A new poll shows the Florida gubernatorial race is down to the wire with three weeks to go. St. Pete Polls took a survey on behalf of SaintPetersBlog which shows Gov. Rick Scott with the narrowest of leads, holding off Democratic challenger former Gov. Charlie Crist 44 percent to 43 percent. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie takes 8 percent while 5 percent are still undecided.

Remember Yinka Adeshina, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who had a slew of ... interesting campaign donations? Well, as it turns out, the Tallahassee Police Department arrested Adeshina Monday on two counts of fraud for submitting false reports to the Department of State. Adeshina had been on a three-week-long vacation in Nigeria.

The University of Florida announced the top three candidates for its 12th president on Monday, inching the Gators one step closer to selecting a new president for the university. The UF Presidential Search Committee selected Dr. W. Kent Fuchs (provost, Cornell University), Dr. David W. McLaughlin (provost, New York University) and Dr. Sibrandes Poppema (president, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) as the final three candidates out of a pool of 15. They will each be interviewed on Tuesday.

Monday might be Columbus Day but most Americans dont consider it that important according to a new poll. Rasmussen Reports released a poll which shows only 8 percent of adults think Columbus Day is one of the most important holidays while 45 percent say it is one of the least important and 43 percent of those surveyed think it ranks between the two extremes. The poll of 1,000 American adults was taken from Oct. 10-11 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.

Appearing on Americas Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum on Fox News on Monday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., criticized the Obama administrations handling of Middle Eastern affairs as Islamic State (IS) forces threaten to take Kobani in Syria. Weve been talking to Turkey, MacCallum said. Turkey now says that they will allow us to begin missions from Turkey. Do you think we should be pressuring them as well to put ground troops on the line in this fight?

With three weeks to go in a contentious election against Democrat Gwen Graham, U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., released a TV ad on Monday playing up his national security credentials and tying his opponent to President Barack Obama and U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Former state Rep. Carl Domino, the Republican candidate running against U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., took to the national airwaves on Monday, appearing on MidPoint with Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV. Domino said he wanted to push solutions in Congress and pointed to his record in Tallahassee. In my eight years in the state Legislature, I produced solutions to problems, Domino said. Theres a lot of solutions to problems out there.

The Associated Industries of Florida (AIF) announced on Monday it opposed Amendment 2, a proposal to expand medical marijuana in the Sunshine State. If Amendment 2 gets 60 percent on the November ballot, it will be added to the Florida Constitution.

With a third presidential bid a real possibility, Vice President Joe Biden turned his attention to the Sunshine State and went to bat for former Gov. Charlie Crist, the Democratic candidate challenging Gov. Rick Scott in Florida. Biden is hitting the campaign trail for Crist on Monday. In a fundraising email sent out on Monday morning, the notoriously gaffe-proned Biden even insisted Crist was reminiscent of himself since the former governor "speaks from the heart."

Republican congressional candidate Carol Platts team came out swinging at U.S. Rep. Alan Graysons, D-Fla., campaign on Monday, accusing it of placing signs on private property without the owners permission.

With a report out from the Wall Street Journal that Democratic gubernatorial candidate former Gov. Charlie Crist is hesitant to have President Barack Obama stump for him in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott looked to link the two on economic issues.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., penned an op-ed at Fox News website on Friday, making the case for school choice, insisted it helps children from lower income families do better. Praising Florida's school choice options, Rubio maintained changes in education and technology made school choice options more necessary and argued teacher unions often block the path to real reform. The essay can be read here. Rubio wrote:

The team behind Miami-Dade School Board member Carlos Curbelo, the Republican candidate running in CD 26 in South Florida, released a Web video on Friday taking aim at U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, D-Fla. The new ad uses Garcias words against him, looking to undermine the Democrats arguments on why he deserves a second term in Congress.

After reports emerged that a health-care worker was infected with the Ebola virus in Dallas Sunday afternoon, Gov. Rick Scott asked Florida hospitals to launch mandatory training for health-care workers on the disease.

A new poll finds most Americans want an end to the era of big government, with more than half of them saying they view the federal government unfavorably. The Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters found 64 percent of respondents viewed the federal government as "somewhat unfavorable" or "very unfavorable," while only 28 percent said they viewed the federal government as "somewhat favorable." A minuscule number -- 4 percent -- of voters said they view the government as "very favorable."