Florida House backs Parental Rights in Education law expansion
The Florida House on Friday took a step toward expanding a controversial 2022 law that prevents instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in early school grades, approving a measure that would broaden the prohibition through eighth grade.
52 years after capture, orca Lolita may return to Pacific
More than 50 years after the orca known as Lolita was captured for public display, plans are in place to return her from the Miami Seaquarium to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest — where a nearly century-old, endangered whale believed to be her mother still swims.
Florida attorney general says abortion precedents ‘clearly erroneous’
As lawmakers consider barring abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject more than three decades of legal precedents that have protected abortion rights in the state.
College ends partnership with Florida school over ‘David’ issue
A Michigan college will no longer partner with a Florida charter school after the school's principal resigned due to complaints sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a Renaissance art lesson that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture.
How Disney stripped power from Florida Gov. DeSantis’ special district board
On Feb. 8, several dozen spectators took their seats inside the administrative offices of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, formerly known as Reedy Creek Improvement District, to attend a previously-scheduled public meeting of the special taxing district’s board of supervisors.
Insider extra: Orange-Osceola prosecutor pursues new fingerprint analysis in Tommy Zeigler case
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is seeking to examine decades-old fingerprint evidence in the case of Tommy Zeigler, a Winter Garden man who’s been on Florida’s Death Row since a judge sentenced him for the 1975 quadruple murder of his wife, in-laws, and a customer inside his family’s furniture store.
State Attorney Worrell seeks new fingerprint exams in Tommy Zeigler case
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is seeking to examine decades-old fingerprint evidence in the case of Tommy Zeigler, a Winter Garden man who’s been on Florida’s Death Row since a judge sentenced him for the 1975 quadruple murder of his wife, in-laws, and a customer inside his family’s furniture store.
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