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Sign up | | Oscar winners | UCF, UF in NCAA Tournament | Duckett family tragedies | Florida election lawGood morning. It's Monday, March 16, 2026. The weather forecast calls for rain with a high of 82 and a low of 62. Click here for more weather. | | | | The ceremony also saw Michael B. Jordan win best actor in "Sinners" and Jessie Buckley win best actress for her performance as Agnes Shakespeare in "Hamnet." | | | | | "One Battle After Another" won best picture, director and the first-ever casting award. | | | | | Here's what the nominees and attendees wore at the 98th Academy Awards. | | | | | The Knights will face UCLA in Philadelphia as part of the East Region. | | | | | The Florida Gators landed the No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament's South Region and will open their national title defense Friday in Tampa. | | | | | As the elder James Aren Duckett awaits his execution at the end of this month, his lawyers have scrambled for a last-minute stay based on new DNA testing. | | | | | Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans say the state's election laws are best in the country. They're acceding to President Donald Trump's priorities and adding new restrictions. | | | | | The six U.S. service members killed last week when a refueling plane involved in the war with Iran crashed in western Iraq. | | | | | Iran's Foreign Minister said Tehran has been 'approached by a number of countries' seeking safe passage for vessels | | | | | Let's just summarize it this way: When lawmakers finally adjourned Friday afternoon and stopped voting, it was the best news to come out of Tallahassee in weeks. | | | | | A "Homecoming" series of events, including a fundraiser, marks the return of the Renaissance Theatre Company to its home on Princeton Street. | | | | | Deerfield Beach lawyer Peter Ticktin has written both a proposed executive order to control the midterm elections and some questionable poetry, reports columnist Pat Beall. | | | | | A closing ceremony boycotted by Ukraine signaled the end of the Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics on Sunday, hours after the U.S. Para ice hockey team won the final gold medal of the Games that were marked by the return of the Russian flag and national anthem to […] | | | | | The CEOs of the nation's top airline companies, including American, Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers including airport security officers during the partial government shutdown. "Once again, air […] | | | |
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