Lawmakers didn’t get the months-overdue report on the state’s disaster fund debts until just before a vote on adding more money to it.

Republicans voted yes, Democrats no, as the panel approved funds for contracts already fulfilled and a worst-case $1.5B deficit looms.

He had a similar experience when he taught his first course at Miami Dade College at just 18 years and 346 days old. Thomas, now 20, has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s youngest male professor, breaking a 306-year-old record once held by a 19-year-old. He is also the youngest professor overall.

That deficit is based on an assumption of two major hurricanes and four severe weather events and no increase in federal revenues received, the report said. Emergency managers said the state could anticipate an additional $2 billion in costs if there are two major hurricanes this year.

There are plenty of legal tools grand juries can use to pry out evidence when no one will admit wrongdoing. The Hope Florida grand jury didn’t appear to use them.

The state’s wildlife agency aims to raise requirements for sloth ownership in the state, but advocates say a permanent import ban is crucial.

Fans of the Florida State Seminoles have created a website for people to donate to help cover the cost of Mike Norvell's buyout.

A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s is scheduled to become the state’s 15th person executed this year.