Florida lawmakers pass $112.1 billion budget to end session
Florida lawmakers passed a record $112.1 billion budget Monday to end a legislative session dominated by fierce debates about issues such as education, abortion and immigration.
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State House to Battle Over Education Proposals
TALLAHASSEE The Florida House could be poised to pass two fiercely debated bills that would place restrictions on how issues about race, gender identity and sexual orientation are taught in
U.S. Supreme Court to weigh Florida Medicaid fight
TALLAHASSEE The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take up a dispute about how much money Floridas Medicaid program should be able to recoup after a legal settlement involving a Lee
Vaccination rates slowing for adults and children
COVID-19 vaccination rates lag in vast swaths of rural Florida compared to the rest of the state — a pattern that also has been seen in other areas of the country, a new report shows. Neither Franklin nor Gulf counties are immune. The report, released Friday by the state Department of Health, said 55 percent…
Court: FCI inmate can seek punitive damages
In a case that has drawn interest from a wide range of civil-liberties groups, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that a state inmate can seek punitive damages in a lawsuit that alleged threats by guards at Florida Correctional Institution violated his First Amendment rights. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Conraad…
Supreme Court shuts out Florida 9-0
TALLAHASSEE — After years of legal battling, the U.S. Supreme Court last week unanimously rejected a lawsuit in which Florida argued Georgia has used too much water in a river system shared by the states. The 12-page ruling dismissed the lawsuit that Florida filed in 2013 after the oyster fishery collapsed in Franklin Countys Apalachicola…