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Florida Supreme Court Justice John Curiel listens to arguments on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022 in a case concerning Marsy’s Law. The Florida Supreme Court grilled attorneys on both sides of a dispute between the city of Tallahassee and the police union on whether the identities of officers who kill suspects can be kept secret under Marsy’s Law, a constitutional amendment designed to protect victims of crime. The case arose from two separate incidents in 2020 in which Tallahassee Police Department officers shot and killed armed suspects who were threatening them. The officers’ were later cleared by a grand jury, and both sides acknowledged that their conduct was not an issue. Both officers, known to the public only as John Doe 1 and 2, sought protection after the shootings under Marsy’s Law, which Florida voters approved in 2018. The law, marketed to voters as a way to ensure crime victims were put on an even playing field as defendants in court, includes pro...

PRINCETON, NJ , Dec 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), owner of Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEX ), The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX ), and Dorman Trading LLC announced today the celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the launch of MIAX Options® with a ceremonial bell ringing at its Princeton, NJ headquarters. “Today is a truly momentous day in the history of Miami International Holdings as we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the launch of MIAX Options,” said Thomas P Gallagher , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MIH. “I would like to thank all of our investors, directors and member firms for their unwavering support over the past decade. I also would like to extend my gratitude to all of our employees who have worked tirelessly to build MIAX Options into what it has become today.” ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – The Tallahassee City Commission unanimously approved the construction of sidewalks at two elementary schools in the city at Wednesday’s meeting. The city unanimously accepted just under $1.3 million in funding from the Florida Department of Transportation to install sidewalks from nearby neighborhoods to Hawk’s Rise Elementary School and Springwood Elementary School. Hawk’s Rise Elementary would see the sidewalks run along Heritage Road from Meadow Ridge Drive to Summerbrook Drive. Springwood Elementary will get sidewalks along North Settler’s Boulevard beginning at Fred George Road. The “Safe Routes to School” FDOT funding will cover all of the sidewalk construction and installation. An additional $388 thousand will come from the city’s new sidewalk program master project for inspection services for the site. Copyright 2022 WCTV. All rights reserved. The post Tallahassee City Commission approves sidewalks fo...

Below, please find a statement from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida regarding the recent ruling in the Second District Court of Appeal on Rivergrass Village, a proposed development in Collier County. In the Second District Court of Appeal State of Florida Appeal from the Circuit Court of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit in and for Collier County, Florida Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Plaintiff-Appellant vs. Collier County, Florida and Collier Enterprises Management, Inc. Defendants-Appellees The Conservancy of Southwest Florida is pleased to share that the Second District Court of Appeal (DCA) ruling has confirmed our legal right to present evidence at the Circuit Court level against the Rivergrass Village Development Order with regard to traffic impacts and fiscal neutrality. The DCA’s ruling will allow the Conservancy to bring forth these claims against Rivergrass Village, which were incorrectly excluded by the lower court. In our 2020 legal challenge again...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Hundreds of veterans and volunteers came together Wednesday night for Tallahassee Honor Flight’s annual reunion. Each year, about 80 veterans are treated to an all-expenses-paid trip to DC to see the memorials as a way to thank them for their service. Wednesday they got the chance to reminisce on that experience. One veteran, Allen Below, served in Vietnam. He says visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was the most impactful part of his experience. “The wall probably was the most memorable,” Below said. “That’s the part that reached down inside—to realize that I came home but these people did not.” Next year’s Honor Flight will be held on April 29th. Any veterans who would like to apply to go on the trip can do so here. Copyright 2022 WCTV. All rights reserved. The post Tallahassee Honor Flight holds annual reunion first appeared on Daily Florida Press .

Dec 7—A Gainesville man left the scene of a Feb. 5 fatal crash that killed a 19-year-old Jefferson woman, who was trying to check on him after he crashed into a guardrail. Investigators believe Francisco Camarillo left the county and fled to Texas. When Camarillo was brought back from Dallas to Hall County five months later, he was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide. But prosecutors later decided to proceed on misdemeanor charges of hit and run along with driving without a license and failure to maintain lane. Superior Court Judge Bonnie Oliver sentenced Camarillo, 36, to 48 months in November with the first helped in county jail and the remainder on probation in the death of Charisma Farmer Lazcano. Oliver said the probation time will be suspended upon Camarillo’s deportation, but it would be reinstated if he returns to the country. Camarillo would also be subject to having his probation revoked if he comes back to the US Attorney Matt Cook, representin...

