Schools in Florida are seeing an increasing amount of Puerto Rican students who are escaping the devastation left by Hurricane Maria on September 20. Approximately 3,000 Puerto Rican students are now in Orlando, 600 in Miami and more than 100 in Ocala. Four new students from Puerto Rico are now enrolled in South Ocala Elementary School.
A bill that cleared the Senate by a single vote has small liquor store owners fearing for the future of their businesses. Liquor stores all across Florida are begging Governor Rick Scott to veto the "Liquor Wall" bill, which finally squeaked by after years of coming up short.
Big plans are in store for the City of Gainesville, according to the three city commissioners sworn in this afternoon. Each made promises after he or she was sworn into office during a ceremony at the Thelma Boltin Center. District 2 commissioner Harvey Ward took the seat vacated by a term-limited Todd Chase.
Kendall Lewis's mother had no idea something was wrong when her daughter was born. "When (doctors) took the suction down to clear all the secretions in her throat, they knew that they couldn't pass it all the way down," Mindy Lewis said.
Plum Creek's plan for development in eastern Alachua County will not go to the state for review, the county's elected officials decided in a 3-2 vote on Tuesday night. At least not in its current form, it won't.
To many, magic is something reserved for fairy tales and children's movies. For surgical rehab patient Gaye Roberson Jackson, however, magic is something much more tangible. "I'm like, 'put Magic's head right here, right here,'" Jackson said. "That may be psychological, but when Magic put her head right here, it was like the pain is gone now."