"My hope is that he becomes a little bit more like a team player; I hope he's more middle ground," Ashley Oliver ... That's a rosier assessment than he ever received in the USA TODAY/Suffolk ...

Florida has no sanctuary cities but has been an epicenter for illegal immigration due to its location on the Atlantic coast.

Ashley Moody was sworn in as a U.S. senator ... Moody, 49, becomes the second woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate, after Paula Hawkins, a Republican who served one term in the 1980s.