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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Florida TEA Party, disbanded by former Chairwoman Peg Dunmire earlier this month, has been resuscitated and renamed the TEA Party of Florida, announced new chairman John Long.
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Gov. Rick Scott is at Captain Andersons Restaurant & Waterfront Market in Panama City today for his fourth Lets Get to Work day.
Scott is working at the landmark waterfront restaurant from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., CDT.
By Kevin Derby
Having lost every single statewide race, four congressional seats and seats in the Legislature in 2010, theres a temptation to say the Florida Democratic Party engages in Mickey Mouse politics.
Apparently Florida Democratic Chairman Rod Smith agrees, since he brought on more than his share of Disney references on Saturday.
By Kevin Derby
The Florida Democratic Convention at Walt Disney World has featured a host of candidates running for Congress.
Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, who lost to U.S. Rep. Dan Webster in 2010, was there with his supporters. So was former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings with her team.
By Kevin Derby
On Saturday, at the Florida Democratic Party Convention in Walt Disney World, Democrat Bill Nelson, the senior U.S. senator from the Sunshine State, said he agreed with remarks Vice President Joe Biden made about the state of the Republican Party.
In a speech to the convention on Friday night, Biden said the GOP had transformed, noting that the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls and the likes of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., did not congratulate President Barack Obama after the fall of the Gadhafi regime in Libya and the death of that strongman.
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