TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release: Attorney General Ashley Moody's Cold Case Investigations Unit is filing murder charges in a 28-year-old homicide case. Authorities in Delaware arrested Stephen Ford for the murder of his girlfriend Doris Korell. In 1996, law enforcement found Korell's body with 83 stab wounds in a drainage ditch in Manatee County. Attorney General Moody's CCIU worked with multiple agencies to bring informat  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody today recognized eight members of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department for saving the life of a seven-month-old infant from a fentanyl overdose. Two officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrived on scene first, reviving the infant through targeted sternum rubs before rushing the baby to the  more

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Daytona State College issued the following news release on Sept. 3, 2024: * * * DSC reported a 29% increase in Nursing program graduates and a 99.1% and 96.8% pass rate for graduates taking the NCLEX licensed Registered Nurse examination over the past two years * * * Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke at Daytona State College Tuesday morning to highlight Nursing program achievements made possible through funding provided by the State and community partners  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Florida State University issued the following news: By Amy Farnum-Patronis Record numbers of Florida State University undergraduate students are earning their degrees in four years or less thanks in part to significant investments by university leadership to enhance the academic experience. FSU's four-year graduation rate reached a new high of 76%, up from 75% last year, while the university's retention rate maintained a stellar 96%, matching last year's reco  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Miami-Dade County Public Schools issued the following news release: Miami-Dade County Public Schools' (M-DCPS) Procurement Management Services was recently honored for the first time with the 2024 Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Award by the National Procurement Institute. M-DCPS was among 198 winners in the U.S. and Canada, and one of only 23 school districts to receive the award. "We started to hire based on capacity, instead of experience, reshaping  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Florida State University issued the following news: By Paige Rentz More than 30 students began their Florida State University experience a week early to hone their leadership skills and engage with the Tallahassee community. Now in its 22nd year, FSU's Service Leadership Seminar (SLS), hosted by the Center for Leadership & Service, aims to inspire and enable participants to create positive, sustainable change in their local, national or global communities. T  more

ORLANDO, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Orange County issued the following news: Investing in the community is always a good thing. Local non-profit leaders are reaping the benefits of this investment through Empowering Good, a nonprofit capacity building program designed to help Orange County nonprofits sustain to thrive and ultimately serve more people. Just over two years ago, Orange County Government and the Rollins Crummer Graduate School of Business announced a multi-million-dollar partnership offe  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Sept. 5 -- Eckerd College issued the following news: * * * Think you know about food? Consider this: Not only is watermelon native to Africa, the fruit found its way to America because its seeds were woven into the hair of West African women who came here. * * * By Tom Zucco And the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco by a Japanese immigrant to attract tourists to his tea house. And tacos were transportable sustenance for Mexican silver miners. These and o  more