EDUCATION
Florida high schools to be graded on more than just FCAT
High schools statewide are getting ready to be graded with a new formula -- after faring poorly on the old one.
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Two brothers, both experienced boaters, died in a nighttime collision about two miles south of Dinner Key.
High schools statewide are getting ready to be graded with a new formula -- after faring poorly on the old one.
W hat's not to love about Alonzo and Tracy Mourning? The former Miami Heat player and his wife have become Miami's philanthropic power couple du jour.
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Rack up three crash-related tickets in three years and you'll be back behind the wheel -- for a driving tes...
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The VA has promised free treatment to veterans infected by improperly cleaned equipment used in colonoscopies.
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Charlie Crist seated his fourth Supreme Court nominee, burnishing his reputation as a center-leaning governor
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A grand jury investigating Ray Sansom's ties to a Panhandle college issued a second round of indictments We...
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NASA has scrubbed space shuttle Endeavour's scheduled launch after nine lightning strikes were reported nea...
The operator of one of the trains involved in a fatal monorail collision at Walt Disney World has issued a ...
Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford is firing a police officer who shot an unarmed burglary suspect from b...
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