Tougher boating safety laws backed by Florida lawmakers
An effort to impose stricter penalties on reckless boaters, spurred by a 2022 crash in the Florida Keys that resulted in the ...
Florida’s GOP lawmakers back ‘Gulf of America’ change
Florida lawmakers took the first steps Tuesday to wipe away the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials.
Fugitive accused of escaping Puerto Rico prison 40 years ago arrested in Florida, cops say
Jorge Milla-Valdes was serving a robbery sentence when he escaped prison in 1987, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s ...
Florida weighs breaking with American Bar Association over DEI rule
Citing an American Bar Association diversity mandate for law schools, Florida is considering dropping a requirement that ...
Republicans in Florida’s Capitol restart push to lower the gun-buying age to 18
Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day ...
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Florida gun rights groups push to repeal the ban on selling firearms and ammo in a local emergency
"And of course, making sure that we’re not under the thumb of overbearing local government declaring an emergency to take ...
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Judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump’s executive order seeking to punish law firm Perkins Coie
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's administration Wednesday from enforcing portions of an executive order ...
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Florida lawmakers consider creating statewide registry of animal abusers
State lawmakers are looking to establish an animal abuse registry. SB 494 would require the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website the names of people who have been convicted of ...
Florida Justices Study Split from ABA Law School Accreditation
Florida became the first state to signal a potential break from American Bar Association accreditation of law schools ...