On Thursday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced that she was backing U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams over U.S. Rep. John Mica in a Republican primary battle pitting two Central Florida incumbents against each other.
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Mosquito control is headed to areas pounded by Tropical Storm Debby.
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam has activated the departments Mosquito Control Incident Response Team for providing assistance treating communities in eight North Florida counties: Suwannee, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Bradford, Union, Taylor, and Madison.
The heavy rains from Tropical Storm Debby have resulted in flooding and standing water in a lot of our northern counties, and this has created tens of thousands of acres of mosquito breeding areas, Putnam stated in a release.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich hit the First Coast on Thursday to promote the candidacy of former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the man who beat him for the Republican presidential nomination. But there was another Republican that Gingrich was supporting on Thursday -- U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the favorite to emerge in the August primary to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
Speaking to Republicans in Jacksonville, the former congressional leader said that the Sunshine State would be in the political frontlines come November.
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The Florida Board of Governors has made four of its five appointments to the inaugural board of trustees for Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland.
Sandra Featherman, Ph.D., of Highland Beach.Retired president of University of New England and form faculty senate president at Temple University.
Richard Dick Hallion, Ph.D., of Shalimar. Retired aerospace analyst and executive with the U.S. Air Force, also worked at the U.S. Army War College.
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A multistate settlement involving price-fixing with makers of LCD panels has doubled as additional electronic goods manufacturers have reached agreements.Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that an additional $543.5 million in settlements has been added to the $538.5 million announced in December.
The states had alleged the companies conspired to prevent competition and increase prices for TFT-LCD panels, the most common form of LCD panels used in popular electronic devices.
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Gov. Rick Scott has ordered state and national flags lowered to half-staff at the Tallahassee City Hall, Leon County Courthouse and Floridas Capitol on Friday, July 13, for Private First Class Steven P. Stevens II.
Stevens II, 23, of Tallahassee, died on June 22 while conducting operations in the Helmand province, Afghanistan.
He was assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
By Kevin Derby
As he gears up to seek a third term in the U.S. Senate, Democrat incumbent Bill Nelson raised $1.8 million in the second quarter of 2012.
By Nancy Smith
In a prime national television segment this morning, Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll told CNN's Solidad O'Brien that she is proud of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Speaking before the NAACP convention in Houston on Wednesday, Romney withstood the delegates' boos gracefully, she said, spoke from the heart, and made his case "about as well as it was possible to."
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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is among a handful of state attorneys general trying to determine if they have jurisdiction over banks found manipulating lending benchmarks following British-based Barclays settlement with both U.S. and U.K. authorities, according to Reuters.
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The attorney general and the Florida Office of Financial Regulation have filed a lawsuit against Florida-based Prime Capital Services Inc., and Poughkeepsie, New York-based Asset & Financial Planning Ltd., seeking restitution for not fully informing investors of their management fees.
The paperwork, filed in the circuit court for Sarasota County, declares that Prime Capital and AFP failed to fully inform investors that management fees had been withdrawn from variable annuities, which negatively impacted benefit riders.
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