Lawrence M. Lombardi was sentenced to life plus 39 years in federal prison for setting off two pipe bombs in the bathrooms of Lee Hall and Perry Paige in 1999, but his sentence was reduced this afternoon to 54 years. Due to COVID-19, the re-sentencing hearing was held through a […]

Officials at Florida A&M University have instituted another curfew for all students living on campus. This comes after COVID-19 cases have increased nationally and locally in Tallahassee. A statement was released Friday by FAMU Dean of Students Bomani Spell stating the reasons for the curfew going back into effect. He […]

Amendment 2, which raises the minimum wage, passed with more than 60 percent of the vote statewide on Tuesday. According to this amendment, the minimum wage in Florida will go up to $10 per hour effective Sept. 30, 2021 and it will increase annually by one dollar until the minimum […]

With the presidential election coming to an end in two days, Jill Biden stopped by the capital city on the last day of early voting in Florida for a “Souls to the Polls” event. “Souls to the Polls” is an early voting initiative in which the Sunday before Election Day, […]

Payton Williams, a second-year business administration major at Florida A&M who lives in the Palmettos Phase 3 residence hall, was relieved when the university lifted the curfew for students living on campus this past Friday. “I feel like [the curfew] was put in place for those who don’t understand the […]

Florida A&M University has decided to cancel spring break for the 2020-2021 school year. This decision, announced earlier this afternoon, comes a day after Florida State University announced its new academic calendar for the spring semester which also includes the cancellation of  spring break. In a statement released by Maurice […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed legislation that would bring criminal offenses of up to third-degree felonies and jail time to anyone law enforcement finds participating in disorderly assemblies and partaking in violence. DeSantis said the proposal, which is called the Combatting Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection […]

FAMU’s College of Agriculture & Food Sciences has been granted two new grape patents. This is a huge accomplishment for the university and, more specifically, for the FAMU Center for Viticulture and Small Fruits Research. The researchers at the center have named these two new strains of muscadine grape plants: […]