Election Night results will be available at http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/. All results will be preliminary until Saturday, when the unofficial results are reported. A recount cannot be ordered until the unofficial results are reported. A machine recount is ordered when the statewide results are within half a percent, and if the results after the machine recount are within a quarter, a hand recount will take place, but only to review the over and under votes.

Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Joseph L. Caruncho and Robert W. Stork to the Florida Polytechnic University board of trustees. Caruncho, 54, of Miami, is CEO of Preferred Care Partners. Hes served on the Florida International Universitys board of trustees, Foundation board, College of Business Deans Council, and Center for Leadership Advisory Council. Stork, 60, of Vero Beach, is the CEO of Communications International Inc. He serves on the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council and the Florida Technology, Research, and Scholarship board.

On Sunday, when the Tampa Bay Times staff named the Democratic legislative candidates their "Loser of the Week," they so nailed it. Wrote the Times, "We can't help suspect that the GOP plan to oust three Florida Supreme Court justices was actually a head fake to ensure trial lawyers spend millions defending the justices instead of helping elect Democratic legislators."

Gov. Rick Scott and first lady Ann Scott will cast their ballots Tuesday morning in Naples. Hopefully, the governor is listed as being among the active voters when he arrives at the St. Ann Jubilee Center.

While gas is rationed in New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy, the devastation left across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast isnt pushing up gas prices across Florida and the Southeast. The big reasons being that the area impacted isnt a major oil production hub, while Europe continues to struggle with its debt crisis which has decreased global demand, according to AAA.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that Judge Leandra G. Johnson of the 3rdJudicial Circuit Court of Floridahas sentenced Dr. Yong Am Park, 68, to two years inprison for Medicaid fraud and prescription drug-related charges. Park was convicted of three counts of Medicaid fraud, five counts ofprescription fraud, two counts of unauthorized possession of a prescriptionform, one count of scheme to defraud, and one count of selling a controlledsubstance.

He said he was going to stay completely out of the presidential race, but New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg -- his city still partially submerged, without power and facing a rising death toll from Hurricane Sandy -- has endorsed President Obama. According to Politico, he did it "via the Twitters": @BloombergTV: BREAKING: Mayor @MikeBloomberg endorses @BarackObama for re-election

During the 112th Congress, Florida District 20 Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz sponsored six bills. With a Congress member's average number of bills standing at 14, that ranks her at No. 371 of 442 members. These are her bills: H.RES. 647: Recognizing the 100th Anniversary of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America in 2012 (5/9/12). HR 4362: Stop Identity Theft Act of 2012 (4/16/12).

Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Keith Goodman, the retired senior manager for Siemens Global, an electronics and electrical engineering powerhouse, to the Study Committee on Investor-Owned Water and Wastewater Utility Systems. Goodman, 71 of Mount Plymouth, succeeds Gus Alexakos on the committee.

Lars Houmann, president and CEO of Florida Hospital and the Florida Division of Adventist Health System, has been elected chair of the Florida Chamber board of directors for 2012-2013. Houmann, whose term begins Nov. 1, replaces Chairman Anthony Connelly, senior vice president and CFO of Walt Disney Parks & Resort, U.S.

The next meeting of the Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection, formed in the wake of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman shooting in Sanford and to review the state's 'Stand Your Ground' law, is set for Nov. 13 in Pensacola. The meeting, to begin at 9 a.m. and have public comment starting at 1 p.m., will be held at the WSRE Jean and Paul Amos Performing Studio at Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed the death warrant for former South Florida police officer Manuel Pardo, who was convicted of killed nine drug dealers and informers in 1986 whom Pardo claimed have no right to live. The state argued that Pardo, an officer with Sweetwater, and a co-defendant were also dealing drugs and the execution-style murders were simply a means to eliminate the competition.

In an exclusive interview with Sunshine State News, ProfessorElizabeth Price Foley of FloridaInternationalUniversity College of Law lambasts what she insists were "misleading" early media stories on a report she published on three Florida Supreme Court justices up for m

Attorney General Pam Bondi advised parents to visit the Florida Department of Law Enforcements Sexual Offenders and Predators Website before sending the kids out to trick-or-treat for Halloween. I encourage parents to use the Florida Sexual Offenders and Predators website to plan a safe route for trick-or-treating and to alert authorities of any known sex offenders or predators who distribute candy to children this Halloween, Bondi stated in a release.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty released the following statement regarding Hurricane Sandy: I would like to offer my thoughts and prayers to those impacted by Hurricane Sandy. I have been in contact with several of the insurance commissioners in the affected states, and have offered any assistance that we can provide based on our states expertise in handling catastrophic events.