Fallen TV reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who publicly portrayed themselves as real estate tycoons and the heads of a picturesque American family, may soon serve prison time in Florida following their conviction in a high-profile federal tax-evasion case last month. A federal judge in Atlanta recommended Todd Chrisley, 54, serve his 12-year sentence at the federal prison camp in Pensacola and Julie Chrisley, 49, serve her seven-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institute in Coleman. However, if FCI Coleman is full, the court recommended she serve her time at FCI Tallahassee, according to court records filed Monday in the Northern District of Georgia. The Tallahassee prison is home to at least one other notorious inmate: disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who arrived earlier this year. Notables at Tallahassee FCI: Ghislaine Maxwell sent to ‘low security’ Tallahassee prison for role in Epstein sex-trafficking ring From USA TODAY: Todd Chri...

One of the most annoying things about cryptocurrency is its persistent misrepresentation as an “anonymous” technology. It is very much not that. Cash is anonymous. Let’s say you drop a fiver, and someone picks it up and spends it. Not only will you not know who got it, you might not even realize it was gone. Crypto, on the other hand, leaves a trail. Often, this is recorded on a blockchain, which is public and immutable. Public! And immutable! To avoid creating this record, you need to go “off chain” and take the risk of trusting a private network. One like FTX. In short: the promise of crypto is not anonymity, but the decentralization of power through transparency. Big traders and investors — those who have tens of millions of dollars’ worth of crypto deposited with FTX — should already know this. (They also probably already trade with FTX’s competitors, since Binance had a massive market share even before FTX’s collapse.) FTX’s lawyers...

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative will accept post-holiday cut Christmas trees and greens at its Gainesville technical center at 5399 Wellington Branch Road, near Interstate 66 and Route 29, from Dec. 26, 2022, to Jan. 9, 2023. Consumers should leave greens in the parking lot area designated by orange safety cones. All greens must be free of all decorations, ornament hooks, wires, and light strings. NOVEC’s Vegetation Management employees will turn the greens into mulch to reduce landfill holiday waste. “Recycling holiday greens is just another way we help area residents and the environment,” says Rick Carpenter, NOVEC Vegetation Management manager. For more information about recycling holiday greens, contact NOVEC’s Vegetation Management department at 703-335-0500 or 1-888-335-0500, or [email protected] The post NOVEC recycling Christmas trees in Gainesville until Jan. 9, 2023 first appeared on Daily Florida Press .

Florida ranks among the top 10 states with the highest rates of uninsured children across the United States, with an estimated 332,000 kids, from newborns to age 17, who were uninsured during 2021, according to nationwide data from Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. State and national policy analysists fear that number could grow as families “fall through the cracks” of coverage, and during a virtual press conference Thursday called on Florida and other states to minimize coverage loss. “Of course, because Florida is one of now just 11 states that have not expanded Medicaid, far too many residents will end up in the coverage gap, earning too much to qualify for Medicaid and too little to qualify for marketplace subsidies,” said Alison Yager, executive director of the nonpartisan advocacy group, Florida Health Justice Project. Medicaid is a federal-state effort that provides health care plans for many low-income residents. In Florida, it is administered by...

The bao buns come with two fluffy, chewy buns filled with your choice of protein and topped with gochujang sauce, toasted sesame honey slaw, scallions, and sesame seeds. The Short Rib Bao is a fan favorite and contains 48-hour braised short ribs with a house BBQ rub and sauce. The Schezuan Mandu Dumplings come with five dumplings packed with woodear mushrooms, cabbage, carrot, vermicelli, and garlic schezuan sauce. Cooking runs in the family for Whaley, who grew up near Omaha, Nebraska. She comes from a long lineage of female chefs, beginning with her grandmother who launched a food service business. Additionally, her aunt operated two restaurants, her mother owned a catering company, and her grandfather ran a food truck in Naples, Florida. Whaley has earned three culinary degrees over the years and got her start sweating over hot stoves at several high-end restaurants in Omaha. The post Japanese-inspired Shiso Crispy food truck to open first restaurant in west St. Pete — St...

