{"id":383601,"date":"2026-08-28T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:36:08","slug":"the-tr-daily-briefs-friday-august-28-2026-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383601\/","title":{"rendered":"The TR Daily Briefs: Friday, August 28, 2026 \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee Reports<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Friday, August 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-cf95c857-7ea9-41df-a963-6e080a90f52e\">Weather: Today, showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm, with a high near 87. Tonight, a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, with a low around 72. Saturday, showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 11am, high near 86. Saturday night, showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers between 11pm and 2am, with a low around 72.  <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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-cddbf048-c6ef-45fb-9ee8-d99bbde682ce\">US stock markets close higher (S&amp;P 500 +0.7%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +1.6%) as tech stocks rally (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/47243352.1772916\/aHR0cHM6Ly9maW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9tYXJrZXRzL2xpdmUvc3RvY2stbWFya2V0LXRvZGF5LXRodXJzZGF5LWF1Z3VzdC0yNy1kb3ctc3AtNTAwLW5hc2RhcS0wODIxNDQ1MjAuaHRtbD91dG1fc291cmNlPWpvaW4xNDQwJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3BsYWNlbWVudD1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnVzZXJfaWQ9NjZjNGM3M2E1ZDc4NjQ0YjNhYmJhOTlj\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB2a951130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">More<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local Sports: On Aug. 26, the Maclay Marauders hosted the Leon Lions in a non-conference matchup, marking the teams\u2019 first meeting of the regular season. <a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/08\/28\/leon-volleyball-wins-a-four-set-thriller-at-maclay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local &amp; State News<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A troubled Leon County technology upgrade has disrupted the local criminal justice system. <a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/08\/28\/leon-county-it-upgrade-causes-catastrophic-problems-for-criminal-justice-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Saturday at 7 on CW the Seminoles will host the New Mexico State Aggies.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/08\/28\/fsu-preview-florida-state-vs-new-mexico-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get a preview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats on Thursday called for more investigations and resignations of top state officials after a leaked state grand jury report found Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 administration \u201cmisappropriated\u201d Medicaid money in 2024 that ended up in political committees. <a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/08\/28\/grand-jury-findings-called-politically-motivated-spurs-call-for-resignations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National News<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal aviation officials\u00a0are reportedly working to fire two air traffic controllers who left work an hour early on the day a jet crashed into a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport; the March 22 collision killed two pilots and injured six other people (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/47243352.1772916\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud3NqLmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy9haXJsaW5lcy9mYWEtZm91bmQtbGFndWFyZGlhLWFpci10cmFmZmljLWNvbnRyb2xsZXJzLWxlZnQtd29yay1lYXJseS1iZWZvcmUtZGVhZGx5LWNvbGxpc2lvbi04NDY2OGZhND9zdD1FcnFVWlEmbW9kPTE0NDAmdXNlcl9pZD02NmM0YzczYTVkNzg2NDRiM2FiYmE5OWM\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cBb56c742d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">More<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee Reports Friday, August 28, 2026 Weather: Today, showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm, with a high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-383601","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\/383601","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=383601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}