TALLAHASSEE — With Democrats likening the measure to Jim Crow-era practices aimed at keeping Black people from voting, the state Senate on Monday passed an elections package that would make it harder for Floridians to cast ballots by mail. A single Republican — Jeff Brandes of St. Petersburg — crossed party lines to join Senate…
What drove a 4-year-old male red wolf to leave St. Vincent Island and swim to the mainland can only be surmised. Perhaps it was the excitement of the weekend, or a nagging curiosity, a feral drive towards a mysterious something out there he had to find. Perhaps it was his knowing that a 7-year-old female…
The overwhelming majority of residents over the age of 65 in Franklin and Gulf counties have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus, with numbers picking up in those as young as age 50. According to a release issued Friday by the Florida Department of Health covering both counties, Franklin County had completed vaccinations for 2,160…
Yes, they are going to dredge the Eastpoint Channel, and Two-Mile. But it hasnt been easy, and it’s still not clear when. Alan Pierce, the longtime county administrator who has been working with the Army Corps of Engineers in recent years to advance the countys pursuit of the dredging, vented his frustration with the process…
It wasn’t the same big shindig that the Eastpoint Volunteer Fire Department is used to, but the 20th annual charity rib cookoff, which the department sponsors every year the third week of March, still brought in much-needed funds to the department. Chief George Pruett said the pre-sale of Boston butts, corporate sponsorships and entry fees should…
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…
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…
Both Franklin and Gulf counties are pushing back against a state plan to shutter up to four state prisons, a plan spreading alarm throughout Floridas rural regions where correctional institutions have played an outsized role in providing jobs and supporting businesses for decades. If we no longer have any inmates, will we need to hire…
Franklin County’s unemployment numbers dropped a tad in February, but remain higher than they were one year ago.
According to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Florida Department …
Starting April 1 and lasting until May 15, the Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum will present a special exhibit on the most violent and costliest campaign of the war, the battle to take …
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