There’s an old saying that once is an accident, twice is a coincidence and three times is a pattern. What if I told you that 18 LIV Golf players who jumped from the PGA Tour this season for boatloads of Saudi cash had competed in the QBE Shootout, aka the Shark Shootout? That’s more than a coincidence. It appears that Norman, who hosted the unofficial tour event since 1989, exploited his hosting duties to recruit players to LIV. Developing a chummy relationship with Tour pros at the one event where the Shark regularly got to spend a week in the locker room and form relationships with them turned out to be rewarding. Of the 18 former shootout competitors who joined LIV, 13 of them played in Naples, Florida, within the past two years when the upstart Saudi-backed golf league was taking flight. LIV’s Greg Norman not at Shark Shootout, but typical of bizarre year in golf | D’Angelo Lexi Thompson pumped to hit bombs at QBE Shootout with new partner Maver...

A Tallahassee startup wants to make visits to the doctor a little easier. WellConnector is an app that replaces the paperwork patients have to fill out before visits with new doctors. Over the past year, Allison Aubuchon found herself visiting new doctor after new doctor while trying to find solutions for an ongoing health concern. “I was getting to the bottom of a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and that was causing me to see multiple new doctors, rheumatologists, neurologists, and within a short period of time having to fill out that new patient paperwork over and over again was physically challenging because I was experiencing carpal tunnel from the inflammation and that just opened my eyes to if I’m having trouble with this, how much harder must it be for someone with a different disability,” said Aubuchon who is co-founder of WellConnector. Aubuchon said filling out information about your medical history, allergies or medications can be difficult for many suc...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Police have released new details from their investigation into the October murder of a man who was found shot in the street near downtown Orlando. >>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE Officers responded to the 600 block of Lexington Ave. near Lake Dot just before 10 pm on October 9 for reports of a person lying in the street. READ: Wrong-way driver in crash that killed motorcyclist believed to be Orange County corrections officer Police arrived to find the victim, identified as Sean Ruben Acosta, lying face-up in the roadway. Officers noted stab wounds on Acosta at the time but a Medical Examiner later determined he died from a gunshot wound to the back. A month after the murder, on November 10, Orlando police arrested 24-year-old Kelonshay Watson in connection with the case. Days later, they identified 17-year-old Anaitasha Santana as a second suspect. Court documents released Thursday- after Santana was ordered to be moved from the Juve...

In-demand model Cindy Prado travels more than 150 days a year. Although she loves the adventure, the Cuban American influencer (with 2.7 million followers on Instagram and 6.1 million likes on TikTok) can’t wait to get back home to Miami — and not just because she owns the runway during the city’s Swim Week. “We have beautiful high-end restaurants, nightclubs and 24-hour parties,” she tells Alexa. “It’s impossible to get bored in this city.” When the social media maven isn’t busy overseeing her successful fitness platform, the Prado Program, she’s indulging her passion for food as a part owner of three Miami restaurants (Miss Crispy Rice, Sushi OG and Papi Churro), all housed inside Oasis Wynwood . Who better to ask about the hottest spots in Magic City? Here’s the strutter’s must-hit list. Baby Jane, 500 Brickell Ave. Baby Jane is Prado’s go-to casual bar. Photo Courtesy of Baby Jane “This is my go...

County officials will soon roll out a program aimed at improving home energy efficiency while ensuring affordable housing. The new initiative, however, initially will only help out a small number of households. During a special meeting this week, the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners nodded in support of a pilot of the Alachua County Energy Efficiency and Weatherization Grant Program that will aid at least 15 families by making their homes more energy efficient and affordable. “This is my baby and I’m just so happy to see it up there,” said Commissioner Mary Alford. “It has just made my whole day.” More: Gainesville officials approve $7 million in pandemic relief to dozens of local nonprofits More: As pandemic subsides, Alachua County’s workforce is back, employers staffing up Alford, an environmental engineer, initially proposed the program prior to resigning from her seat earlier this year due to a residency issue. She won ...

Florida divorce lawyer Russell D. Knight (https://divorceattorneynaplesfl.com/can-i-get-an-annulment-in-florida/) releases a new article explaining whether an annulment is possible in Florida. The lawyer mentions that according to the Black’s Law Dictionary, an annulment means an event or judgment that is treated as if it never happened. Marriage annulment will make a marriage disappear as though it never happened in the first place. According to the Florida divorce lawyer, “Fraud is one of the few grounds for annulment. Fraud is the making of intentional misrepresentation, with the knowledge that the other party will rely on it, and attaining the other party’s consent as a result. Basically, lying about something important in order to get the other person to marry you.” The lawyer explains that if an individual uses fraud as a ground for annulment, one question will be whether the thing they were lied to is important enough to count as fraud. However, in ...