After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

The Governors Office released a video of Gov. Rick Scott offering a message for the start of Yom Kippur.

In the important race for the Electoral College numbers, Florida and Ohio, two key states, are leaning toward President Obama over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to the Washington Post. The poll put Obama up 51-47 among likely voters in Florida, 52-44 in Ohio.

Notices have been sent to approximately 167,398 Florida borrowers that lost their homes to foreclosure between the start of 2008 to the end of 2011 that they could be part of a large class settlement, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday. The postcards will precede claims forms that will be mailed out by Oct. 12. Eligible borrowers, eligible for a piece of$1.5 billion through a national mortgage foreclosure settlement, had mortgages serviced by Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

Three years after U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Charlotte, first submitted the name of the Treasure Coasts most prominent jurists for the new $56.3 million federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, the Senate has finally agreed. And now the building just needs President Obamas signature to take on the moniker of Alto Lee Adams Sr., the founder of the vast Adams Ranch and who was twice appointed to the states highest court.