1+ week, 3+ day ago   (416+ words) Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Chevron is expanding its existing operations in Venezuela, the Houston-based company said Wednesday. This comes in the wake of Friday's announcement that Venezuela will give the U.S. access…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (731+ words) A man convicted of killing a teenage girl who rejected his romantic advances was put to death Tuesday in the first of three executions planned this month in Florida. Harold Gene Lucas, 74, was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m following a three-drug…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (323+ words) Florida voters will get a choice in November whether to increase their property tax homestead exemption. But if Republican Byron Donalds is elected governor, he says he'll move to eliminate all property taxes. At a campaign stop in Tampa, Donalds…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (584+ words) Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a death warrant for Curtis Wilkie Beasley for the 1995 murder of a Polk County woman bludgeoned with a hammer in the laundry room of her home. Beasley, 77, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (233+ words) A jury on Tuesday recommended the death penalty for the man convicted of killing 12-year-old girl Jennifer Odom. Jeffrey Norman Crum, 65, was found guilty last week on counts including murder and kidnapping. The recommendation comes on the day Odom would…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (576+ words) The state of Florida wants to remove four immunizations from entry requirements for PreK-12 public and private schools. The Florida Department of Health is proposing a rule to remove Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (410+ words) In one of his first moves as education commissioner, Henry Mack has advanced a rule that would block undocumented students from attending the state’s postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) programs. The programs train students in a wide variety of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (967+ words) Several Florida county school districts have lost their more conservative board members, signaling a potential shift away from the partisan politics that dominated previous elections. In Tuesday night's primaries, Sarasota, Hernando and Pasco counties saw moderate and Democrat-backed candidates win,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (505+ words) The stage is set for the November general election, with Florida voters choosing the major parties’ nominees for statewide office. U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds won the GOP governor's primary. President Donald Trump endorsed him, and he's raised a massive amount…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (264+ words) Kimberly Overman will be the Democrat facing off against longtime U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis for his District 12 seat this fall. No-party candidate Branden Scrivener, who had no primary opposition, will also be vying for the position in November. Scrivener, 27, is a…...