In 2018, 11-year-old Emma Stanford and her Gold Star family from Palm Coast, Florida, mentioned to their local sheriff her desire to find a canine companion. He then sent a member of his K-9 unit to her home and it was love at first woof. Now 14, her efforts led to a new statewide program…
Deadly Multi-State Listeria Outbreak May Be Linked to Florida, Says CDC
A listeria outbreak in a specific food product that hasn’t been identified yet which has hospitalized nearly two dozen people may be linked to Florida, according to health officials. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in a notice on Thursday that the outbreak has left at least one person dead, sickened…
CDC Discloses Likely Origin of Deadly Listeria Outbreak
A listeria outbreak in a specific food product that hasn’t been identified yet which has hospitalized nearly two dozen people may be linked to Florida, according to health officials. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in a notice on Thursday that the outbreak has left at least one person dead, sickened…
Florida Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Parents of Gabbi Petito’s Fiance to Go to Trial
A Florida circuit court judge on Thursday allowed a lawsuit from the parents of Gabby Petito to go ahead against the parents of her deceased fiancé, Brian Laundrie. This comes after Laundrie’s parents, Christopher and Roberta Laundrie, sought to dismiss the case, which claims the Laundries intentionally inflicted emotional distress on Petito’s parents, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt,…
Florida Judge Delays 15-Week Abortion Ban—DeSantis is Not Surprised
PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—A circuit judge declared Florida’s 15-week abortion ban unconstitutional by “delaying it” and Gov. Ron DeSantis said the decision was not “unanticipated.” Leon Circuit Judge John Cooper ruled on June 30 that the new law signed by DeSantis in April was “unconstitutional” and that it was “temporarily delayed,” but would only take effect…
House Subcommittee Misleads About Florida’s Stance on COVID-19 Vaccines for Children: Florida Surgeon General
The Florida surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, on June 29 accused the office of Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, of having issued misleading statements about various matters related to Florida’s attitude and actions toward COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5. Florida is the only state…
DeSantis Probe of Human Traffickers Cleared by Florida Supreme Court
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday gave permission to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to order a statewide probe into alleged human trafficking activities aided by transnational crime organizations (TCOs). The court approved DeSantis’s request to impanel a statewide grand jury for an initial duration of 12 calendar months to investigate TCOs and their affiliates who…
Social Media Study Shows Growing DeSantis Boom Among Swing Voters
An analysis of social media posts shared with The Epoch Times shows growing momentum for Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the GOP presidential nominee in 2024 among voters who aren’t solidly in the Trump camp. “A sizable portion of the positive discussion (32 percent) speak of him as preferable to Trump,” said the summary…
Florida Vows to Enhance Pro-Life Protections After Supreme Court Ruling
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Friday the state would enhance its pro-life protections, while applauding the high court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade. “By properly interpreting the Constitution, the prayers of millions have been answered,” DeSantis said in a June 24 Twitter post in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to undo…
A Year On, Surfside Remembers 98 Victims of Condo Collapse
SURFSIDE, Fla.—A year ago in the middle of the night, a 12-story oceanfront condo building in Surfside, Florida, came down with a thunderous roar, leaving a giant pile of rubble and claiming 98 lives—one of the deadliest structure collapses in U.S. history. The names of each victim were read aloud during a ceremony Friday to…
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