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Bean wants NASA headquarters in Florida

News Staff
Friday, July 11, 2025
U.S. Rep. Aaron Bean is leading a bipartisan group of Florida Members of Congress to urge President Trump to move NASA’s headquarters from Washington to Florida’s Space Coast. NASA’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., is set for demolition and currently has only 8% occupancy.

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Nassau schools No. 1 in Florida

News Staff
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
The Florida Department of Education released its 2024-25 school grades and performance results Monday, with the Nassau County School District ranked No. 1 among the state’s 67 public school districts. This is the first time Nassau County has ever achieved first place.
Workers restore power following Hurricane Helene in Madison County. News Service of Florida

Workers restore power following Hurricane Helene in Madison County. News Service of Florida

Regulators approve FPL storm costs

News Staff
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Customers of Florida’s largest power company will see a bump of about $12 in monthly bills next year to cover restoration costs from the 2024 hurricane season.
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Administration gets Florida flavor

News Staff
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump looked to his adopted home state as he quickly started to fill in his administration, with Floridians drawing key appointments and some gasps.
Florida Board of Governors. Submitted

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Board digs into college athlete pay

News Staff
Friday, November 1, 2024
State university-system leaders are trying to quickly educate themselves about how a tentative legal settlement involving compensation for athletes, including some no longer in school, might change college sports in Florida.
Democrat Daryl Parks and Republican Corey Simon debated Tuesday in a fiercely contested state Senate race. Photo by Mike Exline/News Service of Florida

Democrat Daryl Parks and Republican Corey Simon debated Tuesday in a fiercely contested state Senate race. Photo by Mike Exline/News Service of Florida

Simon, Parks spar on insurance, abortion

News Staff
Thursday, October 17, 2024
With voters already casting mail-in ballots, candidates in a hotly contested North Florida legislative race squared off on Tuesday as Democrats try to chip into Republicans’ supermajority in the state Senate.
Gov. Ron DeSantis discusses Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall early Thursday. Submitted photo

Gov. Ron DeSantis discusses Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall early Thursday. Submitted photo

Crews ready to go 'house to house'

News Staff
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
More than 1,400 urban search-and-rescue crew members — and more than 100 swift-water boats — were staged throughout the state in advance of Hurricane Milton’s expected landfall Wednesday night on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Gannon Woods, a member of Amelia Baptist Church, helps to clean up the church's parking lot Friday. Woods and others volunteered to clean up debris on the church's property after Hurricane Helene spread Tropical Storm force winds into Nassau County in the early hours of Friday morning. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader

Gannon Woods, a member of Amelia Baptist Church, helps to clean up the church's parking lot Friday. Woods and others volunteered to clean up debris on the church's property after Hurricane Helene spread Tropical Storm force winds into Nassau County in the early hours of Friday morning. Photo by Ashley Chandler/News-Leader

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Hellacious Helene

Ashley Chandler
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
In the late hours Thursday night, a monster of a storm smashed into Florida's Big Bend region, roaring inland causing deadly conditions across the southeast United States.
Florida State Capitol building, Tallahassee. File photo

Florida State Capitol building, Tallahassee. File photo

Judge urges fine in abortion waiting period case

News Staff
Friday, September 20, 2024
An administrative law judge Thursday said a physician should face a $10,000 fine and a reprimand after she did not comply in 2022 with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed.