Trump says he will vote that Florida needs ‘more than 6 weeks’ for abortion

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 30, 2024. Posted in Election 2024, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics.

Former President Donald Trump didn’t exactly say how he would vote on a Florida amendment that would protect abortion access — but on Thursday he said he would “be voting that we need more than six weeks.” Florida currently bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a change that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in 2023. Trump has previously called Florida’s six-week ban a “terrible mistake.” When an NBC News reporter asked Trump how he would vote on Florida’s abortion amendment, Trump reiterated that he thought the six-week cutoff was too short. When the reporter followed by asking...

Health department now notifying Floridians whose information was stolen, leaked

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 22, 2024. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Health, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Health is sending notices out to people whose personal and health information was stolen by hackers and released on the dark web last month. Floridians are being notified by mail if they were a victim of the cyberattack, and the state is offering them free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services, the department wrote in a public notice Wednesday. In June, the international hacker group RansomHub stole at least 20,000 department files that included some Floridians’ most sensitive information: HIV test results, signed medical release...

Sasse stepped down. Donors and top officials say he was forced out.

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 17, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics.

Former UF President Ben Sasse stepped down unexpectedly in July, citing concerns about his wife’s health. But nine current and former administrators and top donors say there was more to the story. After 17 months on the job, his working relationship with the UF Board of Trustees chairman, Morteza “Mori” Hosseini, became untenable, they say. Hosseini, a strong-willed top political appointee of Gov. Ron DeSantis and a developer, has served as head of the school’s board of trustees since 2018. Out of public view, tensions escalated to a breaking point between Hosseini and Sasse, the former...

NRA again asks court to overturn Florida law banning people under 21 from buying long guns

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 1, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Parkland school shooting.

TALLAHASSEE — After a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the National Rifle Association on Wednesday urged an appellate court to find that a 2018 Florida law banning people under age 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns violates the Second Amendment. The Republican-controlled Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott rushed to include the age restriction in a sweeping school-safety bill after Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, used a semiautomatic rifle to kill 17 students and faculty members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Federal law already...

Feds urge judge to toss out Florida suit challenging rule on gun seller licenses and background checks

TALLAHASSEE — The Biden administration this week urged a judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys Monday filed a 22-page motion in federal court in Tampa arguing that Florida does not have legal standing to challenge the rule, which was finalized in April by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit May 1, in part alleging that the rule will force the state to handle a...

DeSantis signs death warrant in 1994 murder of FSU student

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 30, 2024. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1994 murder of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister. Loran Cole, 57, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 29 at Florida State Prison, according to documents posted Monday evening on the Florida Supreme Court website. Cole would be the first inmate executed in Florida since October, when Michael Duane Zack was put to death by lethal injection for a 1996 murder in Escambia County. Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John...

Fuchs to return as interim UF president after Sasse’s resignation

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 24, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — University of Florida trustees Tuesday brought back former President Kent Fuchs to lead the school on an interim basis, after the sudden resignation of President Ben Sasse. Fuchs, who spent about eight years as UF president, will return to the role on Aug. 1. Sasse, who has been president less than two years, announced Thursday he will step down effective July 31 because of his wife’s health. He said he would work with Fuchs on the transition. “I just want to offer whatever help. I’ll be able to carry water and row alongside him,” Sasse said. Fuchs’ return was first announced...

Safety regulators investigate low flight by a Southwest jet that eventually landed at Fort Lauderdale airport

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 23, 2024. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Transportation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was still about 5 miles from its intended landing spot at the airport in Tampa. The pilots skipped over the Tampa airport and landed instead at Fort Lauderdale, 200 miles away. The July 14 flight followed a similar incident last month in Oklahoma City in which a Southwest jet flew at an unusually low altitude while still miles from the airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it is investigating the incident. Southwest flight...

UF President Ben Sasse resigns unexpectedly, citing wife’s health

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 19, 2024. Posted in Education, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

GAINESVILLE — University of Florida’s president, Ben Sasse, unexpectedly announced his resignation late Thursday after just 17 months at the helm of the state’s flagship university, citing his wife’s health issues and a need to spend more time with his family. In a short statement emailed across campus, Sasse — the former Republican U.S. senator for Nebraska — said he would leave his job on July 31, less than two weeks away. The surprise announcement comes during a period of a fraught relationship between Sasse and the longtime chairman of UF’s board of trustees, developer Mori Hosseini,...

Old Rubio confidante accused of acting as Venezuela agent can go to RNC, judge says

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 13, 2024. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News, Politics.

A federal judge is allowing embattled former U.S. Rep. David Rivera to travel to Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention. The question is: does U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio want him there? Rivera, who’s charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s government, has a decades-long personal and political relationship with Rubio. The two men have known one another for decades, and even owned a home together in Tallahassee at one point. They served alongside one another in the Florida state House and Rivera won his U.S. House seat the same year...

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