Florida News That Impacts You \u2013\u00a0January\u00a021st, 2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bottom Line:\u00a0Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that\u00a0impacts\u00a0you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Florida Attorney General James\u00a0Uthmeier\u00a0has announced<\/a>\u00a0that state laws\u00a0requiring\u00a0race-based state action are unconstitutional under the 14th\u00a0Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause and are also in violation of Florida\u2019s Constitution and will no longer be enforced. According to\u00a0Uthmeier\u00a0numerous\u00a0laws on Florida\u2019s books compel state entities and local governments to discriminate based on race \u2013 commonly\u00a0regarding\u00a0bids for government contracts.\u00a0
\nLion Country Safari\u2019s KOA campground\u00a0is set to close<\/a>\u00a0following the sale of the property to the family of Larry Ellison. The campground, which borders\u00a0the park, will cease operations on April 30th\u00a0with all reservations beyond that date that will be refunded.\u00a0
\nIndiana won its first college football National Championship with a\u00a027-21<\/a>\u00a0win over Miami at Hard Rock Stadium. President Trump attended the game.\u00a0
\nThe Miami Dolphins\u00a0have hired<\/a>\u00a0former Packers Defensive Coordinator Jeff Hafley to be the team\u2019s next coach following the\u00a0firing of Mike McDaniel.\u00a0\u00a0
\nAfter a cold and breezy start to the day with\u00a0temps\u00a0in the 40\u2019s,\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0have sunny skies with highs near 70 throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.\u00a0We\u2019ll\u00a0have slightly warmer\u00a0temps\u00a0for\u00a0the rest of the week.\u00a0Up to\u00a02 inches of snow<\/a>\u00a0fell in northern Florida over the weekend \u2013 marking the second consecutive year parts of the state have experienced snowfall.\u00a0\u00a0
\nGas prices\u00a0are two cents lower over the past day and three cents lower than a week ago. The average price for regular unleaded in Florida is currently\u00a0$2.75\u00a0per gallon<\/a>. In Palm Beach County the average price is $2.94\u00a0per gallon, in Martin the average is $2.83,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0$2.79\u00a0in St. Lucie, and in Indian River County the average is $2.79\u00a0per gallon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida News That Impacts You \u2013\u00a0January\u00a021st, 2026\u00a0\u00a0 Bottom Line:\u00a0Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61976,28,30,29,634,99,6142,13882,729,221,24845],"class_list":["post-124838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brian-mudd","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-local","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-talk","tag-traffic","tag-weather","tag-wjno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}