When the Davie Town Council voted last year to commission a 90-foot span across the N-23 Canal on the west side of town, it envisioned a charming bridge that would be praised by the horseback riders and hikers who would use it.

Students this year were given a third more time to write their essays (60 minutes instead of last year’s 45), so some of Florida’s improvement could stem from children having more time to organize their thoughts.

Former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina pleaded not guilty Friday in Miami federal court to charges that he defrauded the U.S. government by failing to report potentially millions of dollars in income on tax returns, including receiving cash payments on high-interest loans he made to a convicted Ponzi schemer.

Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in his modest gated community in Kissimmee.