Governor Rick Scott came to the First Coast on Tuesday as McCallum Sweeney Consulting certified the Crawford Diamond Industrial Park in Nassau County as a mega-site, making it the second one in the state. Besides having 1,800 acres, the site has rail access, making it attractive to businesses looking to tap into nearby Jacksonvilles increasingly important role in logistics.

On Tuesday, Lutz businessman and consultant Scott Landry Jr. filed to run against Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, as a Democrat. The seat Lee currently holds represents parts of Hillsborough County and is generally considered to lean Republican.

Im really excited to do it, Landry, a first time candidate, told Sunshine State News on Tuesday. I saw there was a need.

Landry said he had talked to business owners in the district and found they were concerned about the direction of the state government.

Yet another former inmate of the infamousArthur G. Dozier School for Boys (Florida's now-closed reform-school-from-hell) has come forward to tell Sunshine State News he, too, witnessed the existence of an additional cemetery on the campus grounds, back when he attended the school in 1969.

Two more former inmates have come forward to tell Sunshine State News that they personally saw a cemetery -- containing anywhere between 30 and 60 graves -- in the white section of the then-segregatedArthur G. Dozier School for Boys, while they were incarcerated at the campus more than 50 years ago.

Researchers at the University of South Florida have requested from the state archaeologist a permit authorizing them to exhume some 50 bodies of long-deceased child inmates of theArthur G. Dozier School for Boys.

"Based on our recommendation at a meeting with interested parties on Tuesday, the University of South Florida has requested a permit from the state archaeologist to allow for an exhumation of bodies at the Dozier School for Boys," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a terse statement announcing the development.

In a unanimous decision, theU.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has overturned the decision of a federal trial court that declared unconstitutional Florida Gov. Rick Scott's decision to drug test all 85,000 state workers employed by agencies under his control, and all applicants to those positions.

The three-judge panel agreed that it was unconstitutional to test all of those employees, but said there could be good reason to test occupants of, and applicants for, certain "safety- sensitive positions."

Despite what you're reading from many mainstream media outlets, Judge William Wright did not "block" Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi from exhuming bodies from the state's infamous Dozier School for Boys; on the contrary, he gave her exactly what she wanted.

In news that won't come as a shock to anyone, U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., has endorsed Republican candidate Mike Hill of Pensacola in the Florida House District 2 special election.

In a 5-2 decision, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that public defender's offices can seek permission from trial courts to stop taking on new cases, if they can demonstrate that their offices are overloaded with clients and cannot provide effective representation to new ones.

The high court's opinion was authored by Justice Peggy Quince. Chief Justice Ricky Polston and Justice Charles T. Canady dissented.

More to come ...

Jacksonville's Mayor Alvin Brown is being hailed in many quarters, even conservative ones, as one of the Democratic Party's rising stars, drawing praise even from many Republicans for the way he has governed Florida's largest city -- and a traditional GOP stronghold -- since his upset election in May 2011.