It started as a headline that most people didn’t read. The “novel coronavirus” was first detected overseas and despite officials warning of its likely spread, many Americans were unconcerned. On Jan. 20, the first case was identified in the United States.
Six weeks later, an elderly Santa Rosa man became Florida’s second fatality. He had a history of international travel and preexisting health conditions, according to information released by the governor.
LaMarcus Smith might have wondered at times what he had gotten himself into. Joining a college football team that didn’t win a game the previous year isn’t exactly ideal.
But Smith stayed the course at Ave Maria, an NAIA school in South Florida, and it paid off.
Six years ago, newlywed Tammy Kuss ended up on a “little rock in the Pacific Ocean” known as Guam with her military husband.
Friends and family were 3,000 miles away, and she had to learn how to transition from life as a single woman to sharing everything, including a home.
Sen. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, is again pursuing legislation that would require 6-year-old children to be in car seats or booster seats, raising the age in state law by one year. As he’s done for the past three years, Perry on Wednesday filed a measure (SB 380) to raise the age in which children must be in crash-tested, federally approved car seats or booster seats when riding in vehicles. The bill is filed for consideration during the 2021 legislative session, which will begin in March.
Currently, children through age 3 are required to be in car seats. Children ages 4 and 5 can be in car seats or booster seats. Perry’s proposal would also require children to be strapped into booster seats or car seats when they are 6. Perry’s 2020 version of the bill stalled after getting support from two Senate committees. A House version was backed by one committee.
