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Live Oak residents facing 7.5% tax increase

JAMIE WACHTER
Monday, August 29, 2022
LIVE OAK — Add one — or six — additional places where Live Oak residents are about to pay more. At a budget workshop Aug. 23, the Live Oak City Council gave consensus to city administration to move forward with its budget preparations for Fiscal Year 2022-23 with a millage rate of 9.
Florida imposed a new rule concerning the amount of marijuana consumers can purchase over a 35-day span. (COURTESY/News Service of Florida)

Florida imposed a new rule concerning the amount of marijuana consumers can purchase over a 35-day span. (COURTESY/News Service of Florida)

State sets medical marijuana dosage, supply limits

NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
Monday, August 29, 2022
TALLAHASSEE — Florida health officials have released a highly anticipated rule setting THC dosage amounts and supply limits on products doctors can order for medical-marijuana patients.
An aerial view of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate taken Aug. 10, 2022. (STEVE HELBER/AP File)

An aerial view of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate taken Aug. 10, 2022. (STEVE HELBER/AP File)

US: Review of possibly privileged Trump papers already over

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, August 29, 2022
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a...
NASA’s new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B minutes after the launch was scrubbed on Monday in Cape Canaveral. (CHRIS O’MEARA/Associated Press)

NASA’s new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B minutes after the launch was scrubbed on Monday in Cape Canaveral. (CHRIS O’MEARA/Associated Press)

NASA scrubs launch of new moon rocket after engine problem

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, August 29, 2022
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Monday after a last-minute cascade of problems culminating in unexplained trouble related to an engine.
Pages from the affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate are photographed Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched Trump's estate to look for classified documents. (JON ELSWICK/Associated Press)

Pages from the affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate are photographed Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched Trump's estate to look for classified documents. (JON ELSWICK/Associated Press)

FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, August 26, 2022
WASHINGTON — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.

Byrd secures Lafayette BOCC seat

JAMIE WACHTER
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
MAYO — The Lafayette County Commission will have a new member, while the Lafayette County School Board race is still undecided. Henry McCray, the current commissioner from District 2, was defeated Tuesday during the primary election by Republican challenger Mason Byrd.