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Dan Durica gestures during an interview at the Sweetwater Community Farm Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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Drought vs deluge: Florida's unusual rainfall totals either too little or too much on each coast
By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press
Thu,12/07/23-11:00PM , 108 Reads
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, this year has been a tale of two states as far as rainfall totals, with the southeast coast deluged by sometimes-record rainfall and much of the Gulf of Mexico coast facing a drought.
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A pair of Green Sea Turtle hatchings make their way to the Atlantic Ocean in this Aug. 8, 2023, photo at the Canaveral Sea Shore in Cape Canaveral, Fla. By most measures, it was a banner year for sea turtle nests at beaches around the U.S., including record numbers for some species in Florida and elsewhere. Yet the positive picture for turtles is tempered by climate change threats, including higher sand temperatures that produce fewer males, changes in ocean currents that disrupt their journeys and increasingly severe storms that wash away nests. (Stella Maris/Florida Space Coast Office of Tourism via AP)

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Sea turtle nests break records on US beaches, but global warming threatens their survival
By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press
Thu,11/23/23-11:00PM , 170 Reads
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs over the past several months.
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A witch hat, left, and an unidentified object are shown in the street near evidence markers in the Ybor City section of Tampa, Fla., after a shooting, Oct. 29, 2023. Shootings across the U.S. over the party weekend before Halloween have left at least 11 people dead and more than 70 injured. Authorities say the deaths between Friday and Sunday included two in Tampa, Florida, three in Texarkana, Texas, and two each in Kansas, San Antonio, Texas and Mansfield, Ohio. Many involved altercations arising from Halloween celebrations, including the mass shooting in Tampa’s Ybor City section early Sunday as bars were closing and scores of people in costumes spilled out on the streets. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)

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Halloween weekend shootings across US leave at least 11 dead, scores injured
By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press
Mon,10/30/23-11:38AM , 115 Reads
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Shootings across the U.S. over the weekend before Halloween have left at least 11 people dead and more than 70 injured, authorities said.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. The fate of abortion rights in Florida is at stake Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 when the state Supreme Court takes up a challenge to a law banning the procedure in most cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which will determine whether an even stricter six-week ban signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis can take effect. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

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Florida abortion rights at stake as state Supreme Court takes up challenge to GOP-led restrictions
By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press
Fri,09/08/23-12:11AM , 141 Reads
The Florida Supreme Court was confronted Friday with whether to overrule broad abortion rights protections provided for decades under the state constitution and instead uphold a law signed by Republ
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