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The article focuses on former President Donald Trump's closed hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, where his legal team sought access to highly classified materials, arguing their relevance to his defense in the case where he is charged with illegally retaining classified documents.

Reports that according to charges filed on May 13, 1997 by Florida's attorney general, a number of paper and consumer products companies have conspired to fix prices for toilet paper sold to commercial customers since 1993. Details of the price-fixing suit, filed in federal court in Gainesville, Florida; Listing of some of the companies named in the suit; Comments made by Mark S. Rogers, an analyst with Prudential Securities in New York.

The article reports on the missing votes in the 2018 midterm elections in Florida which could be caused by error in ballot-scanning machines and an errant paper clip.

Discusses the controversy and troubles engulfing St. Joe Paper Co. Details of holdings in Florida; Background and functional profile of the company; DuPont's background, role in setting up of St. Joe, will and controversy surrounding it; Role of Edward Ball, younger brother of DuPont's second wife; Details regarding problems of the company and proposed expansion plans.

The article discusses several Florida counties' switching from touch-screen voting machines to casting paper ballots that are scanned by machine. Warren Stewart, policy director of VoteTrust USA, likened Florida's election problems to the Bermuda Triangle. On January 29, 2007, U.S. Representative Rush D. Holt introduced a bill that would require a paper trail on voting machines nationwide.

Reports that Florida-based Senator Bob Graham has filed papers to begin raising money for the election campaign. Need for the lawmaker to take physician's clearance before starting the campaign.

The article comments on the replacement of touch-screen voting by optical-scanning systems in Florida. As stated, under the optical-scanning system, voters mark a paper ballot, which is then calculated using a computer. The ballot paper can be recounted when the situation arises. However, as quoted, all the states will not have the system available in the January 29, 2008 elections. The article emphasizes on the need to implement the same process in other states also.

The article reports on the threats and subsequent arrest of political cartoonist José Varela of the newspaper "El Nuevo Herald" in Miami, Florida. Varela, a Cuban immigrant and armed with a fake semiautomatic weapon, stormed the newspaper building on November 24, 2006. He threatened the staff. He asked the editors to resign for biased coverage of Cuban-Americans in the paper and its sister newspaper "The Miami Herald." After three hours standoff, he surrendered to the police.

Reports on the recommendation of Miami Dade Country's elections chief Lester Sola to get rid of its ATM-style voting machines and instead, use paper ballots in Miami, Florida.

Reports on the plans of Florida Democratic Senator Bob Graham to file papers towards raising money for presidential election but to delay a formal decision on his candidature. Rationale behind delay in Graham's decision; Significance of the delay for Graham in terms of fundraising.

Discusses the 2,000 ballots that have been set aside in Palm Beach and Broward counties in Florida during hand recounts in the contested 2000 United States presidential election. The ballots, whose paper chads are dimpled instead of punched out; Opinion of the Democrats that the dimpled chads should be counted as a clear sign of the voter's intention; Argument of the Republicans that the dimples may represent mistakes and last minute changes of heart; Other elections which dimpled ballots have helped to determine.

LOOKING back, students of the Tab Express flight school could see the danger signs. They remember the long waits to use airplanes and flight simulators, the difficulty of getting a tuition refund if a would-be pilot withdrew from the program, and the two weeks when the school, in DeLand, Fla., north of Orlando, shut down with no warning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the termination of columnist Jim DeFede who had been secretly taping his conversation with Arthur Teele Jr., the former city commissioner in Miami, Florida.

Reports on efforts of professional baseball player Jason Giambi to make amends with sports fans of the Major League Baseball during the New York Yankees spring training in Tampa, Florida. Impact of the controversies implicating that he used steroids while playing in the Major League; Loyalty of fans during spring training; Challenges faced by a player who is trying to redeem himself after a mistake.

Reports on the documents about the case of Rilya Wilson, a missing girl under state protection in Florida, which were released on May 24, 2002.

