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Florida State Trustees Sue ACC for Mismanaging Media Rights and Imposing ‘Draconian’ Exit Fees

ByThe Times

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  — The Florida State University Board of Trustees today filed suit against the Atlantic Coast Conference in response to years of mismanagement that has left its member schools trapped in a deteriorating multi-media rights agreement while preventing them from joining other conferences because of “draconian” withdrawal penalties.  The suit, filed in Leon County…

Water deal might not end Apalachicola fight
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Water deal might not end Apalachicola fight

ByJim Saunders | News Service of Florida

Georgia and Alabama have reached a settlement aimed at ending a long-running water war, but environmental groups plan to continue a legal fight because of concerns about Northwest Florida’s Apalachicola River. A federal appeals court on Monday, Dec. 11 put on hold a case pitting Alabama and Georgia to allow time for the U.S. Army…

Mike Norvell Voted ACC Coach of the Year
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Mike Norvell Voted ACC Coach of the Year

ByThe Times

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 30, 2023 TALLAHASSEE – Florida State head coach Mike Norvell was voted the 2023 ACC Coach of the Year, it was announced Thursday. Norvell has led the Seminoles to a perfect 12-0 record, including 8-0 in the ACC, and the top seed for Saturday’s ACC Championship Game. He produced the seventh unbeaten regular…

Noles No. 5 in Latest CFP Rankings
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Noles No. 5 in Latest CFP Rankings

ByThe Times

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State was No. 5 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night. The Noles are No. 4 in the Coaches Poll and No. 5 in the Associated Press poll. “We’ve got great players in all three phases, and I think we’ve shown that throughout the course of this season,” head coach Mike…

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Jordan Travis Named Walter Camp Award Semifinalist

ByThe Times

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis was announced Tuesday as one of 10 semifinalists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award presented to the best player in college football. Travis is one of four quarterbacks and the only player from the ACC represented among the semifinalists. Travis, a redshirt senior from West Palm Beach,…

Abandoned water bottle helped lead to inmate capture
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Abandoned water bottle helped lead to inmate capture

ByDavid Adlerstein

When a Florida Department of Corrections officer spotted a man on a bicycle in Eastpoint Thursday morning, law enforcement officials thought he might be Robert Rutherford, the Franklin Correctional Institution inmate who escaped from a work camp detail in Apalachicola Monday morning. When they looked over the contents of a backpack the man left behind…

Trinity ordains its new priest
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Trinity ordains its new priest

ByDavid Adlerstein

From the very last pew of the overflowing sanctuary, Dot Hill raised her hand softly when the question was asked if any congregants had been present the last time Apalachicola’s Trinity Episcopal Church ordained a priest.  That ordination, in the 1838 sanctuary of what is now the second oldest continuously serving church in Florida, had…

UPDATE: Escaped inmate captured in Eastpoint
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UPDATE: Escaped inmate captured in Eastpoint

ByDavid Adlerstein

The search for a Franklin Correctional Institution inmate who escaped Monday from a work crew site in Apalachicola has ended. At about 6:30 p.m., Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith posted a video on Facebook of a handcuffed Robert Rutherford, 37, of Pasco County, in Eastpoint. Authorities have captured Franklin County escaped inmate 37-year-old Robert Rutherford….