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Authorities take pictures of former state Senator Frank Artilesí car as they raid his home in Palmetto Bay on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.
State Democrats call for special election after arrests in sham candidate case
Democrats are calling the integrity of the election for Senate District 37 into question after an arrest affidavit detailed a scheme to plant a no-party candidate in the race to sway the outcome.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago partially closed by coronavirus outbreak
Former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago.
The club sent members an email saying the dining room and beach club were closed after staffers tested positive for COVID-19.
Gaming deal ‘is close,’ Desantis tells parimutuel leaders
Pat Rooney, president of the Palm Beach Kennel Club, far right, leads a group of gambling executives to the governor’s office on Thursday, March 18. Gov. Ron DeSantis invited officials from Florida’s 26 remaining parimutuels to meet with him and Senate President Wilton Simpson as they draft gambling legislation, including a measure to give a gaming permit to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.
For more than a decade, legislators have tried to update gambling laws. Could this be the year?
Florida bills would stop transgender athletes from playing women’s sports
Jeanette Jennings, mother of transgender teen advocate Jazz Jennings, speaks at a press conference in the Florida Capitol on Monday, February 3, 2020, against a bill that would make it a felony for doctors to provide minors with hormone therapy or to perform sex reassignment surgery.
“This is not about sports, this is about marginalizing and demonizing the transgender community in all aspects of life,” said one transgender advocate.

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  1. DeSantis proposes federal money for workforce education efforts
    1 hour ago• Politics
    File photo of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran.
  2. After 20 years, Florida Republicans look to ban ballot harvesting — again
    Yesterday• Politics
    Linda Bock, working with the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office, informs early voters of a mail ballot drop-off location outside of The Centre of Palm Harbor during early voting on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Palm Harbor.
  3. Florida ‘bed’ tax money pitched to combat flooding
    Yesterday• Politics
    A 2017 photo of Rep. Bryan Avila, R-Miami Springs, who is sponsoring a bill that would expand the way that tourist-development tax money can be used.
  5. Photos of migrant detention highlight Biden’s border secrecy
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    This photo provided by the Office of Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar shows detainees in a Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas.
  6. Concessions made to Bright Futures bill ahead of hearing
    Yesterday• Politics
    A bill that would alter the Bright Futures scholarship program is again poised to see changes as the bill's sponsor makes some concessions.
  7. Immigrants watch from around Tampa Bay as Congress debates their future
    Yesterday• Politics
    Poliana Conte, 40,came to the United States from Brazil illegally and works at a hospice in Ruskin. She hopes she gain legal status through new immigration legislation that includes a measure covering essential workers.
  8. DeSantis rips idea of COVID-19 ‘passports’ in Florida
    Yesterday• Health
    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., on Friday, March 5, 2021. (Alan Youngblood/Ocala Star-Banner via AP)
  9. Hundreds turned away after hearing they could get vaccine at Tampa church
    Yesterday• Health
    Hundreds of people too young to meet the state's criteria wait in line outside Keeney Chapel United Methodist Church on Sunday in hopes of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
  10. Florida took an aggressive approach to unemployment fraud. Was it worth it?
    Mar. 21• Politics
    FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, envelopes from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Reemployment Assistance Program are shown, in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
  11. GOP rallies behind voting limits: ‘An all-hands-on-deck moment’
    Mar. 20• Politics
    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration joint hearing March 3.
  12. Clearwater elections don’t require a majority to win. Council considers a change.
    Mar. 20• Clearwater
    Council member Hoyt Hamilton discusses a potential change to Clearwater's voting system on Thursday.
  13. Biden, Harris offer solace, denounce racism in Atlanta visit
    Mar. 19• Nation & World
    President Joe Biden speaks after meeting with leaders from Georgia's Asian-American and Pacific Islander community on Friday at Emory University in Atlanta, as Vice President Kamala Harris listens.
  14. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago partially closed by coronavirus outbreak
    Mar. 19• Nation & World
    Former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago.
  15. From Tampa Bay, journalist leads global fight against disinformation
    Mar. 19• Opinion
    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro wears a protective face mask as he flashes thumbs-up at supporters last year during a Brazilian flag retreat ceremony outside his official residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil.
  16. State Democrats call for special election after arrests in sham candidate case
    Mar. 19• Politics
    Authorities take pictures of former state Senator Frank Artilesí car as they raid his home in Palmetto Bay on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.
  17. 5 White House staffers lose jobs over drugs, marijuana use
    Mar. 19• Nation & World
    In this March 18 photo, the White House is shown in Washington. Five White House staffers have been fired because of their past use of drugs, including marijuana. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday "there were additional factors at play in many instances for the small number of individuals who were terminated."
  18. VP Kamala Harris to visit Jacksonville on Monday
    Mar. 19• Politics
    Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with women leaders in the labor community to discuss the American Rescue Plan, in the Vice President's ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
  19. Biden picks former Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida to lead NASA
    Mar. 19• Politics
    FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2018 file photo, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., attends a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. President Joe Biden has chosen Nelson, a former senator from Florida who flew on the space shuttle to lead NASA. Biden announced his intent Friday, March 19, 2021.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
  20. Publix has administered 1 million vaccine doses in Florida
    Mar. 19• Health
    Residents listen to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak at a press conference at a Publix Super Market in Ponte Vedra Beach on Jan. 13.
  21. Gaming deal ‘is close,’ Desantis tells parimutuel leaders
    Mar. 18• Politics
    Pat Rooney, president of the Palm Beach Kennel Club, far right, leads a group of gambling executives to the governor’s office on Thursday, March 18. Gov. Ron DeSantis invited officials from Florida’s 26 remaining parimutuels to meet with him and Senate President Wilton Simpson as they draft gambling legislation, including a measure to give a gaming permit to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.
  22. Florida House passes bill that would strip newspapers of legal ad revenue
    Mar. 18• Politics
    Racks of newspaper loaded onto a semi truck heading towards Pasco county at the Tampa Bay Times printing plant during its final press run on Saturday, March 6, 2021 in St. Petersburg. 
  23. Florida Senate passes bill to shield businesses from COVID-19 lawsuits
    Mar. 18• Politics
    Sen. Jeff Brandes sponsored the bill that would make it harder for Floridians to sue businesses, governments and health care companies for COVID-19-related claims.
  24. DeSantis gathers hand-picked doctors to help validate his COVID response
    Mar. 18• Health
    Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking here March 5 at an Ocala vaccination site, called together doctors who share his point of view on coronavirus prevention for a conference Thursday in Tallahassee. The conference comes a year after the outbreak of the pandemic.
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