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The group behind a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational marijuana will not appeal a judge’s decision upholding the invalidation of 200,000 petition signatures. (Julio Cortez, AP file)

Florida judge’s ruling on marijuana petition signatures won’t be appealed

November 25, 2025 at 4:26 p.m.

The group behind a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational marijuana will not appeal a judge’s decision upholding the invalidation of 200,000 petition signatures.

Siding with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, a Leon County circuit judge on Friday ruled that state officials did not err when ordering supervisors of elections to scrap more than 200,000 petition signatures supporting a proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana. (Smithore / Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Judge backs DeSantis administration, delivers blow to marijuana legalization effort

November 21, 2025 at 6:57 p.m.

A judge ruled that state officials did not err when ordering supervisors of elections to scrap more than 200,000 signatures supporting a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize pot.

State elections officials sent a proposed recreational-marijuana constitutional amendment to the Florida Attorney General, effectively putting an end to a lawsuit that backers of the measure filed to try to trigger a Florida Supreme Court review of the proposal. (Julio Cortez/AP file)

Pot proposal headed toward Florida Supreme Court review

November 18, 2025 at 1:26 p.m.

Elections officials sent a proposed recreational-marijuana constitutional amendment to Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office, effectively ending a lawsuit that supporters filed to try to trigger a Florida Supreme Court review...

Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady is leaving the bench to join the University of Florida as director of the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. (Florida Supreme Court/Courtesy)

Florida Supreme Court justice resigning to take job at UF

November 17, 2025 at 7:16 p.m.

The longest-serving current member of the Florida Supreme Court, Justice Charles Canady, is leaving the bench for a post at the University of Florida.

Saying “the First Amendment is not absolute,” a federal judge rejected an initial attempt to require state officials to reinstate a biologist who was fired because of a social media post after the murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, seen here at an Oct. 24, 2024, campaign rally in Las Vegas. (John Locher/AP file)

Judge rejects initial request to reinstate Florida biologist after Kirk social media post

November 14, 2025 at 4:35 p.m.

A federal judge rejected an initial attempt to require state officials to reinstate a biologist who was fired because of a social media post after the murder of conservative leader...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Aug. 15 issued an emergency rule prohibiting the alkaloid 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, and adding it to the list of the state’s most dangerous drugs. The ban on the concentrated byproduct of kratom, which was sold in smoke shops throughout the state, went into effect immediately. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

Florida ban on smoke shop product considered similar to opioid challenged

November 12, 2025 at 6:27 p.m.

Companies that sell a byproduct of kratom, known as 7-OH, and users of the substance are challenging an emergency rule banning its sale and manufacture in Florida.

Judge weighs biologist’s First Amendment challenge to her firing over Kirk post

November 10, 2025 at 7:02 p.m.

Attorneys for a biologist who was fired because of a social media post after the murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk squared off against lawyers for the state of Florida...

Executions in Florida are carried out at the Florida State Prison in Starke. (Curt Anderson, AP file)

DeSantis signs death warrant in 1989 murder of Panama City Beach mother

November 7, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.

Mark Allen Geralds is scheduled to be executed Dec. 9 for the murder of Tressa Lynn Pettibone, a 33-year-old Panama City Beach mother who was beaten and stabbed to death...

A law that took effect this year gives pregnant and postpartum women access to disabled parking spaces with a temporary state-issued placard. (Palm Beach County Tax Collector's Office/Courtesy)

Parking permits for pregnant women challenged by disability-rights advocates

November 4, 2025 at 12:43 p.m.

Disability-rights advocates are challenging a new state law allowing pregnant women to use parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities, saying the measure violates federal protections.

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of convicted child killer Bryan Frederick Jennings, arguing Florida’s death-warrant process is “wholly perfunctory and has rendered the right of (legal) representation meaningless.” (Florida Department of Corrections/Courtesy)

Halt to Florida execution sought over legal representation

October 24, 2025 at 4:24 p.m.

Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s death-warrant process “has rendered the right of (legal) representation meaningless.”

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