Florida School Safety Bill Heads To House
The Florida Senate narrowly passed a bill that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools, now it's time for the House.
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The Florida Senate narrowly passed a bill that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools, now it's time for the House.
Florida lawmakers are scrambling to pass new gun legislation for the first time in more than a decade, after the Parkland school shooting.
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It was an odd day in Tallahassee as lawmakers scrambled to agree on what to do about the ongoing issue of guns.
Elected officials are hard at work inside Florida's capital.
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Florida Senate to hold rare Saturday session to debate a school safety measure mired in controversy over allowing armed teachers.
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The students spent the day meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. They're survivors of the school shooting nearly two weeks ago which sparked a national debate on gun control.
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A teen is under arrest after he reportedly threatened to kill students and had a pipe bomb in his home.
Fathers of two of the students killed in the Parkland school massacre urged legislators to do something to keep their children safe.
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino joked that if someone does pay $2 million for a ticket to the World Cup final, "I will personally bring him a hot dog and a Coke."
The city set up several sandbag distribution sites and will have them throughout the season.
Venezuela's government says it has deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro to face judicial proceedings in the U.S. less than three years he was pardoned by President Joe Biden.
Napoleon Solo hustled to first place at the 151st running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, coming out on top against 13 other horses.
"Survivor" 48 and 50 contestant Joe Hunter believes his sister Joanna, whose death was ruled a suicide, was murdered. He and their mother are working to be Joanna's voice and advocate for others who have experienced domestic violence.
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In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
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The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
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State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, leader of the Food and Drug Administration division responsible for regulating prescription and over-the-counter drugs, is leaving her post, a senior FDA official confirmed.
A New York native is among 16 American passengers who are quarantining in Nebraska after being on the cruise ship that is at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
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Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
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The Library of Congress revealed this year's list of 25 recordings to be preserved for future generations on the National Recording Registry.
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