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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration moved forward Friday with a proposal that would deny Medicaid coverage for treatments such as puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy for transgender people. The state Agency for Health Care Administration, which runs most of the Medicaid program, published a proposed rule…
Read More Florida Moves Forward On Proposal Denying Transgender Meds, Treatments
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Ryan Thompson had The Westin Seattle scoped out. From where certain elevators, escalators, and stairs led to and from, to potential key entry points from the parking garage, he felt good about his level of preparation. Sure enough, the 13-year-old Thompson,…
Read More Rays’ Ryan Thompson Was An Aggressive Autograph Hound
POLK COUNTY, Fla. – On Friday, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Homicide Unit arrested 24-year-old David Syking Street, Jr. after he left the scene of a crash where a 41-year-old Clermont man died. According to deputies around 12:50 a.m., the PCSO Emergency Communications Center…
Read More Polk County Man Arrested For Fleeing Crash That Killed 41-Year-Old Man
TAMPA, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County issued a rabies alert for the area surrounding Nobb Oak Ave. This is in response to a cat that tested positive on May 13, 2022. All residents and visitors in Hillsborough County should be…
Read More Rabies Alert Issued In Tampa After Cat Tests Positive In Nobb Oak Ave. Area
Micaela Burrow The FBI and the U.S. Commerce Department launched a joint investigation into how U.S. chips made their way into Russian weapons systems in potential violation of laws banning certain electronics sales to Russia, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. A team from independent investigative group Conflict…
Read More Biden Admin Investigating How The Russian Military Got Ahold Of US-Made Chips
The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. was served with 3,881 lawsuits during the first four months of 2022, as its number of customers continued soaring. The average of 970 lawsuits a month was about 11.5 percent more than the average of 870 lawsuits a month…
Read More Florida Backed Property Insurer Sees 970 Lawsuits A Month
Hillsborough County Parks & Recreation has received the National Innovation in Social Equity Award for its 1-year-old wheelchair football team. The Innovation in Social Equity Award recognizes an innovative project or program that creates more equitable communities by improving access to local parks and recreation…
Read More Hillsborough County Buccaneers Wheelchair Football Team Earns National Award
Corrine Brown, a former Democratic congresswoman from Jacksonville and a convicted felon, seeks a return ticket to Capitol Hill Brown, who spent 24 years in Congress in one of Florida’s most gerrymandered districts in modern memory, announced Thursday that she is running for the newly…
Read More Florida Democrat Seeks To Go From A Jail Cell To The Halls Of Congress
U.S. Sen Rick Scott continues to bash President Joe Biden over his inability or unwillingness to tame inflation. Scott this week released a statement slamming Biden after another Labor Department report showed that costs keep skyrocketing. This time, the report noted that prices faced by…
Read More Sen. Scott: Oblivious Biden Only Offers “More Inflation And Less Opportunity”
It’s become abundantly clear that a buck doesn’t go nearly as far as it used to. In fact, that dollar only gets about 89 percent of the way there. But the Florida government’s top fiscal manager is warning consumers to beware of tricks companies use…
Read More Florida CFO Patronis Wants Floridians To Be On Guard For “Shrinkflation”