Fla. — Gov. Charlie Crist wants to give each of Florida’s 11 state universities the power to raise tuition by up to 15 percent every year. An increase would have to be approved by a university’s board of trustees and...
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Last year, the board agreed to limit freshmen enrollment at the state-funded levels through 2010 to maintain quality at Florida's 11 state universities. Outgoing State University System Chancellor Mark Rosenberg has urged the board to keep that policy in place,...
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The winning tickets were sold at the following locations: Kangaroo Express Quick Pick 14870 S...Highway 441 Summerfield (Marion County) Publix Quick Pick 134 S.W. Street Miami (Miami-Dade County) These retailers will each receive a bonus incentive of $500...
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Jim Russell said Wednesday that he expects charges will be forthcoming and arrest reports would be forwarded to the state attorney's office for possible prosecution. The football players and some members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity were involved in...
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State legislators officially opened the 2008-10 Florida Legislature on Tuesday, a normally jovial occasion weighed down this year by a multibillion-dollar budget deficit and a worsening recession. The 35 new House members and seven rookie senators who were sworn in...
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Florida State likely will be without both starting safeties when it takes the field Saturday night at Maryland. Senior free safety Darius McClure will miss the game after going down with torn cartilage in his left knee last Saturday. And...
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Acknowledging the state's challenging fiscal crisis, Florida legislators voted in two new Republican leaders for the next two-year term on Tuesday. Florida's first Cuban American House Speaker, Marco Rubio of Miami, handed over the reins of the Florida House to...
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Barring an unlikely reversal after 4,000 untallied absentee ballots are counted, Republican Larry Eger will be the next public defender for Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties. Manatee County election officials said they expect to have totals from those absentee ballots...
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Responding to an unprecedented crush of early voters, Gov. Charlie Crist on Tuesday extended early voting poll hours for the rest of the week. Instead of eight hours a day, and eight hours total on the weekend, Crist authorized early...
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Arizona voters have approved a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The amendment approved Tuesday was a stripped-down version of a proposal narrowly rejected by state voters two years ago. State law already bans gay marriage, but the measure's...
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