Presents a humorous report on the word 'chad', a term used for the paper rectangles that are made from punch-card ballots. How 'chad' has become a famous word due to the difficulties of ballot counting in Florida during the 2000 United States presidential election; Accounts of famous and non-famous people who are named Chad; Feelings of the author regarding his name and its popularity.

Reports on the decision of Miami Herald Publishing Co. not to pursue plans to rename a Florida convention center the `Herald Center at Greater Fort Lauderdale.' Value of the plan for renaming the convention center; Views of critics on the plan of Miami Herald; Reason behind the withdrawal of Miami Herald from the plan.

Reports on the plans of International Paper Co. to sell its Arizona Chemicals business operations in Jacksonville, Florida as part of its divestiture plan. Reasons for the sale; Estimated value of the business division; Number of people employed by the division.

Focuses on the Miami Herald Publishing Company in Miami, Florida and its bilingual customer base. Features of its newspapers `The Miami Herald' and `El Nuevo Herald'; Challenges for the newspaper publishing company, including suburban exodus, immigrants who prefer radio to newspapers, and erosion of advertisers; Comments from publisher and chief executive, Alberto Ibarguen; Outlook.

Reports that Miami, Florida Mayor Xavier Suarez warned `The Miami Herald' newspaper against using harsh words against the condition of Miami, or face losing advertisements. Reasons for the threats from Suarez; Details on the message given by Suarez on January 5, 1998.

Reports that the documents held by the tobacco industry in West Palm Beach in Floria has been released to the public by a state judge. Information on what the documents contained; Effects of the release of the eight documents; Comments from Bob Butterworth, the Florida Attorney General; Who was the judge that made the documents public; Details on other aspects in the releasing of the documents.

Comments on millions of Florida voters casting ballots in November 2004 on the proposed use electronic voting machines that do not produce paper records.

The article reports on the dominance of "The Villages Daily Sun" newspaper that exhaustively covers the rapidly growing retirement community at The Villages in Central Florida, achieving a boom that few other papers can even imagine amid a decline of weekday newspaper circulation across the U.S.

BOSTON -- The standings say that the Boston Red Sox have a two-game lead on the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League wild-card race with 10 games to play. On paper Boston is in good shape, but only on paper. The Red Sox were beaten again by the Rays, this time by 8-5, a loss that trimmed their once seemingly insurmountable advantage in the wild-card standings. Tampa Bay took three games in this four-game series to stay very much alive for a postseason berth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electronic voting is notoriously vulnerable to technical glitches and vote theft. By now, most states have passed good laws requiring paper records of every vote cast -- an important safeguard. But that is not enough. States also need strong audit laws to ensure that machine totals are vigilantly checked against the paper records. That is the only way that voters will be able to trust electronic voting. Computer scientists have shown that it is easy to tamper with electronic voting machines in ways that are all but impossible to detect. The machines also make mistakes on their own. Just this month, the elections supervisor of Palm Beach County, Fla., apologized after machines there failed to count 14 percent of the votes cast in a city commission election. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that after facing trouble in the 2000 presidential elections, the legislators in Florida have voted to eliminate the touch-screen voting system. It has been decided that the touch-screen voting machines will be replaced with a system of optical scan voting. In optical scanning paper ballots marked by voters are counted by scanning machines, which leave a paper trail that could be used for recounting.

The article discusses the new proposals about voting machines in Florida. Governor Charlie Crist is planning to bring an end to the use of touch-screen voting machines that do not produce a paper record. Crist has asked the state Legislature to finance the purchase of the new machines. Besides, Representative Rush Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, will introduce a legislative bill in the Congress, requiring voting machines to produce paper records.

