the process and maintain special out-of-state benefits. A constitutionally guaranteed right, Florida’s voting initiative process has long been used by groups to pass measures hampered by state lawmakers. Florida is how it won minimum wage of $15, medical marijuana and felony voters repairs. This process is one of…

Humans are very creative and very lasting.Take thieves, scams, scammers. As long as someone has dollars in their bank account, there are others who devise ways to suck up those dollars and claim them as their own.The Internal Revenue Service is with them. On the list of “Dirty Dorses” In the 2025 tax fraud, agents tell taxpayers how to protect themselves from fraud. It also warns people about how some taxpayers try to trick the IRS.The agency began publishing the Dirty Darth List in 2002 to notify and protect tax paying workers.Below are some schemes and scams to watch out…

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and a wide range of new management plans to address worsening conditions during work for more than a decade were rejected by Gov. Ron de Santis on Tuesday in response to complaints that would limit the state’s sovereignty.Desantis said in a one-page letter that the plan failed to pave the way for artificial coral reefs in the state’s waters, and that Florida managed its own wildlife.”As published, the rules and management plans abolish long-standing references to the sovereignty and right to control land within the state’s jurisdiction, as well as the state’s right to…

The former Canadian Olympic snowboarder wanted in the US for multiple fees due to alleged involvement in a multinational drug trafficking ring, has been added to the FBI’s list of most wanted fugitives.Ryan James Wedding is said to lead an organized crime group that has moved large amounts of cocaine from Columbia to Mexico, California, Canada and elsewhere in the United States.US authorities say the 43-year-old, born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, who competed in Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, lives in Mexico and is considered a fugitive.The US State Department offers a $10 million reward…

BANNEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Detectives stopped secret drug surgery Thursday, leading to the discovery of a neglected child and two dogs and arresting four people. According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, the SWAT team served as a search warrant in the 5000 block of Nutwood Avenue. A search for the residence, including four RVs and a modular home, led detectives to discover and seizure multiple firearms, methamphetamine, cannabis and various other drug-related devices. In one of the RVS, detectives say they discovered a child that appeared to be ignored, and the two dogs were both visibly weakened by skin…

Sunrise, Fla. — The president of Florida Panthers Hockey Operations & General Manager Birchit announced today that the club has acquired goaltender Carponen from the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for goaltender Chris Dryger. Kahkonen, 28, appeared in Winnipeg affiliate Manitoba Moose and 22 American Hockey League (AHL) games this season, recording 6-14-1 records, .885 save percentage, average and one shutout, and two AHL games for the Colorado Eagles. He also played in one NHL game in the Colorado Avalanche. The 6-foot-2, 217-pound native from Helsinki, Finland, appeared in 140 NHL games between Avalanche (2024-25), New Jersey Devils (2023-24), San Jose…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommendations for Covid-19 vaccines for children. DeSantis also called on the Florida Legislature to make a permanent national ban on mRNA mandates and add vaccination status protections to the patient’s Bill of Rights.”Learning by common sense and sound science, Florida has led ways of protecting patients’ rights, and now is the time to do more to ensure these protections and protect medical freedom,” DeSantis said. “Let’s make Florida a beacon of healthcare freedom, where all patients’ rights are forever enforced by the law.”The…

Endangered eda has died again in Florida waters, causing fear that the months-long deaths that killed more than 50 saws last year could be attacked again.As of Monday, six saws had died this winter, and a total of 22 reports showed signs of distress and spinning underwater, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee confirmed by WLRN. Biologists were able to perform necrops on five.Two dead fish were tagged while healthy to track movements, including a 13-foot woman found near a flamingo in Everglades National Park.The big saw was tagged from Cedarkey in 2023 by Florida State…

Discussions at the committee hearings were heated over the immigration issues and solutions.Congressional hearings often feature intense debate, pointing to differences between Democrats and Republicans, but lawmakers usually find common grounds for at least compromise and moving forward with the legislative process.That was not the case at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Wednesday. It featured four mayors of the country’s largest self-proclaimed sanctuary city.The four included New York Mayor Eric Adams, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. David Bier, director of Cato Institute immigration studies, was also a witness and appeared…

TALLAHASSEY – After 17 students and teachers were massacred in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, families begged Florida lawmakers for a change. Lawmakers walked through the bloody halls of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, and put together the bipartisan gun safety package that was then a GOV. Rick Scott signed the law and destroyed Florida from the National Rifle Association. Now, seven years after the shooting and the passage of the bill, Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to repeal one of its main tenants, the Red Flag Act.The goal of the law is to allow the court…