Jesse SchecknerMarch 18, 2024
5min0
A plurality of voters agreed that the U.S. needs to better enforce its immigration laws and deport those who enter the country illegally.
Tag: violent crime
Jesse SchecknerMarch 18, 2024
Peter SchorschJuly 19, 2023
8min0
But the city disputes the study's numbers.
Tristan WoodFebruary 5, 2022
3min0
The rate of passing 3rd grade reading scores dropped from 61% to 54% from 2019 to 2021.
Associated PressJune 15, 2021
18min1468
Military pistols, machine guns, assault rifles, armor-piercing grenades were lost or stolen.
Drew WilsonJune 7, 2018
2min1480
A new report based on FBI data lists Tallahassee as the tenth worst city in the country when it comes to property crime rates. The FBI defines property crime as burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft, however the Reviews.org report excluded vehicle related crimes in preparing its report. With those out of the mix, it […]
Danny McAuliffeNovember 20, 2017
10min416
Tallahassee Democrat Publisher Skip Foster shared a familiar message to the Capital Tiger Bay Club on Monday: The night is always darkest just before the dawn. To be clear, the publisher of the paper of record for the capital city didn’t verbatim quote the famous line from “The Dark Knight” or evenly remotely reference it. […]
Peter SchorschMay 31, 2017
4min2006
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum received some possibly unsettling news this week. The Democratic candidate for governor, who has led Tallahassee since November 2014, learned that his city is the most dangerous in Florida. That dubious distinction came by way of a survey from the blog 24/7 Wall St, which reviewed data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report […]
Associated PressApril 9, 2017
9min229
The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned. The review follows attacks by people who were once on the FBI’s radar but who have been […]
Scott PowersDecember 29, 2016
19min324
Story co-written by Orlando-Rising staff reporters Scott Powers and Lawrence Griffin. In Orlando, 2016 will always be remembered as the year of the Pulse gay nightclub massacre, and Pulse redefined everything; but it’s not the only major event to have shaped politics in Orlando during the year. Here are a few events that defined politics […]
Associated PressOctober 12, 2016
4min191
Relatives of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting victims, as well as the parents of the gunman, will be given the chance to speak at a hearing on whether all the 911 calls from the massacre can be made public. A judge on Monday issued an order setting a hearing when relatives of the 49 deceased […]