Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida

The law, passed during a February special legislative session, created state crimes for undocumented immigrants who enter or re-enter Florida.

The court decision backed the Leon County school system in a dispute about a student wanting to express a gender identity and use pronouns the child's parents didn't support.

The Florida Public Service Commission largely rejected a request by consumer representatives to reconsider its rate decision, though the panel agreed to fix a mathematical error.

Glen Rogers is slated to be executed on May 15 for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs in a Tampa motel room.

The bill bans cellphones throughout the school day and would create a pilot program in six counties that would prevent cellphone use in high schools the entire school day.

The Senate advanced the bill, which would repeal a 1990 law and allow some people to seek “noneconomic” damages in cases. But not until an overnight delay following a fierce debate.

The case centered on sanitation certificates that county health departments, which are overseen by the state Department of Health, issue to establishments.

The school will ask the high court to overturn a decision last year by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the FHSAA over a prayer on a stadium loudspeaker before a football game.

The judge wrote that a spill "would have catastrophic consequences due to the proximity of the well to nearby streams, wetlands and ponds.”

At least five bills have passed the House or the Senate that could help lead to more charter schools, bolster charter school facilities, and in some cases, ensure charter schools get a cut of local tax dollars.