By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up for auction. "You are wonderful and I miss you," Kennedy scribbled at the end of a February 1956 letter to aristocrat ...
By Danielle J. Brown https://www.floridaphoenix.com Florida’s early-education system will see significant changes in hopes of better preparing the state’s youngest learners, as Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills from the 2021 legislative session focused on improving pre-kindergarten ...
By Issac Morgan Florida Phoenix Tackling the youth tobacco epidemic is a top priority for health groups hoping to prevent addiction and diseases associated with tobacco use among young people. That issue was addressed, in part, when lawmakers in Florida voted during the recent ...
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press A national effort helping to bail poor and low-income people out of jail formally announced on Tuesday its expansion into the Deep South. " Bail Out the South" is the next phase of the Bail Project's plans to secure freedom for thousands of people over the ...
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, who served as Florida governor for a single term before running other offices, is seeking the state's highest office once again — this time as a Democrat. After releasing videos Tuesday confirming his ...
SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — A Texas lawyer known as the "DWI Dude" has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug traffickers he'd get their charges reduced or dismissed in exchange for cash, prosecutors said. Jamie Balagia, 65, was sentenced Monday ...
YULEE (AP) — Former circus elephants are starting to arrive at a new wildlife sanctuary in north Florida. The White Oak Conservation Center announced Monday that a dozen female Asian elephants have already arrived at the Yulee refuge, located north of Jacksonville. Up to 20 more elephants ...
By ALEXIA FERN¡NDEZ CAMPBELL and JOE YERARDI The Center for Public Integrity Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages. When a recession hits, U.S. companies ...
MIAMI (AP) — A woman was killed and her 3-year-old daughter was injured in a drive-by shooting at an apartment complex near Miami, police said. Someone in a dark gray sedan pulled up to Coral Bay Cove on Monday afternoon and started shooting at Leshonte Jones, 24, Miami-Dade police told news ...
ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — The co-founder and artistic director of the St. Petersburg Ballet Conservatory has been arrested on battery and molestation charges after investigators said he had "an inappropriate sexual relationship" with a student. St. Petersburg police arrested Servy Gallardo, ...