Florida News That Impacts You – October 29th, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Florida's News that impacts You on The Brian
Mudd Show and Joe Malkin with You and news from
around the state.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
This happened our fifteenth execution, the record setting number in
a year in the state of Florida.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Last night.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Just prior to that execution, Fox's Ted Lender this report.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Sixty five year old Norman Grimm Junior is set to
die by lethal injection at six pm at Florida State Prison.
Grim was convicted of raping and murdering his next door neighbor,
Cynthia Campbell, back in nineteen ninety eight. Prosecutor said Campbell's
body was found under the Pensacola Bay Bridge and DNA
evidence link Grim to the killing. He was sentenced to
death in two thousand and recently waived his final appeals.

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Florida has already set execution dates for two more inmates
next month, continuing a record setting pace Under Governor Ron DeSantis.
Florida has executed more people than any other state this year,
followed by Texas and Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Meanwhile, numerous local nonprofits and agencies have established relief efforts
for victims of Hurricane Melissa. You do also have organizations
like the Red Cross through out there working on the
relief efforts. Additionally, the Jamaican government has established a portal
for direct support Support Jamaica, the Official Disaster Relief and
Recovery Portal. I'll have a direct link to that as

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part of the story on the Brand Mudshow blog. BID
Attorney General James Southmeyer has sued California and Washington over
their legal illegal issuance of a CDL to Hardredger Singh,
who is responsible for the death of three Floridians following
his legal u turn attempt at an eighteen wheeler on
the turnpike in Fort Piers. The implications could impact all

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fifty states. The Saint Lucy County Sheriff's office set to
receive nearly a million dollars from the state Board of
Immigration Enforcement for immigration enforcement measures. Approximately have the money
for enhanced technology to aid law enforcements efforts to combat
illegal immigration, which county recently received a similar payment from
the state. Additionally, the state is also offering law enforcement
professionals bonuses of up to one thousand dollars for their

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assistance and immigration enforcement as a designated Immigration officer.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
One hundred and forty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
The law enforcement professionals are currently in line to receive
that bonus. Harley Clydes Guy's much of the day chance
of showers. High's in the low eighties typical for the
state expected today, and then we get a cold front.
Legit cold front we'll move into our area tomorrow, delivering
the coolest weather of the season to date.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Tomorrow's high mid seventies.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Ben Plumoth Sharon dust is tracking over the Central Atlantic
that is acting as a headwind for tropical development related
Hurricane Center. The tracking the one thing that is out there,
which of course is still Hurricane Melissa remains a major
hurricane tom sustained wins all one point fifteen, most recently
as it is nearing the exit of eastern Cuba. The
hurricane will then cross through the southern Bahamas throughout the

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day to day before heading near Bermuda tomorrow on its
existing path. I mean, look, it's going to read some
haffock in the southern Bahamas. But actually if it if
it hugs the hurricanes, there's projections right now it would
not make another landfall. After Cuba, we'll see gas prices
fell two cents per gallon yesterday, reaching multi year lows
yet again. The average price four regularly unladed two eighty

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seven now in the Palm Beach is threeh six Martin
two ninety two. It is two eighty eight in Saint
Lucie and below the state average in the lowest in
years in the Indian River County this morning at two
point eighty four per gallon