Women should be able to buy birth control pills over-the-counter at pharmacies without a prescription, a group of doctors says.
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Casey Anthony detectives overlooked Google search
MiamiHerald.com: Florida
The Florida sheriff's office that investigated Caylee Anthony's death confirmed Sunday that it overlooked a computer search for suffocation methods made from the little girl's home on the day she was last seen alive.
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Sea level rose 60 percent faster than UN projections, study finds
Projections for sea level rise in coming decades could be too conservative, experts warned Wednesday, saying they found that the rise over the last two decades is much more than predicted by the U.N. scientific body tracking climate signals.
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Duval School Board OKs 12 charters, suspension for principal
Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union
Duval County will see 12 new charter schools in coming months. The School Board approved the new schools Tuesday night during its monthly meeting. During the meeting, board members also denied two other charter school applications.
One of the OK'd charter schools — Florida Virtual Academy at Duval County — is run by K12 Inc., the online education company currently being investigated in Florida and Georgia.
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Obama seeking $60 billion for Sandy recovery
President Barack Obama requested Friday that Congress authorize $60.4 billion in emergency spending to help the states hit by the supers-storm Sandy in late October.
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Fla. teachers score well in new state eval system
MiamiHerald.com: Florida
Nearly 97 percent of Florida teachers were rated as "effective" or "highly effective" under a controversial new evaluation system released by state officials Wednesday. The scores varied widely among school districts, leaving critics to questions their validity.
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More Americans using less of their vacation time
In this tight economy, vacations are getting squeezed. Americans are using two fewer vacation days than last year, according to a new survey. On top of that, they have two fewer to use, 12 down from 14.
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Florida Supreme Court rules JTA bus drivers are state employees, cannot be sued
Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union
A Jacksonville Transportation Authority bus driver will not be an individual defendant in a lawsuit filed by a woman who was hit by a bus he was driving.In 2005 Ashleigh Eminisor was struck by a JTA bus on Bay Street that was driven by Andreas Keck. After the accident Eminisor sued Keck and JTA claiming both were negligent.
But on Thursday the Florida Supreme Court said Keck could not be a defendant in the case because he's a state employee. Under Florida law state employees cannot be sued as individuals in lawsuits related to their job duties.
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Florida high-school graduation rate remains among nation's worst
OrlandoSentinel.com - Florida News
Florida's high-school graduation rate has climbed steadily in the past decade and this year made a sizable jump. But students still graduate on time far less often than those in other states, new federal data show.
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Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Buys AEDs for JSO Patrol Cars
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JACKSONVILLE, FL (November 30, 2012) – On Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation awarded $300,000 of lifesaving equipment to 16 police and fire/rescue agencies throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia.
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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: Checking on White House fiscal cliff details
Jamie Dupree
I had a simple question asked by a listener in recent days - what are the details of the fiscal cliff plans? Your simple answer - we know some of the basics, but we don't know most of the details of what is being proposed by each side, though there ...
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Study: US jails could safely hold Gitmo detainees
The controversial detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be closed and the 166 detainees being held there could be absorbed safely by U.S. prisons, a government report says.
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'We're lucky': Nordic land rising faster than sea
In contrast to worries in many parts of the world about higher ocean levels caused by climate change, the entire northern part of the Nordic region is rising and the Baltic Sea is receding.
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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: Sifting through fiscal cliff numbers
Jamie Dupree
As we wait to see if Congress and the President will go over the fiscal cliff at the end of the year on taxes and spending, it's important to remember that the options involved are very well known to both parties in Washington, D.C.It was just a year ago ...
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Jacksonville police, fire retirees to get end-of-year bonus
Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union
The 2,000 or so retirees in Jacksonville's Police and Fire Pension Fund will receive a 3 percent end-of-year bonus, paid for with state money designated for extra benefits.The bonus pool, which Police and Fire Pension Fund Executive Director John Keans says totals about $1.5 million, will come from money known as "chapter funds" that has paid for such bonuses for at least the past dozen years. The average payout will be about $750.
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Sandy washed away job market gains
One month after being clobbered by the largest storm ever recorded in the North Atlantic, it's becoming a little clearer just how big an economic impact Superstorm Sandy is having.
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Florida already funnels millions in tax dollars to religious schools
OrlandoSentinel.com - Florida News
On Election Day, voters turned down a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that critics said could have cleared the way for taxpayer-funded vouchers for religious schools.
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Flurry of new bills filed in Tallahassee
MiamiHerald.com: Florida
None of the bills filed so far address unemployment, foreclosures or healthcare — issues lawmakers deem as the state's most important issues.
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Jacksonville council member eyeing changes to city charity grants
Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union
Though the payoff is millions less than a few years ago, Jacksonville nonprofits still line up for public service grants that City Hall uses to support dozens of charities.Whether that makes sense is an open question.
"What we have right now is the peanut-butter approach" to spending money, said Cindy Funkhouser, CEO of the Sulzbacher Center for the homeless. "They're trying to spread it thin, and a lot of times that isn't what's really needed."
A City Council member is weighing ways to change the grant system — and finding it's not simple.
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