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MiamiHerald.com: Florida

• Florida budget cuts impact schools, social services
  Teachers are digging into their own pockets for school supplies. Identity-theft investigations are slowing down. And thousands of nursing-home workers are bracing for layoffs.
• Florida House speaker aided pal's proposal
  A year and half after slipping $6 million into the state budget for an emergency facility at his hometown airport, House Speaker Ray Sansom led a hastily arranged meeting with local officials to explain how they might use it.
• Florida Crystals challenges Florida-U.S. Sugar land deal
  A rival sugar grower has filed a second legal challenge to the state's $1.34 billion land deal with the U.S. Sugar Corp. Florida Crystals filed an administrative complaint against the South Florida Water Management District on Tuesday, the deadline to formally contest the actions of a state agency. The district's governing board, by a 4-3 vote Dec. 16, approved the purchase of 180,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land.
• Budget crisis getting worse, Florida lawmakers are told
  Florida lawmakers began a grim budget-cutting session Monday with more bad news: the state's deficit is likely $100 million bigger than expected and Florida leads the nation in food stamp requests.
• Trial to begin in turnpike slayings
  Somewhere in the Texas border town of Brownsville, the bodies of Yessica Guerrero Escobedo, her husband, Jose Luis Escobedo, and their two sons lie in a cemetery.
• Without Jeb Bush, Senate race in Florida is wide open
  Former Gov. Jeb Bush is taking a pass on Florida's up-for-grabs U.S. Senate seat in 2010, dashing the hopes of Republicans thirsting for a heavyweight champion and setting the stage for fiercely competitive primaries in both parties.
• Grand jury to hear complaints against Ray Sansom
  AND ALEX LEARY North Florida State Attorney Willie Meggs said Wednesday he will turn over complaints he has received about House Speaker Ray Sansom to a Leon County grand jury later this month.
• Florida budget cuts impact schools, social services
  Teachers are digging into their own pockets for school supplies. Identity-theft investigations are slowing down. And thousands of nursing-home workers are bracing for layoffs.
• Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom quits college post
  House Speaker Ray Sansom reluctantly resigned a six-figure job at his hometown college Monday, succumbing to intense public criticism and questions about tens of millions in tax dollars he steered to the school.
• Budget crisis getting worse, Florida lawmakers are told
  Florida lawmakers began a grim budget-cutting session Monday with more bad news: the state's deficit is likely $100 million bigger than expected and Florida leads the nation in food stamp requests.
• Florida Legislature about to chop budgets for education, other services
  Florida legislators will start the new year in familiar fashion: by cutting aid to schools and other programs, borrowing money, skimming cash surpluses and hiking traffic and court fees to patch a $2.3 billion hole in a leaky state budget.
• Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom hires attorney in ethics case
  House Speaker Ray Sansom has hired a well-known Tallahassee lawyer to defend him against an ethics complaint filed in connection with his taking a $110,000 job at his local college.
• Florida Legislature to hear public's views on budget cuts
  The state Legislature will give the public a fleeting chance to sound off next week before making deep cuts in programs to patch a $2.3 billion budget deficit.
• Northwest Florida State College has a friend in Legislature
  More than a year before accepting a controversial job with his hometown college, House Speaker Ray Sansom was regularly taking direction from the man who later would become his boss.
• Gov. Crist's budget plan spends savings
  To close a $2.3 billion budget hole, Gov. Charlie Crist asked lawmakers Tuesday to gamble a bit: Raid savings accounts and trust funds, avoid permanent spending cuts for now and hope for better times to come.
• Second Cuban American in running for Florida Supreme Court seat
  Gov. Charlie Crist started to quiet criticism over a Cuban-American lawyer's nomination for a Supreme Court seat by saying Tuesday that he'll consider another candidate, Judge Jorge Labarga, for the seat as well.
• Deputy arrested for giving out information
  Authorities say a Polk County deputy was arrested for giving out information from a criminal database.
• New veterans cemetery opens in Jacksonville
  A national veterans cemetery has officially opened in Jacksonville.
• Disney's Space Mountain to get renovations
  Space Mountain - one of Walt Disney World's most iconic attractions - will be closing this spring for a makeover.
• Army Ranger killed in Iraq
  An Army Ranger from Daytona Beach was killed while conducting combat operations in Northern Iraq.
• Fla. House Speaker could face grand jury soon
  Embattled House Speaker Ray Sansom could find himself before a grand jury soon.
• Judge rules in Ron White marijuana case
  A Vero Beach judge has found comedian Ron White guilty of minor drug charges.
• Florida man found dead at NC rest stop
  Authorities say a Florida man has been found dead in a trash bin at an Interstate 40 rest stop in North Carolina.
• Brothers get 9 years in prison for hospital fraud
  Two brothers who founded a large medical supply firm have been sentenced to nine years each in prison for defrauding a Miami hospital.
• Sister of man taken in Mexico asks for his return
  The sister of a U.S. anti-kidnapping expert who was abducted last month in Mexico appealed for his return on Wednesday.
• Fla. lawmakers nearing deficit reduction deal
  A deficit-reduction package that includes nearly $1 billion in spending cuts for schools, health care, social services and other state functions cleared a pair of House panels Wednesday.
• Florida invited to party with Obamas
  Barack and Michelle Obama's inauguration dance cards are getting filled up with 10 officially-sanctioned balls, including a Southern Inaugural Ball to which Floridians are invited.
• Jeb Bush's decision on U.S. Senate run due
  Republican excitement over the prospect of Jeb Bush running for U.S. Senate has given way to increasing speculation that the former governor will stay out of the race.
• Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom quits college post
  House Speaker Ray Sansom reluctantly resigned a six-figure job at his hometown college Monday, succumbing to intense public criticism and questions about tens of millions in tax dollars he steered to the school.
• Powerball jackpot huge, but sales are slow
  Peter Vasquez strolled out of the Publix supermarket near Northeast 90th Street and Biscayne Boulevard on Sunday, several lottery tickets in hand.
• Florida Lotto jackpot up to