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Faculty and staff greet police officers stationed outside of at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. With a heavy police presence, classes resumed for the first time since several students and teachers were killed by a former student on Feb. 14. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

High School Reopens After Shooting

by Kelli Kennedy Associated Press, Terry Spencer Associated Press, and Josh Replogle Associated PressMarch 1, 2018

President Donald Trump pauses as he arrives to speak about the mass shooting at a South Florida High School from the White House, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Suspect Admits to Shooting

by Terry Spencer Associated Press, and Kelli Kennedy And Tamara Lush Associated PressFebruary 16, 2018

Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Joel Auerbach)

Ex-Student Kills at Least 17 at Fla. School

by Terry Spencer Associated Press, and Kelli Kennedy Associated PressFebruary 14, 2018

This Aug. 24, 2015 photo shows Broward School Board Superintendent Robert Runcie inside a bus in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The Florida Legislature recently changed state law to allow any resident to challenge their school district's textbooks and curricula and get a hearing before an outside mediator. Runcie, who is also the president of the state superintendents association, said the changes are "cumbersome." Districts have always encouraged parents and residents to voice concerns about materials and curricula, he said, and the mediator is an unnecessary step. (Joe Cavatetta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

In Fla., Any Resident Can Challenge Textbooks

by Terry Spencer Associated PressNovember 26, 2017

Sgt. Donald Young places a U.S. flag over the casket of Sgt. La David Johnson during his burial service at Fred Hunter's Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. Mourners remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

Slain Soldiers Remembered at Emotional Funeral

by Terry Spencer Associated PressOctober 22, 2017

Joseph Ross, left, cleans up debris from his damaged home with help from a neighbor in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Naples, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Seniors Fight Heat in Wake Of Hurricane

by Terry Spencer Associated Press, and Jay Reeves Associated PressSeptember 14, 2017

The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. Patients were evacuated after a loss of air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

8 Die at Florida Nursing Home

by Tim Reynolds Associated Press, and Terry Spencer Associated PressSeptember 14, 2017

Chuck Schwarz, left, holds hand with his wife Cathy at Heritage Woods of South Elgin, Friday, June 30, 2017, in South Elgin, Ill. Medicaid Americans 65 and order and the disabled make up about a quarter of Medicaid recipients but account for two-thirds of its expenditures. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Medicaid Cut in Health Bill Worries Nursing Home Set

by Terry Spencer Associated PressJuly 9, 2017

In this Wednesday, July 20, 2016, frame from video, Charles Kinsey explains in an interview from his hospital bed in Miami what happened when he was shot by police on Monday. Kinsey, a therapist who was trying to calm an autistic patient in the middle of the street, said he was shot even though he had his hands in the air and repeatedly told the police that no one was armed. (WSVN via AP)

Man Says Hands Were Up When Police Shot Him

by Terry Spencer Associated PressJuly 22, 2016

In this, Monday, July 11, 2016 photo, views of Lake Okeechobee stretch out into the distance at Harney Pond Canal Recreation Area and Margaret Van De Velde Park in Lakeport, Fla. The massive algae outbreak that recently caked parts of Florida's St. Lucie River with guacamole-thick sludge is just the latest in an annual parade of such man-made afflictions. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Algae Is Ruining Florida’s Waterways

by Terry Spencer Associated PressJuly 17, 2016