More than $150 million has been spent already on the legislatives races in Florida this year, with a month left until the votes are tallied.

Another $50 million-plus was currently available for additional TV, print and Internet ads as October began, according to numbers released Monday by the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

The majority of the money has come through the political parties and electioneering groups that include super-PACs, which have collectively raised $168 million and spent $126 million before October began.

There is a bittersweet feeling around the Kennedy Space Center and across the Space Coast as the space shuttle Atlantis is made ready to be rolled out for public display.

Hundreds of technicians and support crew who have spent decades preparing each orbiter for flight will also be mothballed in two upcoming rounds of layoffs in early December and just after the new year.

Its just the latest of the 8,000 shuttle workers laid off from Floridas KSC after the NASA shuttle program was ended and the gap widens before the Space Launch System advances.

Gov. Rick Scott and Orlando area leaders on Thursday officially welcomed the prospects of 213 new therapeutic jobs from a Minnesotapharmaceutical distribution company.

St. Paul-based Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefit management company,is expected to be based atSouthridge Commerce Park in Orlando, locating inside a 55,000-square-foot building.