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Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried announced her candicacy for governor on Tuesday. (DAMON HIGGINS/Palm Beach Post/TNS)

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried announced her candicacy for governor on Tuesday. (DAMON HIGGINS/Palm Beach Post/TNS)

Fried announces run for governor

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried announced Tuesday she’ll seek the Democratic nomination for governor, calling Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis an authoritarian who’s putting his party and political ambition ahead of Floridians.

Driving with hazard lights on now OK

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, May 31, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — For years, Florida has been reminding motorists not to use flashing hazard lights while driving. Well starting soon, feel free to flash away — but only on the highway. And only in heavy rain or fog.

Hurricane season starts Tuesday

NEWS STAFF
Friday, May 28, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — It’s that time of year again. The six-month hurricane season starts Tuesday, with experts predicting an above-average year for storms. Nobody knows for sure what will happen. Chances are, things will be relatively quiet until August.
Frenock

Frenock

Former LO fire chief recalled as ‘good guy’

JAMIE WACHTER
Friday, May 28, 2021
LIVE OAK — Andy Frenock didn’t have a long stint as Live Oak fire chief, but his impact has been felt far longer. Frenock, 70, who died Tuesday in a motorcycle wreck in southeastern Suwannee County, served as the chief of the Live Oak Fire Department from 2000 until July 2002.
President Joe Biden speaks on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College Manufacturing Technology Center, on Thursday in Cleveland. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

President Joe Biden speaks on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College Manufacturing Technology Center, on Thursday in Cleveland. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Biden’s $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, May 28, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class, but his generosity depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to keep the nation’s spiking debt from spiraling totally out of...

Late night wreck kills one

NEWS STAFF
Friday, May 28, 2021
LIVE OAK — A Live Oak man was killed in a single-vehicle accident late Thursday night in northern Suwannee County. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 46-year-old Live Oak man was driving north on 153rd Road when his pickup ran through a stop sign at County Road 132.

LO man arrested for cruelty toward a child

NEWS STAFF
Friday, May 28, 2021
LIVE OAK — Hitting a child multiple times, including to the face and head, led to the arrest of a Live Oak man this week. A Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office report states Kent John Severson, 52, struck a male juvenile’s body repeatedly Tuesday evening.
This false-color X-ray and radio frequency image made available by NASA on Friday, May 28, 2021 shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays detected by the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are in orange, green, blue and purple, and radio data from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa are shown in lilac and gray. The plane of the galaxy is horizontal, in the center of this vertical image. (NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang)

This false-color X-ray and radio frequency image made available by NASA on Friday, May 28, 2021 shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays detected by the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are in orange, green, blue and purple, and radio data from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa are shown in lilac and gray. The plane of the galaxy is horizontal, in the center of this vertical image. (NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang)

NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, May 28, 2021
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.”