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TALLAHASSEE — Business groups are raising privacy concerns after state regulators requested detailed data on Floridians' prescription drugs, including patients' names and dates of birth and their doctors. The Office of Insurance Regulation is demanding the unusual trove of data from pharmacy benefit managers — health care industry middlemen...
Deputies say a man and his family were held at gunpoint in a terrifying home invasion in South Florida. The homeowner is a jewelry store owner with an active social media presence.
A relentless barrage of violent tornadoes, raging wildfires, and blinding dust storms has unleashed catastrophic destruction across the central and southern United States, leaving at least 33 people dead and communities shattered. Now, as the deadly storm system barrels eastward, Florida is bracing for impact. From Missouri to Mississippi, the...
A 71-year-old Cuban national has been arrested in Florida on charges of immigration fraud, with allegations of ties to Cuban intelligence. Tomas Emilio Hernandez Cruz was taken into custody Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in collaboration with the FBI. The arrest followed an investigation into fraudulent claims...
The Florida Legislature is once again trying to push through legislation that would take away the rights of area citizens and local government to have any voice in the management of rural and agricultural lands. It is crucial that citizens contact their legislative members and demand that these egregious measures be stopped immediately.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution secured a 20-year prison sentence for a fentanyl dealer who supplied other drug trafficking organizations. According to the investigation, law enforcement authorities identified Jazzmeen Underdue Montanez as the highest-ranking member of a Central Florida drug trafficking organization that trafficked in...
The news coming out of the Trump administration has been rapid-fire and shocking. Trade wars. Mass layoffs. Constant chaos. It’s designed to exhaust us — to make us so numb to the news that it starts to feel normal. It isn’t working. In fact, it’s backfiring. Americans are so ticked off about the direction Republicans are taking our country that the National Republican Congressional Committee is telling its members to stop hosting town halls in their districts — because Democrats, independents, and yes, even some Republicans, are turning out and speaking up about the damage that the Trump Administration...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently marked the groundbreaking of the I-75 expansion adding over 31 miles of new auxiliary lanes, from State Road 44 in Wildwood to State Road 326 in Ocala. This latest Moving Florida Forward project has been fully funded and is beginning 10-15 years ahead of schedule.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Get ready for an action-packed day of weather in east Central Florida!. [SEE THE LATEST WEATHER ALERTS IN YOUR AREA BY CLICKING HERE]. We’ve got windy, warm conditions to start the day with showers and thunderstorms rolling in later this afternoon and evening. Some of...
