Deportation flights have started at the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades more than three weeks after the first detainees arrived, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday. The federal government has deported 100 people held at the notorious site in an old airstrip and flown out hundreds more to other hubs,

Gov. Ron DeSantis stopped in Bay County on July 28 to celebrate that the monthlong back-to-school sales tax break is now permanent.