Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced that a Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting has been created amid Texas' mid-decade redistricting effort.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis confirmed that at least 100 detainees from the Everglades-based detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz have been “fully deported,” emphasizing the facility's role in President Trump’s push for expedited immigration enforcement.
An 18-year-old mother in Lake City, Florida, has been charged with felony child neglect after police say she left her 2-year-old daughter locked in a hot car while she returned to finish watching a movie. Authorities say Tipora Merriex placed the crying toddler inside a 2002 Cadillac Escalade and went back into the theater to continue watching the “Smurfs” movie with her siblings.
The top law enforcement official in Polk County, Sheriff Grady Judd, says federal immigration facilities are near capacity due to Florida’s aggressive interior enforcement.
A federal trial in Miami is underway to determine Tesla’s liability in a 2019 crash that killed a 22-year-old woman and seriously injured her companion. The driver of the Tesla Model S involved in the incident testified that the car’s Autopilot system failed to provide any warning or engage the brakes prior to the collision.
Florida is scheduled to carry out the execution of 54-year-old Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection today. Bell was convicted in 1995 for the double murder of 18-year-old Tamecka Smith and 23-year-old Jimmy West, whom he ambushed and killed with an AK-47 outside a bar in a tragic case of mistaken identity.
