Former Tallahassee Police Department officer, Charles Hansford, has been fired after slamming a handcuffed man into a concrete wall at the Leon County Detention facility.  On Jan. 18, Hansford and his partner, Edward Campbell, apprehended the man at 3 a.m. near the intersection of Blair Stone and Centerville. Upon responding […]

Many Americans have received booster shots in hopes of staying protected against COVID-19 Since many of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines are significantly less protective against new variants of COVID-19, researchers have suggested that a booster will restore protection.  These vaccines were developed to teach the human body to fight COVID-19. […]

The Florida Senate is poised to consider a bill which removes the back rent that most tenants are required to pay before starting their court process once evicted. Senate Bill 582 removes back rent pay, which waives a tenant’s defenses. In the revised version of the bill, the removed section […]

The first Starbucks store to unionize was last December in Buffalo, N.Y. It created a wave of action within Starbucks across the United States, and Florida’s first store — in Tallahassee — filed for a union election mid-January. Located on North Monroe Street just south of John Knox Road, the […]

Beginning in 2024, the SAT exam will become completely digital, shorter, and students will be allowed to use a calculator for the entire math section. On Jan. 25,2022, the College Board announced that the SAT will be taken digitally beginning in 2023 for international students and by 2024 for U.S. […]

Human sex traffickers are becoming more creatively discrete with tracking methods. Tallahassee residents are starting to worry that their community may be facing a repeated issue. In 2020, the Tallahassee Police Department closed the biggest commercial sex trafficking investigation in Tallahassee’s history. The exploitation of a teenage girl led to […]

The Florida Senate Committee on Health Policy, chaired by Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R-Hialeah), held a hearing Wednesday on controversial legislation — Senate Bill 146 — that would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks and expand the programs to reduce fetal and infant deaths. Republicans on a party-line vote rejected an […]

The stories of civil rights leaders who once called the City of Tallahassee their home are now carved in metal plaques. The Soul Voices: Frenchtown Heritage Trail is located along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to honor these Frenchtown heroes.  According to Visit Tallahassee, Frenchtown is the oldest Tallahassee community; […]

Florida state Senate Bill 184 was introduced by Sen. Manny Diaz Jr., R-Miami, and Sen. Ray Wesley Rodrigues, R-Lee, and it has the support of Gov. DeSantis. The bill aims to place restrictions on discussions involving race in Florida’s educational systems. For some this means in K-12 classrooms individuals may […]

Florida state Senator Danny Burgess, R-Tampa, has filed a bill that would give the United States Space Force a legitimate place in state law. Senate Bill 438 will be a revision of “uniformed service” to include the Space Force among the other branches of the military. The USSF was declared […]