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• Anti-muslim preacher captures attention again after Libyan attack

  GAINESVILLE _ The retired Florida pastor who attracted international attention two years ago for threatening to burn the Quran was again in the media spotlight on Wednesday for purportedly promoting a video that may have incited the violent attacks in Egypt and Libya.

  But Terry Jones, 60, told reporters from [...]

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• Bad economic deal could leave the state on the hook for $20 million

  Promised their investment would help lure 500 high-paying jobs to Florida, lawmakers in 2009 sidestepped existing procedures to funnel $20 million to a well known movie production company that animated the scenes in Titanic and the Transformers movies.

  But this story's ending isn't one for the movies.
  
  The company, Digital [...]

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• Rick Scott's elections office: We've "confirmed" 207 noncitizens on the rolls, removing them.

  Gov. Rick Scott and the Advancement Project have agreed to settle part of a suit over his noncitizen voter purge, but that doesn't mean noncitizens won't be purged.

  Scott's elections division reported today that it has "confirmed" 207 noncitizens on the voter rolls out of a pool of about 1,700 [...]

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• Rick Scott stops noncitizen voter purge, restores some voters to rolls

  From a press release:

  Breaking news… the State of Florida has agreed to several key concessions in the Advancement Project lawsuit over its voter purge (Arcia v. Detzner). They include: 

  Restore to the voter rolls any individual from the list of potential non-citizens (the 2600 person list) who was removed from the [...]
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• Rick Scott restores some voters to rolls, but might continue noncitizen voter purge after agreement

  Update: The headline was changed. The Department of State's Division of Elections says there was no settlement in this case. Instead, the two sides came to an agreement. And anyone found to be a noncitizen will be removed from the rolls. To date, the state says, there are 207 [...]

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• Workers union poised to sue after state clears way for prison health privatization

  A union for state workers is racing to sue Florida after lawmakers cleared the way Wednesday to privatize health care in prisons.

  A legislative panel voted 6-4 to allow the state's Department of Corrections to try and plug its $60 million deficit by turning inmate care over to private for-profit companies.

  The [...]

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• Romney criticizes Obama administration for "sympathizing" with attackers. Did it?

  The deadly U.S. embassy attacks gripped the presidential campaign Wednesday when Republican Mitt Romney claimed the president’s administration had been “sympathizing” with the attackers and apologizing “for American values.”
  
  President Obama’s supporters were quick to point out that Obama and the administration made no apologies or expressions of sympathy, [...]

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• New report undermines Gov. Scott's rosy jobs message

  The Florida’s Legislature’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research came out with another report Wednesday that refutes Gov. Rick Scott’s claims that Florida’s unemployment rate is dropping rapidly because the state is creating jobs.

  According to the report, titled “Florida: Long-Range Financial Outlook,” the drop in Florida’s unemployment since December can overwhelmingly be attributed to a [...]

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• Preliminary data on Stand Your Ground law remains murky

  Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll has repeatedly said that the task force commissioned to look into Florida's controversial stand your ground law will make its decision based on facts, not emotions.

  Carroll and 18 other task force members learned Wednesday that those facts—like many Stand Your Ground cases—are incredibly difficult to pin down.

  A University of Florida [...]

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• Marco Rubio "deeply saddened" by the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, staffers in Libya

  From a press release:

  U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement regarding riots in Libya and Egypt that resulted in the murder of America’s ambassador to Libya and three members of his staff:

  “I am deeply saddened [...]

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