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Three years after the adoption of Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking Standards, a new state law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), has caused some school districts to remove many written works deemed sexually explicit. Hillsborough County took this step more recently by telling teachers that they were only allowed to assign excerpts of Romeo & Juliet, rather than the entire play. Several of Shakespeare’s works involve vulgar puns and innuendos, and in Romeo & Juliet specifically, it is suggested that the two protagonists have premarital sex. Copies of Shakespeare’s works sti...
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A new study from University of Miami has demonstrated that sharks are getting closer to crowded beaches in Florida. “Few studies have investigated the movements of ocean predators in relation to urbanization, but since other studies have shown that land predators are urban avoids, we expected sharks to be too,” said lead study author Neil Hammerschlag, director of the UM Shark Research and Conservation Program. “We were surprised to find that the sharks we tracked spent so much time near the lights and sounds of the busy city, often close to shore, no matter the time of day.” Study authors hav...
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In a pretty classic Florida story, a woman was arrested for reckless driving on Thursday and allegedly told officers that she only did it to check getting arrested off her bucket list. Janiya Shaimiracle Douglas, 19, was arrested by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office early Thursday morning after she was seen driving recklessly and didn’t initially stop when flagged by officers. She didn’t keep going for long though and eventually stopped for officers. She told deputies for the sheriff’s office that she had wanted to get arrested since high school, so congrats to her for finally making that amb...
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A Florida teenager has been charged with the deaths of six people in a violent crash on Jan. 27 in Delray Beach, Florida. According to the sheriff’s report, it was revealed that Noah Thomas Galle, 18, admitted to police that he was speeding at 151 m.p.h. in his BMW on social media. Court documents revealed that the occupants of the Nissan Rogue were leaving Pero Family Farms, where they worked. Galle’s vehicle crushed the rear of the Nissan “forward several feet into the passenger compartment.” Due to the blow, the Nissan rotated into the center median and started “flipping and rolling over be...
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A Florida babysitter, Amber Christine Chapman, is accused of putting the four-year-old boy she was charged with into a working dryer. According to an affidavit from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, the 35-year-old woman was charged with a first-degree felony aggravated child abuse. The investigation of the incident began in February when deputies responded to the ER at UF Health Leesburg Hospital in Lake County for a report of a young boy with bruises all over his face and body. The detectives visited the child and got his description of what had happened. Based on the affidavit, the boy said...
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Another apartment complex in Miami, Bayview 60 Homes, which is near a condo building in Surfside, Florida, that collapsed last year, has been ordered to be evacuated after it was determined unsafe by engineers. The five-story apartment building had to be evacuated within 24 hours according to a statement released by the City of North Miami on Monday. According to the city, the safety issue was raised by engineers in a letter to the city when they found it during preparations for repairs. The engineers said the building had “critical structural issues” stemming from “a deflection in the elevati...
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A bill to keep Florida lottery winners’ names secret for 90 days after they win awaits the governor’s signature and has since received support from a woman who was convicted of killing one of those winners herself. The bill was passed by the Florida House in a 114-1 vote, and then it passed the state Senate 37-1. If signed into law, lottery winners of $250,000 or more will be made anonymous for 90 days unless they wish to be publicly identified. “Unfortunately for some people, that dream of winning the lottery, sometimes those dreams become a nightmare,” said Rep Tracie Davis (D-Jacksonville),...
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A Florida fundraiser planned for April to feature Melania Trump has been called off after state regulators concluded that the company working with the former first lady to organize the charitable event had not properly registered to solicit contributions. Mrs. Trump had announced in late January plans for what she called “Tulips & Topiaries,” a gathering at an undisclosed location in Naples, Florida. It would feature an “elaborate flower garden with tulips” and “delicious hors d’oeuvres alongside tea and bubbles.” Tickets were put on sale for as much as $50,000 for a VIP table, with the money...
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A retired captain for the Tampa police department began his murder trial Monday, after an eight-year delay since the 2014 incident where he shot a moviegoer after they argued about texting in the theater. The man, Curtis Reeves, who is now 79, allegedly got into an argument with 43-year-old Chad Oulson while Oulson was texting his babysitter during the previews for a showing of Lone Survivor on Jan 13, 2014. According to investigators, the argument escalated after Reeves left to complain to theater management, and Reeves shot Oulson fatally with a .380-caliber handgun after Oulson threw popcor...
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Despite spending his Thanksgiving in rehab, rapper Kodak Black spent over $15,000 on turkeys to donate to underserved residents of South Florida. After failing a drug test, the Pompano Beach native was sent to a 90-day residential treatment program outside of Florida, where doctors believed a different atmosphere would be crucial for his recovery. Kodak was in the midst of serving a 46-month sentence for lying on his application to purchase a gun when he got the failed drug test. Like Corn, 2020’s US Thanksgiving Turkey, Kodak was pardoned by the former President Donald Trump earlier in 2021, ...
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