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Are we talking regular-season NFL overtime, or the playoffs? Are we debating whether NFL OT is superior to the college variety? Are we concerned about getting the game finished before someone gets hurt or determining a just winner? MORE: Five OT formats that would work for NFL Sometimes it appears the misdirection is strategic. If one can cloud the conversation with extraneous elements, one never gets to the core of the issue....

Newton spent the previous 10 years with the Wizards, most recently serving as vice president of player personnel. He worked closely with Saunders when Saunders was the head coach for the Wizards, and quickly became a prime candidate to make the move to Minnesota when Saunders took over this summer for the fired David Kahn. "I have followed Milt closely during his career and have always been impressed with his basketball knowledge, work ethic and professionalism," Saunders said in a statement issued by the team....

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, all of which are led by Republican governors, were among the earliest in the country to begin reopening amid the ongoing pandemic. Several of these governors were also slow to issue stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders urged by public health experts, even as the novel virus was spreading in their states. Now, as all 50 states have taken steps to reopen, those five states and several others have seen an increase in new confirmed cases of the virus....

According to a report from Brett McMurphy, the two schools have agreed to a home-and-home series in 2024-25, meeting first in Gainesville, and then in Miami Gardens. Such a series would be the first consecutive home-and-home games between Florida and Miami since 2002-03, both of which were won by the Hurricanes. MORE: Top 25 nonconference games of 2019 Florida and Miami meet on Aug. 24 to open the 2019 season in Orlando....

The findings were documented in the Everglades National Park, where bobcats are native. Burmese pythons, however, arrived in the Everglades unnaturally and are considered an “invasive” species, having been set loose from breeding facilities in the 1980s and 1990s. Since living within the Everglades, the snakes have caused a 90 percent decline in native mammal populations. Scientists are concerned they will take prey away from other native predators. Photos captured by camera traps set up by the USGS in June 2021 are the first-ever documentation of a native Everglades animal preying on the eggs and facing the serpent head-on....

The task force was formed by The Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the bar, convening lawyers who deal with condominium and association laws. Its purpose was to recommend ways to prevent future failures, not to investigate or place blame for the 12-story building collapse. “The lack of uniform maintenance standards or protocols, and the unguided discretion given to boards of directors to determine when, how, and if life safety inspections should be performed, requires legislative intervention,” concluded the 179-page report that was released earlier this week....

The deputy from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) was responding to a structure fire at a residence on Princess Dolores Drive when he heard “scratching from behind the front door,” the FCSO said in a Facebook post sharing a video of the incident. “Deputy Jekovich quickly broke the door, allowing the dog to escape the home, which was fully engulfed in flames,” the post said. In the video, the officer can be heard shouting “There’s a dog right here, can I open that door?...

“We recognized early in Coach Mac’s tenure that he totally changed the vibe around football for the Gator nation and in the building,” athletic director Jeremy Foley said in the release. “(University president) Dr. (Kent) Fuchs and I first talked about this in mid-October — we didn’t want to make it about winning one game or advancing to the SEC Championship Game. MORE: Bama built to win it (again) | Can Muschamp get most of QB?...

The National Weather Service (NWS) in both Miami and Tampa Bay issued several tornado warnings as Hurricane Ian continued to travel closer to the state. In a tweet, the National Weather Service in Miami confirmed that a tornado touched down near Pembroke Pines. “This is now a CONFIRMED tornado. Radar data indicates debris. Take cover if in the warning! Will move very close to the path of the previous tornado,” NWS Miami said....

The figures from the Division of Elections website showed that of the more than 2 million mail-in voting ballots sent in, about 49 percent of them were from Democrats. About 30 percent of the ballots submitted were from Republicans, and approximately 20 percent were from people with other party affiliations or no party affiliation. As of Saturday morning, 2,423,573 people had sent in ballots, with about 1,190,508 of them Democrats and 730,123 of them Republicans....

Donald Robinson Reid, Jr., was detained on Saturday after being pulled for a traffic stop, DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office said in a media release posted to Facebook the same day. An image that was released by the department showed a handgun, a machine gun and two bullet clips. According to law enforcement officials, officers found an M67 hand grenade with the pin in place. Reid told the detectives at the scene he believed the grenade to be “live....

In a Friday report, neighbor Misty Cintron told WFTS that her family began to fear for their safety two weeks ago when they noticed their neighbor building a gun range near their home in rural Weeki Wachi, Florida. Although the range appears to be technically legal in the state, Cintron said “I think a sane person would not even remotely consider doing this.” Florida law allows homeowners to build and use a shooting range as long as their land extends beyond an acre....

Ramon Christopher Blanchett, 29, bought a 2016 Lexus RC350 with part of the $980,000 refund. Over the next two filing seasons for 2017 and 2018, Blanchett claimed he was owed a total of $492,211, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The government filed a civil forfeiture action this January after seizing $919,421 from his account and his Lexus. In September, he was accused of felony theft of government funds, and he could face up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday....

Grant Amato, 30, of Chuluota, will instead spend life in prison without parole after Monday’s verdict by the Seminole County courthouse jury, which decided after three hours of deliberations not to recommend a death sentence, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Amato shot dead his parents Chad Amato, 59, and Margaret Ann Amato, 61, as well as his brother Cody Amato, 31, at their home on January 24 following an argument about stealing the money he had sent to the webcam model....

Eugene Bozzi, 36, who is an army veteran from Philadelphia, was hailed as a hero earlier this month after he was filmed using a waste container to capture the six-foot gator outside his home in Orange County. A video of his ingenious capture of the potentially dangerous reptile has been viewed 170,000 times on Bozzi’s official Instagram account and over 4.5 million times on Twitter. CNN’s Chris Cuomo was among those to praise his efforts, claiming Bozzi was able to pull off the feat on account of his Italian last name....

A local group of mothers and their allies known as Concerned Parents of Sarasota Schools showed up in force to a Sarasota County School Board meeting last night to protest the Black Lives Matter movement being taught in the classroom. They wore matching red t-shirts and carried signs with messages like “#TakingBackOurSchools” and parentsfedup.com, their website, which spells out their message that BLM is a Marxist organization designed to indoctrinate the youth, that the dangers of COVID-19 are exaggerated, and that local legislators who changed their party registration to Democrat from Republicans are “traitors....

Syerra Ward, 18, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with aggravated child abuse, Lee County Sheriff’s Office documents show. The incident occurred on September 26 at Odyssey Preschool Academy on 4246 Evans Ave in the city of Fort Myers, western Florida, NBC 2 reported. The child’s mother collected her from the academy on September 26, according to an arrest affidavit seen by NBC 2. The girl had ice pressed against her shoulder and was crying....

The “Individual Freedom” bill, which passed the state Senate in a 24-15 vote, seeks to ban any teachings or training that can cause feelings of “guilt” in an individual because of their “race, color, sex or national origin.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now expected to sign the legislation into law. The bill’s passage highlights efforts in several U.S. states to adopt legislation that limits discussions of certain racial topics, with the term “critical race theory” often invoked, in classrooms and beyond....

“As a Senator, and more importantly, as a life-long member of this community, I fully understand the responsibility and impact of words on others. That’s why I want to apologize to anyone I offended by my comments on the floor of the Senate during the debate on HB 1557, Parental Rights in Education,” she said in a statement posted on Twitter. House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill, passed in the Republican-controlled Florida Senate on March 8 after it was approved by the state’s House of Representatives....