{"id":278195,"date":"2026-05-20T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:24:11","slug":"the-tr-daily-briefs-wednesday-may-20-2026-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278195\/","title":{"rendered":"The TR Daily Briefs: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WEDNESDAY1-2.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee Reports<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wednesday, May 20 2026<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-cf95c857-7ea9-41df-a963-6e080a90f52e\">Weather: Today, a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm with a high near 91. Tonight, partly cloudy, with a low around 71. Thursday, a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. with high near 92. Thursday night, mostly clear, with a low around 71. <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lat=30.4407&amp;lon=-84.2783\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-cddbf048-c6ef-45fb-9ee8-d99bbde682ce\">US stock markets close lower (S&amp;P 500 -0.7%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -0.8%) (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/45795576.1909609\/aHR0cHM6Ly9maW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9tYXJrZXRzL2xpdmUvc3RvY2stbWFya2V0LXRvZGF5LWRvdy1zcC01MDAtbmFzZGFxLWRyb3AtYW1pZC1yaXNpbmctYm9uZC15aWVsZHMtMjIyMzQzNzk4Lmh0bWw_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1qb2luMTQ0MCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9wbGFjZW1lbnQ9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1c2VyX2lkPTY2YzRjNzNhNWQ3ODY0NGIzYWJiYTk5Yw\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB3de95557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">More<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Local &amp; State News<\/p>\n<p>A large school safety company says Leon County\u2019s Godby High School is the first in the country to install an AI based system to instantly detect and report a gun on campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wfsu.org\/wfsu-local-news\/2026-05-17\/godby-high-school-pilots-a-state-of-the-art-gun-detection-and-alerting-system\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Bell, who last summer stepped down after a decade as president of the University of Alabama, was announced Monday as the lone finalist to be the University of Florida\u2019s next president.<a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/05\/19\/former-alabama-president-bell-named-lone-finalist-for-uf-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite gas prices being at a four-year high, the auto club AAA anticipates a record 2.7 million Floridians will take to the roads for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/05\/19\/aaa-expects-record-memorial-day-traffic-in-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National News<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R, KY-4)\u00a0loses primary race to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/45795576.1909609\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvbWFzc2llLWdhbGxyZWluLXRydW1wLWtlbnR1Y2t5LXJlcHVibGljYW4tcHJpbWFyeS0wM2E2NThiMWE0NTU5M2FkMDRlYmY2MjgzYTNmZGI0Nz91dG1fc291cmNlPWpvaW4xNDQwJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3BsYWNlbWVudD1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnVzZXJfaWQ9NjZjNGM3M2E1ZDc4NjQ0YjNhYmJhOTlj\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB89839cee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">More<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump backs\u00a0Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in Senate primary (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/45795576.1909609\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdHJ1bXAtdGV4YXMtc2VuYXRlLWVuZG9yc2VtZW50LXBheHRvbi1jb3JueW4tYWRiNGM3MjEzZmMyZDBkYjBiMjlkMGFiNjVkNDkzODQ_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1qb2luMTQ0MCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9wbGFjZW1lbnQ9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1c2VyX2lkPTY2YzRjNzNhNWQ3ODY0NGIzYWJiYTk5Yw\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cBb834db97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">More<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779290651_997_6d6a83762c62672642cf1fbc842a8c1afc1630aadc645705ee21fa300c8ea1c0.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee Reports Wednesday, May 20 2026 Weather: Today, a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-278195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278195","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=278195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}