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FILE - In this March 5, 2021 file photo, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media as he visited the drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site at On Top of the World in Ocala, Fla., Repealing statewide mask mandates and criticizing the Biden administration’s unemployment-based formula for distributing billions in federal aid has put Republican governors and their approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic back in the spotlight. (Alan Youngblood/Ocala Star-Banner via AP)
DeSantis suspends debt collections for unemployment overpayments ‘indefinitely’
Thousands of Floridians have been issued the “stressful” notices, which are usually vague.
Trump won Florida, but online and at your door, his supporters are trying to force an audit
National and Florida groups are pushing officials to audit the 2020 election.
The push for a recount began months ago in states like Arizona, where Trump lost by a narrow margin. But the movement is now bleeding into states Trump won comfortably, including Florida.
Florida ended unemployment benefits early. Did people return to work?
Ron DeSantis speaks at a Monoclonal Antibody Treatment center at the Barnstorm Theater in The Villages on Wednesday, August 25, 2021.
The answer seems to lie somewhere between “the jury’s still out” and “no.”
Some Florida counties to pay more because of new election law
A poll worker verifies a Vote-by-Mail ballot as a voter uses the official ballot drop box setup at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center polling station on October 19, 2020 in Miami, Florida.
The law known as Senate Bill 90 changes how elections in Florida will be handled, including controversial changes involving ballot drop-off boxes and vote-by-mail ballots.
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  1. Bill Clinton released from California hospital
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    Former President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thank the medical staff as he is released from the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Orange, Calif., Sunday.
  2. Risky business: Some Capitol riot defendants forgo lawyers
    Yesterday• Politics
    Alan Hostetter speaks during a pro-Trump election integrity rally he organized at the Orange County Registrar of Voters offices Nov. 9, 2020, in Santa Ana, Calif. Hostetter is one of at least five people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, who have chosen to defend themselves in court, brushing aside federal judges’ repeated warnings about the risks of trying to navigate their high-stakes cases without an attorney. (PAUL BERSEBACH | The Orange County Register via AP)
  3. For 105 days, COVID’s death toll in Florida counties went missing
    Yesterday• Health
    Medical workers at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater work to stabilize a COVID-19 patient on Aug. 25. For 105 days this summer, the public could no longer find out how many people were dying of COVID in each Florida county.
  5. DeSantis suspends debt collections for unemployment overpayments ‘indefinitely’
    Oct. 15• Politics
    FILE - In this March 5, 2021 file photo, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media as he visited the drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site at On Top of the World in Ocala, Fla., Repealing statewide mask mandates and criticizing the Biden administration’s unemployment-based formula for distributing billions in federal aid has put Republican governors and their approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic back in the spotlight. (Alan Youngblood/Ocala Star-Banner via AP)
  6. Capitol cop who told Jan.6 rioter to hide evidence indicted, prosecutors say
    Oct. 15• Nation & World
    A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped to hide evidence of a rioter's involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  7. ‘Reckless’ words from teacher unions hurt recruiting, Florida leader says
    Oct. 15• Education
    Florida K-12 Chancellor Jacob Oliva, shown speaking to the State Board of Education in 2019, says teachers' messaging that schools aren't safe is 'reckless.'
  8. Florida ended unemployment benefits early. Did people return to work?
    Oct. 15• Politics
    Ron DeSantis speaks at a Monoclonal Antibody Treatment center at the Barnstorm Theater in The Villages on Wednesday, August 25, 2021.
  9. Trump won Florida, but online and at your door, his supporters are trying to force an audit
    Oct. 15• Politics
    National and Florida groups are pushing officials to audit the 2020 election.
  10. St. Pete City Council looks at early voting for 2023, pushes back on municipal marina
    Oct. 14• Elections
    Cracking is shown on both center beams of the St. Petersburg municipal marina's west end main walkway span. City officials displayed the photo during a presentation to City Council's public service and infrastructure committee on Thursday. Officials would like council members to approve ordering a cost estimate to see how much it would cost the city to redevelop the marina rather than outsourcing the job to a third party, like Safe Harbor Land Development.
  11. Crist says he’d legalize marijuana and expunge records as governor
    Oct. 14• Politics
    U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg, in July.
  12. Some Florida counties to pay more because of new election law
    Oct. 14• Politics
    A poll worker verifies a Vote-by-Mail ballot as a voter uses the official ballot drop box setup at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center polling station on October 19, 2020 in Miami, Florida.
  13. State health officials seek more funding to support growing marijuana industry
    Oct. 14• Business
    Florida health regulators are asking lawmakers for nearly $13 million to more than double the number of workers in the office that oversees medical marijuana issues.
  14. Bill would outlaw local mask mandates in Florida
    Oct. 14• Education
    Members of the Florida Senate fill the chamber during the 2020 legislative session. A Senate bill proposed for the 2022 session would make mask mandates illegal in the state.
  15. Florida lawmakers to limit public input before drawing redistricting maps
    Oct. 14• Politics
    The Florida Legislature's redistricting hearing in Orlando, at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre downtown, in 2011.
  16. Compare St. Petersburg mayoral candidates Ken Welch and Robert Blackmon on the issues
    Oct. 13• Elections
    Ken Welch and Robert Blackmon
  17. Tampa Bay companies ‘under review’ for allegedly violating Florida vaccine passport law
    Oct. 12• Health
    Florida businesses face fines of $5,000 per violation charge under a law blocking so-called "vaccine passports" signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis
  18. Florida fines county $3.5 million for mandating vaccines
    Oct. 12• Politics
    A healthcare worker receives a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami earlier this month.
  19. DeSantis on wife Casey’s breast cancer diagnosis: ‘We’ve got a road ahead’
    Oct. 12• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions while First Lady Casey DeSantis listens following a roundtable discussion regarding mental health at the downtown Tampa Firefighter Museum on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.
  20. DeSantis prediction of Florida monoclonal antibody shortage hasn’t come true
    Oct. 12• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to speakers talking about monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, at a news conference at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
  21. Miami police chief being fired after 6 months on the job
    Oct. 12• Florida
    Miami City police Chief Art Acevedo, shown here in March, has been fired six months into his stormy tenure.
  22. Charlie Crist touts justice reform for Floridians of color
    Oct. 11• Politics
    U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist.
  23. Florida seeks to dismiss schools’ challenge to prohibition on mask mandates
    Oct. 11• Politics
    Students, some wearing protective masks, arrive for the first day of school at Sessums Elementary School in Riverview in August.
  24. App designed to save lives not popular with Florida teachers
    Oct. 11• Education
    Broward County school superintendent Vickie Cartwright speaks at a Sept. 28 meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. The commission's chairperson, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said that only about five people in any given school use a new app designed to target the location of an emergency on campus. Cartwright said efforts are underway to dispel misconceptions about the app.
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