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Florida, Utah, Iowa among states that have tripled daily ICE arrests since January: Report
As President Donald Trump continues his mission to carry out the biggest mass deportation in history, multiple reports show how much daily immigration enforcement arrests have ballooned nationwide. The administration has set its sights on...

Florida Pesticide Licenses: Aquatic
Florida is among the most highly regulated states when it comes to pesticide applications, offering 13 different types of pesticide licenses across more than 20 categories. This complex structure can make it challenging for applicators to...

Publishing Briefs: Gloria Trevi Gives Peermusic Deal a Boost, Plus Angry Mob Gets Makeover
Gloria Trevi re-upped her global publishing deal with Peermusic and signed with Peermusic Neighbouring Rights for worldwide (excluding the U.S.) collection. Peermusic has represented Trevi since 2007, expanding their deal in 2018 to include many...

Florida Python Challenge nears: To kill a python, leave your gun home
The challenge takes place from July 11-20 in designated South Florida locations. Participants compete for prizes, including $10,000 for removing the most pythons. Pythons must be killed humanely using specific approved methods. Guns, traps, and...

Report: Florida has tripled daily ICE arrests since Trump took office
The Trump administration is significantly increasing immigration enforcement arrests, with Florida's daily rate tripling compared to 2024. Florida, Texas and California have seen the highest number of arrests since Trump took office. While arrests...

Let Mamdani NYC win contribute to unity, not division in South Florida
The results of the recent mayoral election in New York City can be a powerful lesson for all of us in South Florida concerned with justice and dignity for all people. Zohran K. Mamdani – a Muslim, a democratic socialist, a supporter of Palestinian...

Virginia’s Flooding Crisis vs. Florida and Louisiana
Virginia leads the U.S. in coastal floods. That’s a fact. But how does it stack up to other flood-ravaged states like Florida and Louisiana? And what about the insurance side? Are companies keeping pace with the rising risks everywhere? Let’s...

Last Call for 7.10.25 – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida
Last Call – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot The Robinhood trading app is under investigation by Attorney General James Uthmeier for what the state’s top prosecutor says are allegations of violating the...

Florida’s New State Laws Hitting the Books This Summer
As their employees flock to Florida’s famous beaches, water parks, and pools this summer, Florida employers need to look out for a wave of new legislation that became effective on July 1, 2025. While over one hundred new laws are going into...
SEC college football stadiums rankings: Florida's Swamp is the toughest
They say college football means more in the SEC. They’re underselling it. It means everything. Marino Casem, a born and raised Southerner who coached at a few schools in the region, once said, “In the South, football is a religion, and Saturday is...

Ranking SEC stadiums, toughest to least: Can't top Florida's Swamp
They say college football means more in the SEC. They’re underselling it. It means everything. Marino Casem, a born and raised Southerner who coached at a few schools in the region, once said, “In the South, football is a religion, and Saturday is...

Zora Neale Hurston house preserved in Florida
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Florida’s higher ed makeover: Attacks, resistance and all-out war, with DeSantis leading the charge
By Michael Vasquez – Florida Trident In Florida, and across America, higher education is facing unprecedented attacks — affecting what subjects can be taught, how university presidents can be ousted, whether various institutions will lose federal...

Supreme Court Won’t Let Florida Enforce Law Making Illegal Immigration State Crime
The unsigned order included no reasons or noted dissents. Florida’s law, which was passed in February, makes it a crime to “knowingly enter or attempt to enter” the state after illegally entering the U.S., subject to nine months in prison for the...

Twin granddaughters of ex-Miami Herald publisher die in Texas floods
Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence were happy children who shared the kind of bond twins do, but the 8-year-old girls from Dallas were also different from each other. Hanna was the one with endless energy who wanted to be a chef and open a restaurant to...
This Forever Farmhouse In Florida Proves Blue And White Is A Timeless Combination
Carmel Brantley; Designer/Stylist: Kara Miller“Wide-open spaces and nature have always been of the utmost importance to me,” says Jupiter, Florida, designer Kara Miller, who spent her early childhood years on a sugarcane farm. So when she...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 7.9.25
Good Wednesday morning. A top o’ Burn birthday shoutout to Golden Rotunda award winner (I hear she might be up for a significant award in the next rankings), INFLUENCE 150er, incredible aunt and pet lover extraordinaire, Heather Turnbull of Rubin...

Florida Man Charged in $400K Union County Scam
UNION TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY — NorthcentralPA.com is reporting… A Florida man is facing felony charges for allegedly scamming a Union County resident out of $400,000 over several years. State police say 26-year-old Damali Alix Wallace of Miramar...

Last Call for 7.8.25 – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida
Last Call – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot The Free Speech Coalition dropped a lawsuit challenging Florida’s law requiring pornography publishers to verify the age of visitors. The move follows a U.S....

Unconventional relationship holds answers to violent Florida murder
In April 2018, in the sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town of Eastpoint, it appeared a killer had struck. “I received a call that a body was located .. off of Highway 98,” Lt. Ronnie Jones, from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, told “48 Hours”...