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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 2024, Gov. Ron DeSantis withdrew from the U.S. presidential race in a post on X.

Today is Florida Tourism Day. Leaders in the tourism industry will spend today advocating to lawmakers in Tallahassee about the sector's economic importance while highlighting Florida's attractions and the significant revenue tourism generates for the state.

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Lawmakers Address Mobile Home Rent Increases

Florida lawmakers are considering legislation that would require mobile home park owners to justify rent increases and boost relocation assistance for displaced residents, potentially affecting over 800,000 mobile home residents across the state.

HB 703 and SB 1550 would require park owners to provide detailed proof, such as invoices and cost breakdowns, when raising lot rental fees. Park owners who reduce amenities without corresponding rent reductions could face penalties.

Under the bills, courts would gain expanded authority to evaluate rent increases, including active sales within parks, special discounts offered to new buyers, and the number of homes abandoned to avoid eviction in the previous 12 months.

Uthmeier: Affirmative Action Laws Unconstitutional

Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Monday that Florida laws requiring affirmative action in state hiring and contracting are unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment, and that his office will not defend or enforce them.

In a formal opinion, Uthmeier argued the statutes violate the amendment's equal protection clause and the Florida Constitution's ban on discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or disability.

"Racial discrimination is wrong. It is also unconstitutional. Yet Florida maintains several laws on its books that promote and require discrimination on its face," Uthmeier said in the opinion.

Uthmeier's likely opponent in the upcoming attorney general race, former State Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez, was quick to condemn Monday's announcement: "It is troubling that our Florida Attorney General has chosen, of all days, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day to announce an effort to undermine civil rights."

$1M Payout for Wrongfully Convicted Man

A judge ruled that a man convicted of a Brevard County murder in 2002 should be paid over $1 million in restitution, after DNA testing resulted in his conviction and sentence being overturned.

Judge Lisa Shearer Nelson issued a 12-page recommended order that said Jeffrey Abramowski should be compensated under a law that allows victims to receive $50,000 for each year they were wrongfully incarcerated.

Abramowski spent about 23 years in prison after a jury convicted him in 2006 of fatally beating Cortney Crandall. A circuit judge overturned Abramowski's conviction last April, and the state decided not to retry the case.

The ruling needs final approval from a circuit court, but Abramowski could get roughly $1.1 million.

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➤ Duval County: Multiple state House members of the county's legislative delegation or their staff received an email Sunday morning threatening to bomb their offices and shoot people there unless they made a ransom payment. (More)

➤ Tallahassee: A senior adviser to Gov. DeSantis acknowledged that she spent months politically advising gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, then abruptly cut ties, calling the episode a serious error in judgment. (More)

➤ Orange County: The school board approved the sale of the 2.5-acre Fort Gatlin site for $600,000 to an anonymous buyer who plans to turn the property into a public park. (See Details)

➤ Sarasota: After her boyfriend, Alan Porter West, moved out, a woman found several containers of suspicious contents in her garage, which were determined by police to be bomb-making materials. West has been arrested and is being held on a $1 million bond. (More)

➤ Winter Park: City leaders approved the Park Avenue Refresh, a $2.5 million multi-year project to improve the street's safety and curb appeal. The project was started on Tuesday and will affect Webster Avenue to Garfield Avenue. (More)

➤ Palm Beach County: At a Bloomberg event, real estate mogul Stephen Ross said he sees the county becoming something like Silicon Valley, filled with technology and engineering professionals, including those fleeing California's high taxes. (More)

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➤ The Miami Dolphins hired Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley as their next head coach. Hafley is the eighth straight Dolphins coach hired without NFL head coaching experience. (More)

➤ FOX Sports' RJ Young released his Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings for the 2026 college football season, placing the Miami Hurricanes at No. 7, best in the ACC. (See List)

➤ Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky threw punches with Sharks goalie Alex Nedeljkovic in their game this week, the first goalie-on-goalie fight since the 2020 NHL season. (See Fight)

➤ Elijah Haven, the nation's No. 1 high school quarterback recruit, named Florida as one of his top four schools along with Georgia, Auburn, and Alabama. (More)

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➤ Lion Country Safari's KOA campground will close following the sale of the property to the family of Larry Ellison. The campground, which borders the park, will cease operations on April 30 with all reservations beyond that date refunded. (More)

➤ Avelo Airlines announced it is extending its summer flight schedule for six Central Florida airports through Aug. 18. (More)

➤ A Tampa man launched a business called Sea Lime Lures from his garage and earned a patent for his water-channeled technology, which mimics the swimming action of fish. (More)

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➤ A $22 million drug bust in Miami Lakes in 2016 inspired Netflix's new movie The Rip, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. (More)

➤ An Italian filmmaker, convicted in 2000 of murdering an Australian hotelier on Miami's Virginia Key, has been granted a work release and was transferred from Everglades Correctional Institution to Italy, where he will now leave prison daily to make pizzas and teach windsurfing. (More)

➤ The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences extension in Pinellas County hosted a nest box building for eastern screech owls, the smallest owl in Florida, whose population has declined over the last ten years. (See Video)

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