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A salutory visit

[AP photo]
USS Harry S. Truman chaplain Cmdr. Blues Baker greets first-graders with high-fives Tuesday during a visit of several officers to Silver Ridge Elementary School in Davie. The aircraft carrier and its crew of 3,000 are at Port Everglades for Fleet Week and Fort Lauderdale's Air and Sea Show this weekend.

Four Escambia commissioners are indicted
Four of the five Escambia County commissioners were booked into their hometown jail Tuesday night after a grand jury indicted them in connection with questionable land deals.

Democrats decry timing of Bush proposal
They say the governor is trying to derail an amendment to reduce class sizes.

Bush gets emotional at drug summit
The mention of the drug problems in his own family chokes him up.

School code bill finally okayed
TALLAHASSEE -- The Senate easily passed a massive bill Tuesday updating state education laws, less than a month after failing to pass the measure during a special session.

Bush enters dispute over regulating banks, insurance
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday stepped into a legislative battle over regulating the state's banking and insurance industries in an effort to reach a compromise that has eluded legislators for three years.