TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trying to place Mothers for Liberty cofounder Tina Descovich on the Florida Fee on Ethics for the second time. DeSantis beforehand appointed Descovich to the board in 2023, however in a uncommon occasion of defying the governor’s needs, the Republican-dominated Florida Senate shot it down the next 12 months. Lakeland woman who said ‘delay, deny, depose’ in call to insurance company has charge dropped The Florida Fee on Ethics “serves because the guardian of the requirements of conduct for officers and workers of Florida and its political subdivisions,” in line with…
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die subsequent month by a firing squad. He could be the primary U.S. inmate shot to dying in an execution in 15 years.Sigmon is scheduled to die March 7. On Friday, he turned the primary South Carolina inmate to decide on the state’s new firing squad over deadly injection or the electrical chair.Solely three inmates within the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All have been in Utah, with the final one happening in 2010.Sigmon, 67, can be strapped to a chair and have a…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you’re on the lookout for one thing to do by your self and even with your entire household this weekend, the world’s largest bounce home is again in Jacksonville.The Massive Bounce America discovered a brand new house in Jacksonville. It moved to Westside Golf Heart on Parrish Cemetery Highway after being at Riverfront Plaza downtown for a few years.Numerous new issues are new this yr apart from the placement.Seven points of interest are featured this time. Troy Wheeler, who’s the tour supervisor, says one of many largest enhancements is the large fort enlargement.“There may be going…
Associated video: The Bradenton Space River Regatta kickoff in 2024. Bradenton, Fla. (WFLA) — A site visitors advisory has been issued for Feb. 21-23, resulting from a number of occasions in Downtown Bradenton and the Bradenton Riverwalk space. On Friday, Feb. 21 the River Regatta opening evening will begin at 5:15pm at Rossi Park, following with a drone and fireworks present at 7:15. The Rossi Park car parking zone will likely be closed to the general public beginning at 5 a.m. and can stay closed until Sunday. The car parking zone can be utilized by VIP parking allow holders. LIVE:…
NEW YORK – For a lot of filmmakers, the Oscars are a pipe dream. However not as a result of they assume their films aren’t ok.The Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, for example, knew his native nation was extra more likely to jail him than submit his movie for the Academy Awards. Iran, like another international locations together with Russia, has an official authorities physique that selects its Oscar submission. For a filmmaker like Rasoulof, who has overtly examined his nation’s censorship restrictions, that made the Oscars out of the query.“A variety of unbiased filmmakers in Iran assume that we’d by…
U.S. District Decide Christopher Cooper determined he couldn’t grant a movement from unions representing the employees to quickly block President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers. He did, nonetheless, acknowledge the chaos attributable to Trump’s blitz of second-term govt actions.Here is the most recent:Chinese language Vice Premier expresses ‘solemn concern’ over tariffs in video name with US Treasury SecretaryChinese language Vice Premier He Lifeng has expressed “solemn issues” to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent concerning the Trump administration’s imposition of an additional 10% tariff on imports from China.The feedback got here in a video name that was Bessent’s first…
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Pups Pub neighborhood is mourning the lack of a veteran from Tampa. Trevor Tackett labored as a protection contractor when the aircraft he was in, crashed within the Philippines. Tackett and three others had been on a surveillance mission on the time. None of them survived. Owners of Bradenton cabinet business convicted for embezzling over $310K in customers’ money Alex Wright mentioned reminiscences of Tackett echo by means of the partitions at Pups Pubs in Tampa, a enterprise he and Trevor created collectively”We shaped a brotherhood throughout our time within the Air Power,” Wright mentioned.…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a “merciless and malicious violation” of the ceasefire settlement after a physique that Hamas launched as a part of the deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two younger boys, because the militants had promised.The incident has thrown the way forward for the delicate ceasefire into query. Six extra dwelling hostages are scheduled to be launched Saturday as a part of the tenuous ceasefire that has paused over 15 months of struggle.In an announcement Friday, Hamas stated it will “conduct…
WASHINGTON – The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda within the Senate, however the late-night debate encompassed a lot extra.Democrats used the in a single day session that ended early Friday morning as a platform for his or her outrage over what President Donald Trump has wrought throughout his first month in office, and their warnings of what’s nonetheless to return.From the billionaire Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity slicing through the federal workforce to Trump’s assaults on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the GOP plan to extend tax breaks including for the wealthy and cut safety net…
CHANDLER, Texas (KETK) — An aged Florida couple seems to have been dropped off at an East Texas resort after members of the family determined they “couldn’t stick with them.” The Chandler Police Division mentioned they acquired a name of an aged couple who gave the impression to be misplaced wandering round a resort. A resort worker, Rylee Taylor, mentioned the lady was sporting a nightgown, a hospital band and no sneakers. St. Petersburg family left without AC for months, despite warranty “Officers shortly found the couple gave the impression to be affected by conative deficiencies and clearly appeared misplaced,”…