Some school districts are facing penalties for having schools that don't meet class size requirements after State Board of Education rulings Monday. Money will be transferred out of each school district's operational budget and into capital outlay for such things as building more classrooms. County school districts with at least one noncomplying school and the amounts they face losing from their operating budgets include:
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In a 911 call released Monday a 25-year-old man calmly tells a dispatcher that he shot and killed his parents and is waiting for deputies to arrest him.
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Less than one percent of traditional Florida public schools are in line for financial penalties for failing to meet Florida's class size reduction requirements after State Board of Education rulings Monday.
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A Florida Panhandle lawmaker urged the State Board of Education on Monday to call evolution a "theory" in revised science standards the panel will consider later this month.
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Karen Azari wasted no time after Florida voters overwhelmingly approved the property-tax amendment last week. Azari, who owns a Miami granite countertop business, promptly put her longtime home in Bay Harbor Islands up for sale with Coldwell Banker.
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As John McCain heads into Super Tuesday with polls showing him edging ahead of Mitt Romney, he carries from his victory in Florida not just momentum as the front-runner, but a strategy born and honed in the last days of the primary in the Sunshine State.
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(AP) -- The voting district boundaries for Osceola County's School Board are illegal and new ones must be created to avoid a federal lawsuit, the Department of Justice said.
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For a suspenseful half-hour before game time Sunday, football fans across Boca Raton and Delray Beach were looking at trays of chicken wings and cold-cuts -- and snow on their television screens.
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Authorities rescued 46 dogs and three cats on Sunday from an abandoned duplex covered in animal excrement.
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Even before Sunday's Super Bowl game began, football fans in Palm Beach County were sweating and shouting at their televisions. An electrical problem knocked out cable service for 180,000 customers in the area around Delray Beach and Boca Raton for half an hour before the big game.
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A former juvenile boot camp guard who was exonerated by a jury in the death of a teenager was offered a new position with the Bay County Sheriff's Office but turned it down, the sheriff said.
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The voting district boundaries for Osceola County's school board are illegal and new ones must be created to avoid a federal lawsuit, the Department of Justice said.
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Brian Renton, a 46-year-old carpenter from Tampa, slung his canoe atop his weathered pickup, waved goodbye to his parents and left -- headed, he said, back home to Connecticut.
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Florida's Republican Party chairman took a swipe at Democrats on Saturday during his party's annual meeting, saying they should apologize for disenfranchising voters during the state's primary election.
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A Department of Children & Families press secretary who was arrested on suspicion of enlisting children to make pornography could face more charges, police said Saturday.
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Former Miami Herald editorial page editor John Lewis "Jim" Hampton Jr., who shared a 1982 Pulitzer Prize with the editorial board, has died. He was 73.
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Fire-rescue officials say one person died and seven others were injured in a fire at a Coral Springs retirement home.
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Restrictions on the amount of red snapper that can be caught in coastal Florida waters could soon be approved over the objections of charter fishermen who insist the new rules will severely hurt their business.
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In 1,816 days, Kyle Stansell has grown 14 inches and put on 95 pounds. He has learned to play basketball and adopted a dog, a snake and a cat. He got his learner's permit and started dating.
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On Tuesday, Florida voters passed a property-tax cut with Gov. Charlie Crist as chief cheerleader. On Thursday, the governor proposed a $70 billion budget that calls for additional property-tax money for schools.
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