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Ravens Stars Share Florida Connection
As the Baltimore Ravens prepare to travel down south and face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football, several of their top players can’t help but feel giddy about returning to their home state.
A surprising amount of Ravens stars hail from the sunshine state, including quarterback Lamar Jackson, running back Derrick Henry, wide receivers Zay Flowers and safety Eddie Jackson, among others. Ahead of their trip down to Tampa Monday, the Florida natives couldn’t help but share the bond that comes from growing up in the state.
“That’s what we breed down there, just football. There’s a lot of football players [in Florida],” Lamar Jackson told reporters Thursday. “Don’t get me wrong, we have some basketball players here and there [and] probably some doctors and lawyers.
“We breed football players. It’s something we do down there. It’s like a big family gathering on Saturdays – youth football. It’s always been that way from what I’ve known. There’s just something about us loving football down there.”
It’s not just the fact that they all come fromt the same state that bonds them, but also the fact that they’ve known each other for so long.
For instance, Flowers knew Eddie Jackson as a football star in the South Florida area, despite being six years younger. In fact, seeing the safety star at Alabama and later in the NFL helped Flowers believe he can also make it to the professional level.
“It’s how we’re raised, it’s football from the time we were born,” Flowers said, per the Ravens’ website. “You’re going to meet everybody from down there before you even get out of South Florida. By the time you get to the league, you probably already knew the guy, or know somebody who knows the guy, or you’ve seen them before.
“We all know how hard it is to get here. It’s motivation to the younger kids who are still down there. It’s a rotation that never stops.”
The last time the Ravens went down to Florida came in 2022, when they faced the Bucs and the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road just a month apart. At that time, the only one of the aforementioned players on the team was Lamar Jackson. Now, they have several more Floridians on the roster, and best believe they want to put on a show in their home state.
“[As] Florida boys, I think we just all mesh together well,” Henry told reporters. “I don’t know. It’s just … You can’t really explain it. But I feel like, the Ravens – they like Florida boys, so it’s been a thing around here. But yes, I think it just comes [naturally] – that we’re all from Florida [and] that we’ve been around the same things. I’m [from] up north, [and] they’re [from] down south, so it’s a little different. But I think it’s just natural to … We’re just Florida boys; it comes [naturally].”
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Florida couple in alleged embryo mix-up have identified biological parents of ‘non-caucasian’ baby
A Florida couple who claimed a fertility clinic error led the woman giving birth to a “non-Caucasian child” who was not related to them said they have identified their child’s biological parents, according to reports.
“The results of testing delivered to us today confirm that our baby’s genetic parents have been identified,” Tiffany Score and Steven Mills said in a statement obtained by People on Wednesday.
Score and Mills filed a lawsuit in January against Fertility Center of Orlando and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, alleging that another patient’s embryo was implanted in Score’s uterus in April 2025.
The mix-up led to the birth of their now 4-month-old daughter, Shea, who is not biologically related to them, the filing alleged.
“This ends one chapter in our heartbreaking journey, but it raises new issues that will have to be resolved,” the statement continued. “In addition, questions about the disposition of our own embryos are still unanswered and are even more unlikely to ever be answered.”
“Only one thing is as absolutely certain today as it was on the day our daughter was born —we will love and will be this child’s parents forever.”
The couple added that they will respect the privacy of Shea’s biological parents and will keep their identities “confidential.”
Score and Mills, who are both white, stored three viable embryos at the Longwood clinic in 2020 for in vitro fertilization, a process that creates embryos and stores them until pregnancy.
Five years later, after an embryo was implanted, the couple gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” on Dec. 11, 2025, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in Orange County Circuit Court and obtained by Law & Crime.
“Tragically, while both Jane Doe and John Doe are racially Caucasian, Baby Doe displayed the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child,” the lawsuit said.
Further genetic testing confirmed that baby Shea had no biological relationship to either parent — raising questions about where their embryos had gone or whether another woman was impregnated with their biological child.
The new parents had an “intensely strong emotional bond” with their child during pregnancy and wished to keep the girl, but recognized she “should legally and morally be united with her genetic parents so long as they are fit, able and willing to take her,” the lawsuit stated.
Scarola told People, following Wednesday’s development, that Shea’s biological parents have not made any requests to take her into custody.
“Remaining questions about the fate of Tiffany and Steven’s unaccounted for embryos…are still pending,” Scarola said.
“The current legal proceeding will remain open to address those matters,” the attorney added. “However, we expect that we will now also begin to focus on the need for our clients to be compensated for the expenses they have incurred and the severe emotional trauma that they endured and will continue to experience.”
The Fertility Clinic of Orlando announced earlier this month that it would close by May 20 — a decision leadership said was made after “thoughtful consideration.”
Neither Scarola nor the clinic immediately responded to The Post’s request for comment.
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Florida investigating AI role in mass shooting at university
Florida on Tuesday announced a criminal probe into whether artificial intelligence played a role in a deadly mass shooting at a university in the US state.
“If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,” Uthmeier said.
Florida law allows anyone who assists or counsels someone in the commission of a crime to be treated as an “aider and abettor” bearing the same responsibility as the perpetrator, according to Uthmeier.
In exchanges with ChatGPT, the accused shooter sought advice on what type of gun and ammunition to use, as well as where and when on campus a lot of people would likely be found, the state attorney general said during a press briefing.
“Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime,” an OpenAI spokesperson said.
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