George Zimmerman was released on $150,000 bail from a county jail in Florida around midnight Sunday as he awaits trial on charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. As he left, Mr. Zimmerman was wearing a brown jacket and blue jeans and carrying a paper bag. He followed a man, who was also carrying bags, into a white vehicle and drove away, according to The Associated Press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Amid the shouting between the accusers and the accused, there were dueling lawyers, court papers and mashgiachs -- supervisors who ensure that kosher laws are followed. And then there were the chicken fingers. The news conference outside State Supreme Court in Nassau County on Wednesday was anything but ordinary, but perhaps that should not have come as a surprise: accuse a kosher caterer of providing nonkosher food, and there will inevitably be sparks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

STEVE MILLER is justifiably proud of the manicured grounds around his stately stucco home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. So he was nonplussed last year when he discovered that someone had been tossing plastic bags of dog excrement into the sculptured shrubs around a palm tree in his front yard. ''It was a pile of at least 10 bags,'' said Mr. Miller, 55, who owned a dance costume business in Bristol, Pa., before retiring to Florida in 2005. ''I had my suspicions, but wanted to find out for sure which one of my neighbors was doing it.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Federal regulators gave clearance Wednesday for a large and controversial field test of genetically engineered trees planned for seven states stretching from Florida to Texas. The test is meant to see if the trees, eucalyptuses with a foreign gene meant to help them withstand cold weather, can become a new source of wood for pulp and paper, and for biofuels, in the Southern timber belt. Eucalyptus trees generally cannot now be grown north of Florida because of occasional freezing spells. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal authorities arrested two property developers, a father and son, on Thursday and charged them with participating in a multimillion-dollar tax evasion scheme through a large international bank. The property developers -- Mauricio Cohen Assor and his son, Leon Cohen-Levy -- were taken into custody in New York, a day after they were jointly charged in a criminal complaint filed in Federal District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., court papers show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and the Diocese of Orlando have settled a lawsuit brought by a woman assaulted in 2004 by a priest who broke into her house in Florida, the woman's lawyer announced on Thursday. Neither side disclosed the terms of the settlement. The woman, identified in court papers as Jane Doe, accused church officials of failing to protect her from the priest, the Rev. Wladyslaw Gorak. He left New Jersey that year for what was supposed to be a three-year ministry in Florida. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Florida State has released nearly 700 pages of documents about an academic fraud case at the university after an appeals court ruled that the records should be made public, revealing fresh details and shedding light on the normally secret process by which the N.C.A.A investigates violations of its rules. The 695-page transcript of an N.C.A.A. hearing released Wednesday by Florida State included the testimony of the university president, T. K. Wetherell, who apologized for the actions of a ''rogue tutor'' and an instructor while minimizing the culpability of athletes, who were found to have received answers to test questions and allowed tutors to type and write their papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SUMMER may seem an odd time to flee to Florida, but thanks to a happy accident of geology, there's one small island there that may be better to visit the more the mercury rises. ''Do you really have to put this in your paper?'' asked a frequent visitor, Linda Guckenberger of Columbus, Ind. ''Siesta Key is a hidden treasure, especially in the summer. The heat in Indiana is oppressive in August, so when we tell people we're going to Florida, they think we're nuts. They say, 'Why aren't you going north?' '' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal authorities have arrested a wealthy American client of the Swiss bank UBS on charges of tax evasion. The client, Steven Michael Rubinstein, an accountant, was arrested in Boca Raton, Fla., and charged with one criminal count of filing a false and fraudulent tax return, according to court papers unsealed on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Florida, which struggled with balloting problems in the 2000 presidential election, switched virtually all voting to paper ballots and optical scanners for the 2008 election. A study has found, however, that twice as many ballots were rejected as invalid in 2008 as in 2004. Still, the rejection rate of 0.75 percent was far lower than in 2000, when it was 2.9 percent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the scrutiny of ballots for the general election in the U.S. in November 2008 spurred by problems in the past elections. Ballots will be scrutinized for design details like borders, arrows, capitalization and the placement of names. It cites the ballot changes being made at some jurisdictions, such as in Sarasota County, Florida where one-page paper ballots replace electronic voting machines.

