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Let your eyes wander around the 48-year-old map and you'll see all sorts of artifacts. ... Though some cities' maps go back to the 1800s, Southwest Florida's, alas, begin in the 1950s.
In April, 1986, the Los Angeles Public Library’s historic Central Library on Flower Street went up in flames; the catastrophic (and still-unsolved) blaze consumed some 400,000 volumes and caused ...
CBS News Miami Live. A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs was executed Thursday evening.
The old map straddled the 5th District along a roughly 150-mile stretch of Florida’s border with Georgia, a minority-majority area where Black residents make up more than 40% of the population.
It is, or was, a slice of Old Florida. Where the condo towers weren’t. No thonged models, celebrities or South Beach vibe either. Matlacha, Florida, is now struggling to stay on the map. This ...
A Florida appeals court on Friday upheld the state’s congressional map advocated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which was enacted after the 2020 census and dismantled a Black-majority district in the ...
TAMPA, Fla. — It took the Florida legislature one second to do what decades of court orders, lawsuits and amendments tried to stop: drawing voting maps with the intent to favor one political party.
A Florida man will spend the next 18 years behind bars for raping a 13-year-old girl, whose family he was staying with, and then forcing her to take Plan B, the emergency contraception pill.
James Edward Ford III, an assistant football coach at West Port High School in Ocala, Florida, was arrested on Jan. 17, 2024, for allegedly having a sexually relationship with a 16-year-old student.
Unless you've visited Jacksonville and sampled "Mayport shrimp," it's likely you would never hear about this Old Florida ...
A 100-year-old oak tree fell on the governor's mansion in Tallahassee, Florida, as Hurricane Idalia made landfall in the area, said Casey DeSantis, the wife of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who killed an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs was executed Thursday evening. Prison officials said ...