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The firefighter says a chief gave him a choice: go home and lose overtime pay or go to the bathroom and cut his hair. He chose to go home.
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Judge John Cooper ruled the law, set to take effect Friday, violates the right to privacy guaranteed in the Florida Constitution.
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Limayem has served as dean of the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida in Tampa for the past decade.
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Some said Florida's new civics standards downplay slavery and portray separation of church and state as a misconception.
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JWB Real Estate Capital bought two North Core properties, including a former church auditorium, for $8.39 million.
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Inflation, shipping costs and supply chain issues have pushed prices up by about 35%.
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CEO Michael Rubin is selling his NBA and NHL interests to facilitate adding the service.
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New lighting is being installed in about 35 spots to help keep turtle hatchlings from straying away from the water.
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Scramblers has 24 locations in Ohio and two in Michigan. The menu includes breakfast and lunch items, including omelets, egg dishes, pancakes, sandwiches, salads and more.
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The first of two family-owned, side-by-side North Jacksonville restaurants has reopened and the other soon will follow.
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The law, labeled by critics as "Don't Say Gay," restricts how schools can teach about sexual orientation and gender identity. The White House called the law discriminatory.
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Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis removed Dr. Lisa Gwynn from the Florida Healthy Kids Board for expressing concerns about COVID-19 vaccine access for kids younger than 5. She talks about why she's still worried.
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The Florida Supreme Court approved Gov. Ron DeSantis' request to impanel a grand jury to investigate issues such as smuggling undocumented children into the state.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law Monday that requires criminal and sexual-offender background checks for apartment-complex employees.
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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation on Friday approved an average 6.4% rate increase for homeowners with “multiperil” policies — by far the most-common type of policy.
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The bill would have done away with permanent alimony and set up maximum payments based on the duration of a marriage.
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The law, which restricts the way race-related issues are taught, could affect Title IX training programs.
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Gillum, along with state House candidate Sharon Lettman-Hicks, is accused of soliciting money with false promises and disguising it for Gillum's personal use.
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A federal judge is expected to decide this week whether to block a new state law that would restrict the way certain race-related concepts can be taught in public schools and in workplace training.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is considering a bill that would allow many people to stop paying alimony after they retire.
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Officials in Akron, Ohio, released video of the pursuit and shooting of Jayland Walker, 25. The police chief said officers tried to stop Walker's car for unspecified traffic and equipment violations.
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The protests have carried on for weeks since the leak of a draft of the court's eventual decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. State officials had previously called on federal law enforcement for help.
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The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.
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Parks across the country are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Fredrick Law Olmsted's birth. Olmsted designed a number of parks in the U.S., including New York's crown jewel, Central Park.
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NPR's Shannon Bond speaks to reporter Ryan Faircloth of The Star Tribune about the legalization of edibles and drinks infused with the cannabis ingredient THC in Minnesota.
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Many forest ecologists say the U.S. Forest Service is hampered by an outdated approach to prescribed fires, a key tool for reducing the threat of megafires made worse by climate change.
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Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, experts warn that prosecutions will increase for miscarriages, stillbirths and self-induced abortions.
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The largest city in the U.S. ranks 93rd in access to public restrooms. But a new effort "will allow those New Yorkers with the dignity of a place to go," Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine says.
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Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation's second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order allowing the procedure to resume in some cases.
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After a technical issue in the company's scheduling system reportedly dropped thousands of flights planned for this month, American Airlines said "the vast majority" of the trips had been restored.
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One week after the reversal of Roe v. Wade’s federal abortion protections, Florida is in a court battle over a new law restricting abortions to 15 weeks. Abortion supporters say a right to privacy enshrined in the state constitution protects the right to choose.
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