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Carrying signs saying “No More Casinos!” and “This is All Unconstitutional!,” about 100 Floridians trekked to the state Capitol Tuesday.
There won't be legal online fantasy sports betting in Florida anytime soon — at least, it looks unlikely this year.
Voting rights and civil rights groups including UnidosUS, Equal Ground Education Fund, and Faith in Florida filed the legal challenge.
In several states, 18, 19 and 20-year-olds play fantasy sports, but lawmakers in Florida are pushing back, instead setting a minimum age.
It occurred just before his panel voted Monday to advance legislation connected to DeSantis' big gambling deal.
In the first day of a special legislative session on gambling in Florida, a big part of the deal appears to have been taken off the table.
Changes in state rules over Bingo games in Florida may have hit a dead end Monday.
Expanding gambling in Florida, including legal sports betting and other casino games, would require additional resources.
It's from a progressive coalition of workers, retirees, unions, social-service advocates, small business owners, and policy experts.
Florida school districts are reconsidering mask protocols following an update this week from federal health officials.
DeSantis has interceded again to block criminal sanctions for people who violated local social-distancing and mask mandates.
Florida could allow sports betting via cellphone from Key West to Pensacola; getting there will require building an elaborate bureaucracy.
Ralph D. Turlington, former speaker of the Florida House and Education Commissioner, died Friday at the age of 100.
In Tallahassee gathering, lawmakers are expected to express fear that legalized gambling could spur addiction, especially among the young.
Some 70 state lawmakers, reporters, and other interested parties were schooled this week on “a spiderweb” of gambling laws in Florida.
With FSU president John Thrasher stepping down soon, Florida State University is looking at nine candidates for its next president.
The impacts of COVID-19 continue to hover over it.
It is the old phosphate processing plant near Tampa Bay.
In what is called "an alarming portrait," the state Department of Corrections secretary called it "woefully understaffed."
Bracelet campaign and its proceeds raise national awareness on POW and MIA, the report states.