Tania Rosa Rodriguez, 57, applied for citizenship in 2017 and was naturalized in 2018. On her application, Rodriguez stated under penalty of perjury that she had never committed a crime.

Some of the testing overlapped, so part of the goal was to eliminate duplication of district tests assessing skills that the state is already testing.

A little over a month after earthquakes devastated neighboring Venezuela, western Colombia is now reeling from a powerful quake that struck Monday morning. For South Florida, nonprofits like Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) in Doral are again the focus of relief aid donations.

"Trump’s new executive order changing the childhood vaccine schedule against the advice of pediatric experts is dangerous and makes no sense," said Frankel in a statement. She represents Florida's 22nd Congressional District.

“Florida’s colleges and universities are meant to be places for debate, disagreement, and discussion,” said Nicholas Warren, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Florida. “FIU cannot turn its campus into a ‘protest-free zone’ through student conduct rules."

Dwindling enrollment means a smaller budget for the district. The 11,000 fewer students as the school year opens equates to about $100 million less in funding.

A measure to re-up a 2020 law that helped chip away at a $35 billion maintenance backlog at national parks and public lands, and set to expire next month, has gained bipartisan support.

In a live radio interview, City Commissioner Miguel Gabela said trash collection fees may be on the rise if Florida's homestead tax amendment passes in November.

The FEA report reveals that advertised instructional vacancies across the state have climbed to 3,157 — hundreds more than at this time last year. When combined with education staff professional positions, total vacancies stand at approximately 5,536 statewide.

Ten students at Miami Central traveled abroad this summer for an exchange program in Zimbabwe.