Jim Saunders

TALLAHASSEE — Backers of a proposed recreational marijuana constitutional amendment filed a lawsuit Dec. 29 challenging directives by state elections officials that invalidated about 71,000 petition signatures.

After Florida set a modern-era record in 2025 by carrying out 19 executions, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1989 murder of a man in Alachua County.

FLORIDA – Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling a penalty on the National Football League, claiming its policies encouraging teams to hire nonwhite coaches violate Florida's employment laws banning discrimination.

A Leon County judge weighed arguments on rewriting a proposed property tax amendment for the November ballot.

Rejecting environmental group arguments, a federal appeals court upheld the EPA's decision to allow phosphogypsum in a Central Florida road project.

Attorney General James Uthmeier released a revised ballot title and summary for Amendment 3 after a judge's order to address concerns about the wording.

Citing new legal guidance, the U.S. Department of Justice will no longer defend the legal theory that secured an injunction requiring Florida to provide more private-duty nursing for medically fragile children.

A federal judge blocked Florida International University from disciplining students who protested an immigration enforcement agreement, citing First Amendment rights.

Florida's State Board of Education proposed public school AI guidelines to ensure academic integrity and parental consent.

A U.S. district judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit by Florida and Texas challenging abortion drug approvals, but stayed the case pending an FDA review.