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Superintendent Terry Connor said he is hopeful that most teachers will be able to find a position in the county next school year, as some retire and others move out of the area.
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North Florida's flat, rural cattle pastures — longtime dumping grounds of South Florida's sewage sludge — will close their gates to feces-filled trucks by 2028. That's owing to a provision of Florida's Farm Bill. -
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Zarzaur LawA grand jury indicted Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky of Destin after investigators alleged he mistakenly removed the liver and not the spleen of a patient during a procedure in Walton County. -
Screen Shot/Florida ChannelIt's been two months since the state dropped a suit against the federal government that was supposedly delaying the changes that would open health coverage to more than 42,000 children. Why? That's a mystery.
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