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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday formally received nine bills from the Legislature, including a school-safety bill that would direct the State Board of Education to develop rules for school emergency drills.
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The pandemic got more people riding bikes, but the number of cyclists hit and killed by cars is rising at an alarming rate. "We're buying materials for ghost bikes in bulk," one cycling advocate says.
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There are more boats on Florida’s waters, more inexperienced captains, and more people living in the state than ever before. Add to that mix new boat owners, most without enough education and training, and the results are proving deadly.
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The Miya Marcano Foundation was formed to spread awareness on apartment safety, provide resources to the families of missing people, and support legislation that would offer greater protections for people living in apartment complexes.
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The 17 victims of Sunday's blaze ranged from 2 to 50 years old. The dead included 11 people from Gambia. Many families are now struggling to prepare for their loved ones' funerals.
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The shooting at Oxford, Mich., drew attention to the school's lockdown drills and how students were trained to respond to such crises. But certain high-intensity drills can have negative impacts, too.
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Lawmakers want apartment complexes to do more to protect tenants after the death of Miya Marcano. 19-year-old Marcano was murdered earlier this year. Police say a maintenance worker who later killed
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The failed ballot measure proposed a new Department of Public Safety that would emphasize a public health approach to policing.
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OSHA, the small, chronically understaffed federal agency in charge of workplace safety, now faces a big challenge: enforcing a federal vaccine rule covering 80 million workers.
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Under the new guidance to ICE and other agencies, simply being present in the U.S. without legal authorization "should not alone be the basis" for immigration authorities to arrest or deport someone.
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Members of an obscure Miami-Dade County board are pushing to work through the backlog in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.
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Leaders from cities and towns in Broward County, that contract with BSO for police and/or fire rescue services, complain that BSO has high costs, no transparency, and cities have no control over staffing etc. No one from the agency showed up to Wednesday's meeting.