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Gov. Rick Scott signed House Bill 7029 on Thursday, allowing parents to choose available public schools for their students throughout the state rather than only in their district.

A full day of horsing around — including demonstrations and a tack sale — to benefit an equine rescue organization is set for Saturday at the Canterbury Equestrian Showplace in Newberry.

The City Commission will get to work this morning interviewing candidates for the city manager position, but the day will be a little shorter than expected.

Need a night out?: There’s team trivia at Sweet Mel’s from 7:30-9:30 p.m., 1 W. University Ave., or there’s live jazz with no cover (sweet!) from 10 p.m. until midnight at Market Street Pub, 112 SW 1st Ave., for all you swing dancers.

The Union County Commission decided to go the route of a moratorium on mining applications in response to public opposition to plans for a phosphate mine.

The quiet Oakleigh neighborhood has grown noisy recently as work crews and heavy machinery clear woods and carve out a construction site for the long-planned extension of Southwest Eighth Avenue.

Gainesville-based software company Optym is hosting a conference bringing in executives from major rail, airlines and trucking companies to talk about how to better move goods in an increasingly global and interconnected world.

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team won the fourth annual 2016 Southeast Missouri SWAT Challenge this past weekend.

Motorists across the country are paying on average $2.11 per gallon of regular gas, up 7 cents from last week, and the highest price at the pump since November 2015.

Two people were injured Sunday morning when their speeding vehicle went off the roadway on Interstate 75 in Columbia County, overturned and went partially up an embankment.