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This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken Monday, July 5, 2021, at 4:50 p.m. EDT, and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Elsa over western Cuba with strong rain and winds. Forecasters say it will move on to the Florida Keys on Tuesday and Florida's central Gulf coast by Wednesday. The storm is moving over mainly rural areas to the east of Havana on Monday after making landfall near Cienega de Zapata, a natural park with few inhabitants. (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Elsa slightly weakens before Florida impact; Central Florida under Tornado Watch

July 7, 2021 at 5:43 a.m.

Elsa, which weakened to a tropical storm once again, is spreading across western Florida Wednesday morning and is expected to make landfall sometime during the day, the National Hurricane Center...

DeSantis signs Big Tech censorship bill, despite constitutional concerns

May 25, 2021 at 12:52 p.m.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Big Tech bill into law on Monday, hailing it as a defense against Silicon Valley banning conservatives from social media, even though critics have denounced...

Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a press conference at the Polk County Sheriff's Office, on Monday, April 19, 2021. The governor signed into law a new riot bill, surrounded by law enforcement, legislators, and police union representatives.
(Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/ Orlando Sentinel)

DeSantis signs ‘anti-riot’ bill into law, sparking outcry from Democrats, civil rights groups

April 21, 2021 at 2:31 p.m.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida's "anti-riot" bill into law on Monday, a measure that vastly increases law enforcement's powers to crack down on civil unrest. The bill, pushed by the...

Orlando Police block northbound Magnolia Ave. and Concord Street as rotestors mark through dowtown Orlando, Fla., Thursday June 4, 2020. Orlando protests continued Thursday over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, May 25.

Florida Senate passes ‘anti-riot’ bill, sends it to DeSantis to sign into law

April 16, 2021 at 9:44 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate on Thursday approved an "anti-riot" bill championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, sending it to him for signature into law over the objections of Democrats...

DeSantis vows to ban ‘vaccination passports’ as he signs law shielding businesses from COVID-19 liability

March 30, 2021 at 9:57 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida businesses soon won't be able to screen customers based on whether they've received the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday, even as he signed a bill...

Original Fat Cats is seen packed in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday June 20, 2020. Jennifer Lett South Florida Sun Sentinel

Florida reopens: DeSantis lifts state’s coronavirus restrictions

October 1, 2020 at 9:10 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida will no longer require bars and restaurants to operate at less than full capacity, as Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday removing all remaining restrictions...

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Thursday, August 6, 2020, rescinding travel restrictions on people coming to Florida from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. People from those areas had been advised to self-quarantine for two weeks.

DeSantis removes quarantine of metro New York travelers coming to Florida

August 7, 2020 at 1:52 p.m.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday dropped travel restrictions on people coming to Florida from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but a coronavirus-inspired quarantine on Floridians heading to...

Rep. Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, chairs the House Health and Human Services committee, which heard testimony Tuesday from an Oregon law enforcement officer about the negative impacts of marijuana legalization. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

Oregon cop warns Florida lawmakers about dangers of legal marijuana

November 6, 2019 at 11:18 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE ? Recreational marijuana has brought trouble to Oregon, a law officer said Tuesday, as Florida lawmakers prepared to deal with the chance that Sunshine State voters could legalize pot...

Senate president Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, multi tasks as he oversees the Senate and talks on the phone during session Monday April 29, 2019, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

Florida lawmakers pass Amendment 4 restrictions on ex-felon voting rights as Democrats fume on wild day

August 24, 2019 at 3:23 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE – Florida lawmakers worked late into Friday night as they wrangled over last-minute negotiations on tax cuts, petition-gathering laws, voting rights and charter school funding. Democrats had a rollercoaster...

Scott Paul Beierle, from Deltona, shot six people, killing two, at a Tallahassee Hot Yoga on Friday. He then killed himself, police said.

Who is Scott Paul Beierle, the man accused of the Tallahassee yoga studio shooting?

August 24, 2019 at 3:08 a.m.

The man who shot to death two people at a yoga studio in Tallahassee on Friday night was a Deltona resident with a history of violence toward young women, police...

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