Ladapo pals around with Dr. Simone Gold, far right, the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors. Gold and her coalition of physicians have pushed conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine and pushed horse paste for COVID. MORE
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (DeSantalini) grifted off the non-existent claim that the federal government would rip out your gas stove and haul it away by making some lame, “Don’t Tread on Florida’ gas stove aprons. The MORE
LE††UCE PREY A senior official at a non-denominational Christian church in Gainesville has been sentenced to jail and ordered to pay for counseling for a fellow church member after assaulting her, according to police. Daniel MORE
His trip comes in the wake of ongoing turmoil in Israel over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for a judicial overhaul. From Politico: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who once vowed to be the most MORE
A Disney film that tells of a 6-year-old’s integration into a white school in 1960’s New Orleans has never caused a disturbance until this year in a Pinellas County Florida elementary school. A staple of MORE
A Florida charter school principal, Hope Carrasquilla, has been ousted after multiple parents complained that their sixth graders were made to view pornography—because they looked at Michelangelo’s iconic statue of David. The statue was shown MORE
The Walt Disney Company will host a major conference promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the workplace in Central Florida this September, gathering executives and professionals from the world’s largest companies in a MORE
DATELINE: POLK CITY, Fla. — A Polk County deputy arrested a suspect in a Hillsborough County murder after tracking him down at a Sunday morning church service, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. John MORE
Marine biologists are tracking a 5,000 mile-wide sargassum seaweed blob so large it’s visible from space, and it’s heading for Florida’s Gulf Coast. Sargassum blooms are nothing new, but scientists think this could be the MORE
The report states that Angela Viviana Velez-Vazquez, 20 and Steven Michael Lopez, 31, told deputies they were in an open relationship and had invited the 29-year-old, whom Lopez met while working as a taxi driver, MORE
Under Florida’s proposed six week abortion ban law, rape victims would have to show evidence of that crime if they want an exception to the law. Critics say that this provision in Florida’s law would MORE
THE THIN BLUE LINE A gun belonging to an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer somehow went off at a popular Coral Gables restaurant Tuesday evening, striking another diner, who was taken to the hospital with minor MORE
This week in Florida authoritarianism, a bill was introduced by State Sen. Jason Brodeur that would require bloggers to register with the state government when they are paid to write about the governor and other political MORE
While appearing on Fox News following President Biden’s surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained that Russia’s military threat has been “third-rate” and blamed Biden’s “weakness” as the root cause of MORE
In a few weeks, a Florida couple will have to bid farewell to their child shortly after the baby is delivered, a gut-wrenching reality created by the US supreme court’s elimination of nationwide abortion rights MORE
LE††UCE PREY As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters MORE
Last month, the state of Florida urged schools to “err on the side of caution” to make sure “they’re complying with new Florida laws regarding books and materials available to children in school libraries and MORE
Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing away from using an eligibility form that requires female athletes to disclose their menstrual history in order to compete. Instead, the executive MORE
On the first day of Black History Month, the College Board released a revised curriculum for Advanced Placement coursework in African American Studies in apparent response to criticism from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The board’s MORE
From ABC A mass shooting in a Florida city has left 10 people wounded, the Lakeland Police Department announced on Monday.According to police, two victims are critically injured and eight face non-life-threatening injuries. “One is MORE
GUNZ Investigators say Matthew Davis, 35, placed an online order to be picked up around 9:00 p.m. When he showed up at 9:40 p.m., his food was not ready. That’s when Davis got angry. Managers MORE
Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari E. Young said at a 4 p.m. news conference that an elderly couple, Ellen Gilland, and her husband, Jerry Gilland, who was 77 and dying from an undisclosed, terminal illness, made MORE
Instead of attending Brazil’s inauguration of incoming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and passing the ceremonial presidential sash — a symbol of a peaceful transfer of power — the departing far-right former president fled MORE
According to Chad Mason’s arrest affidavit, he knew the owner of the dog and was taking the goldendoodle out for a walk in the apartment complex. Then, he started having sex with the dog in MORE
A federal grand jury has indicted Florida state Rep. Joseph B. Harding (R), 35, for allegedly trying to illicitly obtain more than $150,000 in federal pandemic relief funds. Harding is best known as the ‘brainchild’ MORE