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Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day the measure was signed, in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.
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Construction on the long-awaited visitor's center in Everglades City begins September 30th with the halting of onsite concession services including boat tours and rentals.
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Families who lost loved ones in the the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school massacre are being given the chance to tour the classroom building before it is demolished.
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The Everglades National Park celebrates its 75th anniversary this week. To mark the occasion, we take a look at stunning images that show the history of the park and its majestic beauty – including photographs from our readers and listeners.
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Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week — but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think.
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Plans to open the house to the public as a museum have stalled for nearly 25 years.
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The jury will be absent this week as the sides argue before Judge Scherer, who will decide whether brain scans, tests and other evidence of the confessed Parkland school shooter the defense wants to present starting Aug. 22 is scientifically valid or junk, as the prosecution contends.
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Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s 17 victims gave heartrending testimony Monday about how their 2018 deaths at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have affected their lives, detailing lost loves, lost moments and even fading memories.
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Opening statements begin on Monday. A jury faces two options to punish the person responsible for killing 17 people in 2018: life in prison or the death penalty.
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The third and final phase of jury selection for the parkland school shooter continues Thursday. Lawyers asked jurors more specific questions about themselves. Twenty jurors will be selected, that includes eight alternates.
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Rare normalcy returned to jury selection for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s penalty trial Tuesday, one day after his public defenders threatened to withdraw over the judge’s insistence that they proceed without a key member who had COVID-19.
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As a national debate rages over gun laws after last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, proponents of “red-flag” policies point to a Florida law as a model for states seeking to strip deadly weapons from people who could cause harm.