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House, Senate divided on legal issues

5 days ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Jim Saunders

TALLAHASSEE — As the 2025 legislative session enters its final weeks, the Florida House and Senate are divided about a series of potentially high-stakes issues involving personal-injury and insurance lawsuits. The House has supported changes that could lead to people collecting increased damages in personal-injury and wrongful-death cases and force insurers to pay more in attorney fees. The Senate, however, has taken little action on the issues. The dynamic has been on display this week.
South Lake Chamber visits Groveland

6 days ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Sharon Keeble

During an entertaining South Lake Chamber of Commerce breakfast hosted by Groveland, members were treated to updates on the ‘city with natural charm.’Groveland City Manager Mike Hein and Mayor Keith Keogh provided a sold-out audience with the past year’s news at the event on April 18 at the Puryear Building on S Lake Ave. Chamber members were also treated to locally made honey and blueberry jam, gifts of seeds from Waterwell Farms and locally grown flowers that adorned the tables.
A glimmer of hope for Democrats

6 days ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Bill Cotterell

There’s a bitter irony in unrelated headlines coming out of the April Fools’ Day special elections. In Washington, Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey got a well-deserved round of applause and loud cheers from the visitors gallery of the U.S. Senate as he set a record for holding the floor for 25 hours and five minutes in a wide-ranging denunciation of all things MAGA.
Trump says Federal Reserve Chair Powell's 'termination cannot come fast enough'

6 days ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Aamer Madhani |Josh Boak

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday, reiterating his frustration that the Fed has not aggressively cut interest rates and saying that the central bank leader’s “termination cannot come fast enough.”Trump hinted at moving to fire Powell, whose term does not expire until next year.
Japan reports a $63 billion trade surplus with the US as it talks with Trump on tariffs

6 days ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Yuri Kageyama

TOKYO (AP) — Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry reported Thursday. Japan's global trade deficit totaled $37 billion for the fiscal year through March, for the fourth straight year of deficits, according to the provisional statistics. The surplus with the U.S. ballooned to $63 billion.
Trump says he's in 'no rush' to end tariffs

6 days ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Colleen Barry |Josh Boak

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is in “no rush” to reach any trade deals because of the revenues his tariffs are generating, but suggested while meeting with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni that it would be easy to find an agreement with the European Union and others.
Shoe them some love!

1 week ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Sharon Keeble

A Groveland food pantry is collecting new and gently used shoes to raise funds to buy supplies to feed the community. Love Groveland, a nonprofit outreach program, has teamed up with another organization Funds2Orgs who pay the charity for bags of shoes collected. The shoes are then sold for pennies in developing countries such as Haiti where Funds2Orgs works with individuals to create small businesses to provide economic opportunity.
Doty files for rehearing in election suit

1 week ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Marc Valero

Chris Doty’s election-lawsuit attorney has filed a motion for a rehearing after a judge ruled they are responsible for the court costs incurrent by Superintendent Brenda Longshore. In his motion, Anthony Sabatini noted the court granted an order for sanctions on March 26. “The order contains a substantive error, namely, the court never addressed or even mentioned the ‘good faith’ safety provision contained within the sanctions statute and cited numerous times by plaintiff,” according to Sabatini.
Israeli defense minister says troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely

1 week ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Isaac Scharf |Wafaa Shurafa

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s defense minister said Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks that could further complicate talks with Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage release. Israeli forces have taken over more than half of Gaza in a renewed campaign to pressure Hamas to release hostages after Israel ended their ceasefire last month.
'Juvenile Lifers' lose parole challenge

1 week ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Jim Saunders

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected a constitutional challenge to the state’s parole system by inmates who were sent to prison decades ago for crimes they committed as juveniles. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling in a class-action lawsuit that alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment and due-process rights.