{"id":5288,"date":"2025-10-15T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5288\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:22:07","slug":"wednesday-october-15-2025-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5288\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, October 15, 2025 \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n

Following an opinion article by Leon County School Board Alva Smith, addressing operational efficiencies, Superintendent Rocky Hanna, during Tuesday\u2019s school board meeting, pledged to conduct an operational review of school finances before the end of the year.<\/a><\/p>\n

An estimated 1,000 attendees showed up for Tallahassee\u2019s Longest Table event the evening of Sunday, Oct. 12.<\/a> The table extended along Duval Street between West Jefferson and West St. Augustine.<\/p>\n

Hugh Max Jordan died peacefully October 11th, 2025, surrounded by his family in Tallahassee, Florida. <\/a>He was born November 29, 1940, in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the third eldest of twelve children born to the late Ross Allen Jordan and Vivian Dyal Jordan.<\/p>\n

LOCAL SPORTS<\/p>\n

The Community Christian (CCS) volleyball team just finished the 2025-2026 regular season with a record of 21-6, winning the most games during one season in school history.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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FLORIDA NEWS<\/p>\n

Jim Boyd, a veteran lawmaker who heads an insurance and investment firm in Bradenton, was formally selected Tuesday by Senate Republicans to become the next Senate president.<\/a><\/p>\n

With Citizens Property Insurance Corp. leaders expecting tens of thousands of policies to move to the private market later this year,<\/a> the state insurer\u2019s policy count remained almost unchanged last week.<\/p>\n

NATIONAL NEWS<\/p>\n

The US military\u00a0struck a small vessel<\/a>\u00a0accused of smuggling illegal drugs off the Venezuelan coast yesterday, killing at least six people. The incident marks the fifth such operation in the Caribbean Sea amid the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on alleged drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u00a0posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (More<\/a>).<\/p>\n

US stock markets\u00a0close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq -0.8%) as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hints at interest rate cuts and US-China trade tensions escalate (More<\/a>).<\/p>\n

TALLAHASSEE WEATHER<\/p>\n

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