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Manufacturing breaks a down trend as unemployment drops in South Florida Saturday, 19 May 2012, 2:44 am
Unemployment continues to drop in South Florida, though job growth is slowing. In Miami-Dade, the rate fell below 10 percent, while Broward’s manufacturing industry continued its rebound.
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Half of Florida high school students fail reading test Friday, 18 May 2012, 11:25 pm
MIAMI (Reuters) – Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state's new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday. Results this year from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed 52 percent of freshman students and 50 percent of sophomores scored at their grade levels. Students in the 10th grade must pass the exam in order to …
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Florida's April jobless rate drops to 8.7 percent Friday, 18 May 2012, 6:33 pm
Florida's unemployment rate dropped to 8.7 percent even though the state lost jobs in April because thousands of people left the labor force.
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Florida searches for non-citizen voters Friday, 18 May 2012, 5:49 pm
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 18 (UPI) — Florida election officials say they'll rely on a federal immigration database to review a list of 182,000 voters they suspect are not U.S. citizens.
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Environmentalists demand ‘citizen’s arrest’ of Florida regulatory official Friday, 18 May 2012, 3:32 am
Environmental groups are attacking the secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, claiming he has a conflict of interest because of his previous work handling water pollution matters.
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Florida Tries to Clear Illegal Voters From Rolls Thursday, 17 May 2012, 11:17 pm
Florida officials are investigating more than 180,000 suspected noncitizens in an effort to tighten voter registration ahead of the presidential election.
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2 plead no contest in Florida A&M hazing case Thursday, 17 May 2012, 10:19 pm
Two former members of the Florida A&M University band pleaded no contest to reduced charges of misdemeanor hazing in the beating of a freshman clarinet player as part of a deal with prosecutors Thursday.
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Florida tourism number show slight gain in 2012 Thursday, 17 May 2012, 3:33 pm
Florida tourism officials say numbers for the first quarter of the year are up slightly over the same period a year ago.
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Florida voter rolls suspected of having roughly 53K dead, 2,600 ineligible Thursday, 17 May 2012, 2:07 pm
Florida's local election supervisors on Wednesday sounded skeptical, and even distrustful, of a push by the state to remove thousands of potential non-U.S. citizens from the voting rolls just months before the critical 2012 elections.
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Florida Attempts to Scrub Illegal Voters Thursday, 17 May 2012, 2:06 am
Florida officials are investigating more than 180,000 suspected noncitizens in an effort to tighten voter registration ahead of the presidential election.
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