Category: State News

Florida AG Scores Win in Court Battle With Biden Administration Over Border Crisis

June 6, 2023
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has scored yet another win in her legal battle with the Biden administration over its policy of allowing the mass release of illegal immigrants into the interior of the United States. In a June 5 statement, Moody said that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had agreed to keep in place a…

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Mother Fatally Shot by Neighbor After Dispute Over Playing Children, Sheriff Says

June 6, 2023
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OCALA, Fla.—A Florida mother was fatally shot through the front door of her neighbor’s home while her 9-year-old son stood next to her, a violent culmination of what police said was a 2½-year feud. Ajike Owens, 35, was fatally shot after going to the Ocala apartment of her neighbor, who earlier had yelled at Owens’…

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Police in South Florida Arrest 3 Suspects in Memorial Day Beach Shooting

June 6, 2023
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla.—Police in South Florida arrested two suspects over the weekend and a third on Monday following a Memorial Day shooting along a busy beachside promenade that injured nine people. Detectives from the Hollywood Police Department took Ariel Cardahn Paul, 16, into custody on Sunday night and Lionel JeanCharles Jr., 18, on Monday afternoon, the…

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Missouri Man Facing Execution for Killing 2 Jailers in Failed Bid to Help Inmate Escape in 2000

June 6, 2023
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A man who shot and killed two rural Missouri jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an inmate escape is set to be executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tisius, 42, is scheduled to die by injection at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Leon Egley and Jason Acton at the…

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Newsom Brands DeSantis a ‘Small Pathetic Man’ After 2nd Plane of Illegal Immigrants Lands in California

June 6, 2023
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A second plane of illegal immigrants allegedly sent from Florida landed in Sacramento, California on June 5, officials said, marking the second such flight in recent days. The latest flight was carrying around 20 immigrants, a spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office told CBS News, adding that the immigrants were carrying documentation that suggested they were being…

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Arizona Lawmaker Criticizes Katie Hobbs’s Veto of Bill Criminalizing Filming Porn at Public Schools

June 6, 2023
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An Arizona state lawmaker criticized Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday for vetoing a bill that sought to make it a crime to film pornography at public schools and shield minors from sexually explicit materials. State Sen. Jake Hoffman, a Republican, introduced Senate Bill 1696 after two Mohave County teachers—spouses who worked at different schools in the same…

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Mississippi Republicans Demand LGBT Pride Flag Be Removed From Veterans Affairs Cemetery

June 6, 2023
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Five Republican lawmakers from Mississippi are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to remove an LGBT Pride flag that has been temporarily placed on Biloxi Veterans Affairs property, arguing that its installment amounts to a “political stunt.” In the June 5 letter, the lawmakers said they believe that the flag hanging in front of the Biloxi VA Medical Center…

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DHS Faces Backlash Over App Used to Grant Would-Be Illegal Immigrants Entry to US

June 6, 2023
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Critics have accused the Biden administration of downplaying the number of potential illegal immigrants that could enter the United States under two separate programs used to grant “humanitarian parole” to applicants who use a mobile phone app to book appointments at U.S. ports of entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), under the direction of…

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Trooper Seizes Nearly 230 Pounds of Fentanyl in Southern Arizona

June 6, 2023
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An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper seized nearly 230 pounds of fentanyl pills on June 2 during a traffic stop in southern Arizona. The trooper pulled over a vehicle on Interstate 19 near Amado in Santa Cruz County and noticed multiple indicators of possible criminal activity, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS)….

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Supreme Court Rejects Case of Woman on Alabama Death Row

June 5, 2023
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is leaving in place the sentence of a woman on death row in Alabama who helped her boyfriend kill his two young children. The high court on Monday rejected an appeal from lawyers for Heather Leavell-Keaton. As is typical, the court rejected the case without comment. Leavell-Keaton was convicted of murder in…

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