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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida officials responsible for providing services to people with lifelong disabilities have allowed nearly $800 million in state and federal matching funds to fall through the cracks in the past two years, according to a budget analysis by a statewide advocacy group. That’s enough to give the 23,000 people on a waiting list maintained by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities the critical services they need to live with their disorders, which include autism and cerebral palsy, the advocates say. The money could be used for medical treatment, therapy, housing and help p......

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County’s transit system struggled to have a normal morning on Thursday as the overnight deluge in South Florida left the Metromover system disabled, Metrorail trains slowed by debris and buses dodging flooded streets. “Due to historic rain fall in Miami-Dade County, all modes of transportation including Metrobus, Metromover, Metrorail and STS are experiencing delays,” the transit system said in an 8:17 a.m. social media post. STS is the name for automobiles used to pick up people with disabilities that prevent them from using county transit. “Please allow for extra travel ti......

Fox News castaway Tucker Carlson plans to make his first public appearance Thursday since abruptly parting ways with the right-wing cable channel last week. The Daily Caller — a site co-founded by Carlson — reported Wednesday the disgraced pundit will speak at an Alabama fundraiser for the Christian-centric organization Rainbow Omega, benefiting “adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.” Carlson and Fox News “mutually agreed” it was time for him to leave the network after a motherlode of sexist and racist exchanges between the 53-year-old prime-time host and his associates were......

The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that Chicago has violated the Americans With Disabilities Act for its lack of special crossing signals for blind and sight-compromised pedestrians. Accessible pedestrian signals provide pedestrians with safe-crossing information in a non-visual format, such as audible tones, speech messages and vibrating surfaces. The ruling stems from a disability discrimination lawsuit filed in late 2019 by the American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago and three visually disabled individuals. The suit alleged that the city violated disabled pedestrian......

As voters went to the polls last month in the Texas primary, the voting rights hotline lit up at the nonprofit advocacy agency Disability Rights Texas. Molly Broadway, the group’s training and technical support specialist, heard from some frustrated voters with disabilities who had not received their mail-in ballots on time. Others had their ballots rejected several times because of signature and personal identification requirements or fretted that new rules banning ballot assistance could make criminals out of their friends and loved ones. Broadway and other disability rights activists have s......

One Tennessee school district is standing resolute against the governor’s efforts to let parents opt their kids out of school mask mandates. Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order, which was extended through Nov. 5, will continue to be blocked in Williamson County’s two public school systems, thanks to a ruling from U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, The Tennessean reported. “The record before the Court establishes that temporary universal mask mandates adopted by the Williamson County and Franklin school systems have been, and likely would continue to be, effective in curbing the spread of COV......