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Florida -- Voters in Florida have approved amendment 2 which will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over a six-year period.
The amendment states that Florida will raise the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour on September 30,...
Two things you typically don't see today -- a mullet and kids outside playing having a great time.
The Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office recently placed a portable speed detector in a neighborhood and unlikely "suspects" decided to test it out.
In...
Leesburg, Florida -- A young woman who could have gotten a ride home found herself behind bars with a felony charge after she urinated in front of a deputy and attempted to bribe him.
When Lake County deputies discovered a...
On Monday, a judge ruled in favor of Florida’s largest teachers union stating that DeSantis' order to require schools to teach students in the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic is unconstitutional.
The decision comes after the Florida Education Association filed...
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said a man suffered several injuries after he ran over an iguana that darted into path.
Deputies said the 62-year-old Marathon man was riding his bike on the Crane Point Hammock path when the...
A Florida teen quit his job at a Publix after he violated company policy and handwrote BLM on his medical face mask, which is required to be worn during work hours. The message was written in magic marker.
Publix said...
OCALA, Fla.— DOH-Marion is reporting 315 cumulative cases of COVID-19 as of Monday. The most recent individuals confirmed to have the virus are:
27-year-old male from Ocala
45-year-old female from Ocala
54-year-old female from Ocala
55-year-old male from Dunnellon
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On June 11, 2020, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, located in Ocala, Florida, posted about a “drug” bust on Facebook.
A deputy with the sheriff’s office had pulled someone over and busted them with marijuana gummy edibles. The sheriff’s office...
Starting Friday, shoppers in Florida can avoid paying sales taxes while putting together disaster-preparation stockpiles for the 2020 hurricane season.
During this sales tax holiday period, qualifying items related to disaster preparedness are exempt from sales tax. The sales tax...
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As Florida slowly reopens, the Florida government and White House officials allegedly secretly hijacked Florida's COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard and forcibly removed Rebekah Jones, the woman who designed and oversaw the project.
When the...
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that beginning Monday, May 4, 2020, as part of phase one in reopening Florida, restaurants and stores will be allowed to open at 25 percent capacity.
For now, the reopening in phase one excludes Miami-Dade,...
As the start of this year’s mosquito season begins (as if it's not always mosquito season), Marion County residents can take comfort in knowing that the pesky insects cannot spread COVID-19.
It’s a question many Marion County residents have asked.
Dr....
Tallahassee -- In order to address the financial burden caused by COVID-19, the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has issued Emergency Order AHCA 20-002 to temporarily suspend nursing home and Intermediate Care Facility assessment payments for March 2020.
“The...
The website to apply for unemployment in Florida, connect.myflorida.com, is broken. You read correctly, broken.
The website, which cost taxpayers $77 million, keeps crashing because the website is not capable of handling a mass amount of traffic.
Legislators in Florida say...
The Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX), said, "To reduce the potential exposure of both drivers and employees to the COVID-19 virus, CFX is temporarily suspending cash collection for tolls, and shifting to license plate tolling, known as Pay by...
TALLAHASSEE — People ask the same question time, and time again.
Question
Please explain to me how this is any worse than any strain of the flu which we do have a shot for?
Answer
It is a little different from the seasonal...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – At Governor DeSantis’ direction, Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz issued an Emergency Order temporarily restricting visitation to nursing homes, assisted living facilities (ALFs), adult family-care homes, long-term care facilities, and adult group homes.
By...
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Health is responding to COVID-19. In an effort to keep Florida residents and visitors safe and aware of the status of the virus, the Department is issuing regular updates as information becomes available.
International...
The Florida Department of Health (Department) has announced there are two presumptive positive cases of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Florida.
At this time, both individuals remain in isolation. Despite these cases in Florida, the overall immediate threat to the...
A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that felons cannot be kept from voting simply because they failed to pay fines, fees, and restitution resulting from their cases.
This ruling has angered Republican sheriff's across Florida, as felons typically vote Democrat.
Julie...