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The push by Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to repeal some of the state’s vaccine requirements for public schools and day care kicked off Friday with a lengthy and contentious hearing held in a hotel in Florida’s Panhandle. Ladapo made the call to get rid of all vaccine mandates contained in […]

Florida’s University Chancellor Ray Rodrigues was already the highest-paid state employee with his more tha $441K salary, beating out the No. 2 employee (Education Commissioner Anastasios “Stasi” Kamoutsas) by roughly $110K. But on Friday, that financial lead grew when the Board of Governors of the State University System approved a three-year contract extension including a […]

Parents and experts say gaming poses many of the same risks for kids as social media, and want them included.

Parents and experts say gaming poses many of the same risks for kids as social media, and want them included.

TOPEKA — An estimated 750,000 Kansans could receive a chunk of a $700 million settlement, but they must be Android users to be eligible. Attorneys general in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico announced this week an agreement reached in a lawsuit accusing Google of harming consumers who made purchases in the Google […]

While overflowing rivers were beginning to recede across western Washington on Friday, officials said it could be days or even weeks before residents can safely return to areas swamped by this week’s historic flooding.  Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders as reports of flood damage continued to emerge from around the state. Federal support […]

The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.

Florida’s Board of Governors on Friday scrapped a year-old rule that let its chair sign off on presidential finalists before they are sent for votes by university trustees — a policy critics said vested too much power in one individual. Now, the state chair no longer will have a role in approving presidential finalists. Incoming […]

TOPEKA — A global industrial waste company that sought to open a recycling facility in a historic Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood withdrew its plans after organized opposition from environmental activists and community advocates. Reworld, which manages industrial waste and converts it into energy, homed in on the city’s Armourdale neighborhood for its new processing facility […]

The Board of Governors of the State University System gave a unanimous go-ahead Friday for Moez Limayem to assume the presidency of the University of South Florida. Limayem, now president of the University of North Florida, succeeds retiring President Rhea Law amid a broader shakeup statewide of public university presidents. He will be USF’s ninth […]

California's governor Gavin Newsom issued a strongly-worded statement in response to the executive order.

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