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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Three Florida metropolitan areas ranked among the nation’s top 10 for property tax growth exceeding home value growth from 2022 to 2024, according to a ConsumerAffairs report released ahead of the state’s vote on property tax relief.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Tampa City Council will consider a custom community benefits agreement with the Tampa Bay Rays Stadium Company in a special meeting Thursday.
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Reporting from Just the News
Fine emphasized that a lawmaker has to be an American citizen in order to serve in either chamber, meaning Omar would need to be removed from her post if convicted of immigration fraud.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Registered Democrats have cast 8,892 more ballots than registered Republicans in Florida, where more than 2.7 million people had voted by Monday afternoon, just over a week before Election Day, according to the latest data from the Florida Division of Elections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Propositions to amend state constitutions to reduce property taxes are on the Nov. 3 ballot in seven states.
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Reporting from Just the News
The teen arrested in connection with the shooting has been charged with attempted second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a delinquent, according to a statement from Tallahassee police.
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Reporting from Just the News
The researchers' system uses satellite images along with weather patterns and known breeding grounds to identify potential locations quickly. The information is then handed over to the state for its eradication efforts.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office’s agreement to pay a private lawyer a share of asset-forfeiture proceeds violates due process, the Goldwater Institute argued in a court brief filed Thursday.
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Reporting from Just the News
FBI Director Kash Patel said Floris led the FBI's since-dissolved Foreign Influence Task Force as deputy assistant director from mid-2019 through mid-2022, and that Benavides was the section chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) – A Florida man, who claims he was wrongfully identified as a suspected shooter at two Miami-area high schools in 2022, is now suing the Miami-Dade County School Board and the two school officers who detained him.
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