“Florida” on The Daily Caller

A judge in Sanford ruled Tuesday that a Lake Mary man was lawfully exercising his First Amendment rights when he flashed his headlights to warn neighbors that a deputy had set up a speed trap nearby. (more)

Environmental groups are attacking the secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, claiming he has a conflict of interest because of his previous work handling water pollution matters. (more)

TAMPA, Fla. –  Florida’s local election supervisors on Wednesday sounded skeptical, and even distrustful, of a push by the state to remove thousands of potential non-U.S. citizens from the voting rolls just months before the critical 2012 elections. (more)

The Department of Homeland Security is stonewalling Florida’s effort to clean up its voting rolls 12 years after George W. Bush won the state’s electoral votes by a razor-thin margin. (more)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has turned down Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s request to ban the carrying of guns in downtown Tampa during this summer’s Republican National Convention, the Tampa Bay Times reported. (more)

The Washington Post has made clear its opposition to — and persistent misunderstanding of — the set of self-defense laws known as Stand Your Ground. Its March 29 editorial was headlined “A rise in homicides after ‘Stand Your Ground,’” even though homicides per capita in Florida have dropped, not risen, since that state enacted its law. The editorial claimed that the law “immunizes an individual from criminal charges if he asserts he had a ‘reasonable’ fear of grave harm.” This grossly misstates the law: individuals may assert anything they please, but it is up to legal finders of fact, such as a judge or jury, to ascertain whether a claimed fear was in fact reasonable. (more)

As news develops about the investigation into the Feb. 26 Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Fla., nationwide support for the arrest of George Zimmerman, the shooter, is softening. That’s the message from a pair of polls — one conducted March 25-26 and the other March 27-28. (more)

SANFORD, Fla. — Monday’s march for slain teen Trayvon Martin was delayed 25 minutes as organizers struggled to keep ralliers in line. (more)

With a single punch, Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who eventually shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old, then Trayvon climbed on top of George Zimmerman and slammed his head into the sidewalk several times, leaving him bloody and battered, authorities have revealed to the Orlando Sentinel. (more)

SANFORD, Fla. — The Rev. Al Sharpton, an MSNBC host and liberal political figure, riled up a mostly-black Sanford, Fla., crowd on Thursday night in the wake of the killing of 17-year-old student Trayvon Martin. (more)

All around the country, people are being exposed to a culinary revolution: food trucks. Movable gourmet kitchens are bringing all sorts of new and tasty options to satisfied customers. And yet, as Matt Yglesias recently explained at Slate.com, “City governments across the country are threatening to kill the food truck revolution with dumb regulations.” (more)

An American flag depicting a picture of President Obama where the stars belong was taken down Tuesday afternoon after Florida veterans gathered in protest at the Democratic Party headquarters in Lake County, Fla. (more)

On Saturday in Orlando, Fla., former Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson ran a red light in his Mercedes-Benz and slammed into a public transit bus. Two Floridians were injured, according to WESH-TV2. (more)

Coming off weeks of alternately attacking Newt Gingrich and President Barack Obama, the Romney campaign switched gears on Monday and came out swinging against former Sen. Rick Santorum, who looks to be Romney’s toughest competition in the three primary contests on Tuesday. (more)

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was not the only famous face traipsing around Florida crashing parties. Early on Saturday morning, a gunman wearing a mask police say resembled “a likeness” to President Barack Obama, robbed a McDonalds in Riviera Beach, the Sun-Sentinel reports. (more)

1.) When is someone going to take Chris Matthews off the air for his own good? – During a radio interview Tuesday promoting his book on JFK, Matthews spouted lunacy. TheDC’s Jeff Poor reports: (more)

In the wake of an immigration snafu at The University of Georgia, football commit Chester Brown has signed on to play football for the The University of Central Florida. (more)

In a dizzying display of campaign hubris with a pinch of denial, Newt Gingrich took what would ordinarily be a concession speech Tuesday night and turned it into a blueprint for his first day in the White House. (more)

Florida’s Space Coast has gone for Mitt Romney. (more)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s lady luck has run out in Florida, according to exit polls. (more)