Nick Papantonis WPXI

Reporting for @WPXI in Pittsburgh. @SyracuseU 🍊 alum. Encrypted messages via Signal app: 405-970-0090. Email TBA.

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After five wonderful years in Orlando, Friday was my last day with WFTV. Looking forward to joining the fantastic team at WPXI in Pittsburgh later this month!

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@79_aero See it! I’m sorry. 😢 But I have a lot of confidence in WFTV’s team. Last week’s rocket launch coverage and how it was handled behind the scenes was unlike anything I have seen since I joined this station. In a good way!

[Jason Garcia @Jason_Garcia]

One year ago, Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature used a last-minute budget maneuver to spend $80 million of taxpayer money buying 4 acres of land from a Panhandle developer and big GOP donor.

Could they be about to do it again?

Quick 🧵...

[Jake Stofan @JakeStofan]

Special Session Shakeup: FL House Speaker @Daniel_PerezFL says @myflhouse will vote on @GovRonDeSantis' proposed maps tomorrow and will then be free to go home. Says no bills on AI and vaccines were filed, so House will not take up the issues. @ActionNewsJax

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Special treatment, or officer discretion? Troopers say they clocked a Mt. Dora officer going 122 in a 60 -- and didn't put him in handcuffs. https://t.co/PBQ213twlA

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The mother of the boy who was the target of a high school murder plot says he didn't know his would-be attackers, and is thanking the person who tipped police off for saving his life. https://t.co/TKXsXCrlJo

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@NotOnStolenLand @WFTV PCFR crews battled a two-alarm brush fire off the Osceola Polk Line Road in the Davenport area Sunday afternoon. Roughly 68 acres were burned in that fire as well as four non-dwelling structures.

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I was wondering. That's cool.

[Rohan Nadkarni @RohanNadkarni]

This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real.

They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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@jmaxmann @WFTV @NewhouseSU Hard to beat 25+ years experience but we will get there one day! 🙂

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Two reporters, two producers with Syracuse on their resumes at @WFTV. We now make up enough of our newsroom to hang a flag from the rafters (management approval still pending). 😁🍊

@NewhouseSU

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The number of people being booked into the Orange County jail on gun-related charges fell to their lowest level since the pandemic began, and comes amid a historic low in the national homicide rate. https://t.co/JjBJaxtgQU

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The immigration system is so backed up in Florida, half of non-criminal immigrants booked in the Orange County jail had been handed over to ICE -- and then sent straight back to the jail. https://t.co/lTnOt5KZaI

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Florida has launched its animal abuser database to help adoption groups avoid placing dogs and cats with people who shouldn't own pets. But the database is just a list of names -- leaving every "John Smith" labeled an animal abuser.
https://t.co/lOrpFrG1Du

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We tracked #FloridaMan all year as he wrangled alligators, stole police cars and hosed down children. Here's the strangest -- and craziest -- stories we covered in Florida. https://t.co/QH6l2YCzbu

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Three big crashes in three different counties tonight just in the Orlando area. Please drive safe everyone, Christmas is best when we all make it home.

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No criminal charges will be brought in a man's death on an Epic Universe roller coaster, which has officially been ruled an accident. https://t.co/dKPDmqM9FN

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@Robert_P_Wulff @ParkSquareHomes Email me some details! [email protected]

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A nonprofit organization wants to take control of a public elementary school, in what would be a first for Central Florida.

Read: https://t.co/RfgrhIexJr

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@2021Captain Court of public opinion!

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In Ocala, Florida, school leaders are pushing the state to tighten rules on kindergarten attendance and age requirements after they noticed a rise in the number of 6-year-olds who don’t know their own name and aren’t potty trained. https://t.co/iJVTOxdyFd