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Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the Florida Department of Education approving the new African American history standards Wednesday in a speech to a crowd of legislators in Orlando.

Audrey Hartley and Constance Scott were each elected to three-year terms on Pittsfield Community Television’s board of directors recently at PCTV’s annual meeting.

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Two coalitions of Carroll County businesses duked it out Wednesday night, competing for the honor of buying the grand champion cake at the Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair.

The wife of a man who died after falling at an assisted living center in Lantana last year has now filed a lawsuit against the home.

Boca and Delray Election Results & Ruminations Shelly Petrolia was on Tuesday’s ballot. She won. Barely. He won. Big. Petrolia and Singer, the mayors of Delray Beach and Boca Raton involved themselves in this year’s elections to an unusually high degree for these cities. Each was seeking to create a like-minded voting bloc. Petrolia began her effort last year. She helped to defeat a well-financed, well-known incumbent, Bill Bathurst, and replace him with Juli Casale. In the last year, Casa...

BOCA RATON — Voters returned two incumbents to the Boca Raton City Council by comfortable margins Tuesday night. In the Seat C contest, Yvette Drucker bested Constance Scott and two other candidates. She got a bit more than 50 percent of the vote, with all precincts reporting. Drucker was appointed over 31 other candidates in October to fill the remainder of Jeremy Rodgers’ term after he went overseas on a military deployment. Drucker is a longtime community volunteer who has served on the...

By Joel Malkin 19 municipalities in Palm Beach County held elections on Tuesday and we have the results. One of the biggest headlines coming off of the elections is that three longtime incumbents in Lake Worth Beach have lost to challengers. They include three-term Mayor Pam Triolo, who was defeated by one-time city attorney Betty Resch. In District 1, Sarah Malega beat incumbent Commissioner Scott Maxwell and incumbent Andy Amoroso fell to challenger Kim Stokes in District 3. Triolo, Ma...

Belle Glade election: Three win commission seats With all six of the citys precincts reporting, Joaquin Almazan, Andrew "Kenny" Berry finished first in the races for three city commission seats. Almazan, vice president of the Palm Beach County Democratic Partys Hispanic Chamber, opposed Stephen Messam for Seat C. Incumbent Larry Underwood did not seek re-election.  Wilkerson, the incumbent in Seat B, faced a challenge from Robert C. Mitchell. Berry, senior pastor of Grace Fellowship Wor...