The News Service of Florida
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The proposed rules include a lottery-style permitting process, up to 187 bears being killed in four areas of the state, and guidelines to encourage hunters to kill males. -
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says the state's housing capacity for the immigration effort is "a drop in the bucket." -
A federal judge found James Uthmeier in civil contempt because of a letter he sent to law enforcers after she ordered a halt to enforcement of a new state immigration law. -
A previous decision backed the Leon County district in a dispute about a student wanting to express a gender identity and use pronouns the child's parents didn't support. -
The Florida Supreme Court says a potential class-action lawsuit involving fees paid for on-campus services during UF's pandemic shutdown can move forward. -
A class-action lawsuit alleges that people being held at the immigrant detention center in the Everglades "effectively have no way to contest their detention." -
Tribe members are trying to join a lawsuit over the immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. It neighbors Tribe villages in the Big Cypress National Preserve. -
A federal appeals court has rejected an attempt to shield the school board members from testifying about removing or restricting access to books in Escambia school libraries -
In 2022, Florida created two programs to help property insurers set up critical backup programs. A new law essentially puts money back in the state's coffers. -
Pulitzer Prize board members want to halt a defamation lawsuit filed after the board refused to rescind a 2018 award to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
