Twenty years ago, NBC's "Today" devoted three days of interviews to the insufferable Kitty Kelley, who unspooled baseless allegations against Nancy Reagan, like her supposed love affair with Frank Sinatra.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has no choice but to accept the states vast reduction in the rate increase requested for sinkhole coverage for now, while hoping to return with better numbers in July.

The state Office of Insurance Regulation late Monday night lowered the requested sinkhole rate request for Citizens from an average of 447 percent to 32.8 percent, declaring Citizens failed to provide enough credible data under Senate Bill 408, which passed last session, to justify the full increase at this time.

Growing participation in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program is being accompanied by modest academic improvement among the state's lowest-performing students, according to a new study. And education reformers point to deeper long-term benefits.

"There may be positive effects on FTC Scholarship Program participants in terms of reading and mathematics test-score gains," reports Northwestern University researcher David Figlio.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on Tuesday announced his leadership team for the Republican Party of Floridas Presidency 5 event in Orlando later this week that includes some of the heavy hitters in Florida politics. Perry will compete in a straw poll on Saturday that two of his chief rivals -- U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts -- have downplayed.