If ever there was a drowned rat of an event, it's Occupy West Palm Beach.

Herman Cain's memory appears to be getting clearer. Hours after saying he had no knowledge of any settlement of sexual harassment allegations at the National Restaurant Association he headed in the 1990s, the GOP presidential candidate provided details of one case to Fox News' Greta Van Sustern. "My general counsel [at the NRA] said this started out where [the complainant] and her lawyer were demanding a huge financial settlement I don't remember a number," Cain said on Monday's program.

The ballot for the Republican Presidential Preference Primary, Jan. 31, has been set. With names submitted by the Republican Party of Florida, Secretary of State Kurt Browning verified the lineup on Monday: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. With Florida requiring ballots for military and overseas voters in the mail no later than 45 days before the election, the first ballots could be sent out Dec. 17.

State Attorney Pam Bondi has filed an appeal to the 1st District Court of Appeal, late Monday afternoon, seeking to reverse a lower court ruling that halted plans to privatize 29 correctional facilities across South Florida. Her office said the appeal was on behalf of the legislators. Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford sided with Florida Police Benevolent Association attorneys who argued that lawmakers should have put the potential privatization of 29 prisons in South Florida into a separate bill, rather than as a proviso to the budget.

Media outlets, including Politico, widely misreported the hymn that Herman Cain sang at the end of his appearance at the National Press Club Monday. Reporters -- few of whom have set foot in a church in years, if ever -- reported that Cain was singing "Amazing Grace." But they called the wrong tune. It was, in fact, "He Looked Beyond My Fault," whose melody, which Cain carried beautifully, sounds nothing like "Amazing Grace."

Lynn University in Boca Raton will host the third presidential debate of the 2012 election,the nonpartisan, nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday. The debate is set for Oct. 22, 2012.

Before concluding his appearance at the National Press Club today, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sang an African-American Christian hymn and brushed aside the notion that the political attacks on him are race-based. Ditto for Obama, he said. "The opposition to this president has nothing to do with race. It's bad policy that people have problems with." Cain then invited the audience to follow his campaign bus and witness a broad outpouring of support. "This many white people can't pretend that they like me," he said to laughter.

Restaurant executive Craig Miller, now running in a crowded Republican primary looking to challenge Democrat U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, highlighted his record in the private sector on Monday and contrasted that with the incumbents record.

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged Monday that he had been accused of sexual harassment while head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. But Cain said he was "falsely accused" and branded the allegations reported in a Politico story over the weekend "totally baseless and totally false." Politico, citing unnamed sources, said a cash settlement was made to two women, who had reportedly signed an agreement to stay quiet about the matter.

Efforts to expand gaming in the Sunshine State are not limited to casinos in South Florida. Gadsden County commissioners on Tuesday are scheduled to hear a request to let the residents in one of the poorest counties in Florida decide if slot machines could be installed at Creek Entertainment Gretna Racing that is to open next month about 25 miles west of Tallahassee. The race-track and poker room is an effort by the Alabama-based Poarch Band of Creek Indiansand developer David Romanik.

NASA will announce plans on Monday to partnerwith the Boeing Co. to build space taxis in the vacated space-shuttle processing hangar.

Gov. Rick Scott made appointments last week that went to the board of trustees of the Florida Virtual School, Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County, Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee, and Florida's Defense Support Task Force. # # # Brian S. Cunningham and Linda J. Pellegrini were appointed to the board of trustees, Florida Virtual School. According to the release from the governor's office:

Gov. Rick Scott has reappointed T. Spencer Crowley and appointed Aaron L. Bowman to the Florida Inland Navigation District. Both appointments require Florida Senate confirmation. The district runs along the Intracoastal Waterway, from Nassau County along the Georgia line to Miami-Dade County. According to the release from the governors office: Crowley, 37, of Miami, is an attorney with Akerman Senterfitt. He is reappointed for a term beginning Oct. 25, 2011, and ending Jan. 9, 2015.

Anthony Mungins murder conviction stands for the killing of a Jacksonville Lil' Champs clerk in 1990, but the Florida Supreme Court says a new witness's testimony should be heard. The court, in a 5-2 ruling, justices Ricky Polston and Charles Canady dissenting, declared that a hearing should be held on the assertions by the new witness who claims to have been the first on the scene of the murder and robbery.The new witness claims that when he arrived, Mungin wasnt there.

Florida's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Matthew Lee Caylor who was convicted of raping and killing a 13-year-old girl, Melinda Hinson, at a Panama City motel in 2008. Caylor is a registered sex offender from Georgia who told police he was selling cocaine and methamphetamines while in Panama City. Hinson's body was found under a bed in a room in the hotel previously rented by Caylor two days after she was reported missing.