Redistricting Rewrite Before Florida Senate Panel
The Florida Senate Reapportionment Committee is going back to work Tuesday to create yet another new redistricting map.
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The Florida Senate Reapportionment Committee is going back to work Tuesday to create yet another new redistricting map.
Five days after wrapping up their second session, lawmakers are back in Tallahassee to take a second shot a legislative redistricting.
In a pre-emptive move, the Florida Legislature has filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Washington, D.C., in case the Justice Department rejects its redistricting plans.
Florida legislators will return to the Capitol on Wednesday, less than a week after the final day of the regular session after Gov. Rick Scott called a 15-day extraordinary session so lawmakers can redo redistricting.
Just hours before adjourning the 2012 session of the Florida legislature, lawmakers learned they will barely have time to go home and see the kids before heading back to Tallahassee, after Gov. Scott called a 15-day extraordinary session beginning Wednesday to deal with a redistricting plan rejected by the Florida Supreme Court.
The Florida Supreme Court issued a mixed ruling Friday over plans to redistrict the Florida House and Senate.
The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over redistricting maps the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has drawn for itself, less than two weeks before the March 9 deadline for the justices to rule.
The next stop for the Legislature's once-a-decade redistricting plans will be a Tallahassee courtroom after Governor Rick Scott signed the plans Thursday afternoon.
The bill hasn't even been signed by Governor Rick Scott yet, but lawsuits have already been filed over the legislature's once-a-decade redistricting maps.
The maps that will change the face of Florida politics for the next decade by re-writing Florida legislative and congressional districts are up for votes Friday in the Florida House.
State economists said Thursday that there should be modest growth in tax collections this year, but not nearly enough to make a difference with the state's nearly $2 billion deficit.
Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos opened the 2012 legislative session Tuesday by warning lawmakers that budget cuts are coming to even the most "beloved" programs.
The 2012 Florida Legislative session begins in earnest Tuesday, but, it may be a lean year for many major policy changes as candidates begin their push for re-election.
The House and Senate committees tasked with redrawing the state's political boundaries each took a step closer to approving new legislative and congressional maps.
Most people know that you must be a US Citizen to vote, but apparently, that message missed one Central Florida state legislator. A member of the committee that is overseeing the drawing of new congressional districts, he's demanded the process be held up until it's certified hispanic voters there are legal.
Florida's increasing population may mean the state could pick up two more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, early projected figures from the U.S. Census bureau shows.
Whether you've lived in Florida for your entire life or you're new, having a plan in place is the best way you can stay safe.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said they arrested 38-year-old Jamie Allan Koval, of Big Pine Key, on Wednesday evening.
The proposal comes from Google's life sciences company, Verily, through its Debug mosquito-control program.
The Senate will soon hold what's expected to be a marathon vote series as Republicans seek to fund immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security without help from Democrats.
Drier air starts to arrive in South Florida on Friday and continues to move in for the weekend. Rain chances will also drop significantly.
Whether you've lived in Florida for your entire life or you're new, having a plan in place is the best way you can stay safe.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said they arrested 38-year-old Jamie Allan Koval, of Big Pine Key, on Wednesday evening.
The proposal comes from Google's life sciences company, Verily, through its Debug mosquito-control program.
The Senate will soon hold what's expected to be a marathon vote series as Republicans seek to fund immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security without help from Democrats.
Hurricane preparedness supplies and resources will be distributed at four South Florida locations on June 6 to help families get ready for hurricane season.
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.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
The Senate will soon hold what's expected to be a marathon vote series as Republicans seek to fund immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security without help from Democrats.
At least 207 people have been killed since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in September.
The Southern Poverty Law Center asked a judge to consider sanctioning federal prosecutors, after the DOJ shared an unsigned and unstamped copy of a superseding indictment with members of the media.
Senate Republicans moved forward with a package to fund the Department of Homeland Security's immigration agencies Wednesday.
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Commissioners voted to allow the review, saying if that was the only way to move the project - designed to help people with mental illnesses caught in the criminal justice system - then so be it.
Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in planning and orchestrating the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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The head of the World Health Organization says Ebola has killed at least 7 people in Congo, but the U.N. agency says it knows the epidemic "is much larger."
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says risks from the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda are "high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level."
The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put world health authorities on alert.
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A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
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