After the controversy over Palm Beach County's infamous ''butterfly ballot'' in 2000, there was a lot of earnest talk about improving ballot design so that voters do not miscast their votes. Two election cycles later, a study has found that ballots around the country are still far too confusing and that poor design and instructions have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in the last several federal elections. The problem of badly designed ballots -- which affects all kinds of voting technology, from paper ballots to electronic machines -- is likely to be particularly acute this fall. There will be many first-time voters, and many jurisdictions have introduced new voting technology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It would be hard for Florida to surpass its disastrous performance in the 2000 election, but give the Sunshine State credit for trying. Its latest assault on democracy: a law threatening volunteer groups with crippling fines if they make small mistakes in registering voters. The law seems clearly aimed at keeping new voters -- especially minorities and the poor -- off the rolls. And it is working. The League of Women Voters, which has registered Florida voters since 1939, has called off its registration drive this year. Florida is not the only state trying to stop eligible people from voting. Georgia passed a law in 2005 that made voters pay for their voter ID cards -- a modern poll tax. The fee was eventually removed, but the law could still block as many as 300,000 registered voters without the right ID from casting ballots. In 2004, Ohio ordered counties to throw out voter registration forms that were not on thick enough paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information about several papers discussed at a meeting on vision by the American Academy of Optometry held in Tampa, Florida, is presented. According to the Contact Lens in Pediatrics (CLIP) Study, children as young as 8 years old can wear contact lenses comfortably. Researchers from the New England College of Optometry found that age-related decreases in visual function play a significant role in older driver fatality rates.

A woman who obtained a restraining order earlier this year in a domestic violence case against the New England Patriots star Randy Moss wants the case dismissed, court records show. Rachelle Washington, 35, filed papers March 3 with the Broward County (Fla.) Circuit Court clerk's office requesting that the order be dissolved and the case closed. Moss, 31, denied that he harmed Washington at her Florida home on Jan. 6, or that he prevented her from seeking medical attention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that U.S. Republican Representative C.W. Bill Young said that he is planning to seek re-election in Florida. Party officials in Washington and in Young's district confirmed that the 77-year-old lawmaker would run again. No Democratic challenger has filed papers for the race yet.

Reports on the discussion of the new pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI at the annual convention of the Religion Newswriters Association in Miami, Florida. Event that brings together religion reporters for major American secular papers and broadcast outlets in the U.S.; Attendance of Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Joseph Fessio at the convention; Discussion of issues concerning the admission of homosexuals to Catholic seminaries.

The article reports that the family of a 5-year-old Florida girl who was forcibly handcuffed by police officers at her St. Petersburg, Florida elementary school last month after misbehaving, is seeking legal action against the officers. The videotaped incident of Ja'eisha Scott being placed into handcuffs by three uniformed police on March 14 occurred after she allegedly acted unruly in her kindergarten class and hit a school official. A 30-minute videotape released by John Trevena, the attorney for Ja'eisha's mother, Inga Akins, showed the girl ripping papers off a bulletin board and punching an assistant principal, among other violent acts. Ja'eisha's reaction and subsequent handcuffing was caught on a camera that was rolling as part of a classroom self-improvement evaluation at the school, according to Trevena, who supplied the tape he said he obtained from police to the media.

Reports on the revision of a lawsuit in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit demanding that all Florida voters who use touch-screen machines receive a paper receipt, in case a recount becomes necessary.

Reports on the use of Arundo donax reeds as a green power source in Jacksonville, Florida. Arundo-related problems which have occurred in California, which blames the reed for fueling wildfires, causing floods and killing fish; Fast growth of Arundo; Other uses of Arundo, including paper and building products; Eradication efforts in California.

Reports on plans of landowner St. Joe Paper to develop its land in the Florida Panhandle. Size of the development project, which will be the largest in Florida since Disney came to Orlando; Concern that the natural character of the region will be changed; Criticism of the plans by local residents.

Describes several tests performed by the author on ballots with paper chads to see if they can come lose during handling in light of the hand recounts being conducted in Florida in relation to the contested United States presidential election in 2000. How the ballots handled the drop test, the fan test, the car test, the whack test, the clothes dryer test, the microwave test, the roll test, the cat test, and the boiling oil test; Conclusion that chads cannot come lose unless it has been deliberately poked out.

Discusses a deal made between Miami Herald Publishing Co. and the Broward County convention center to rename the facility the Herald Center at Greater Fort Lauderdale. Issue of conflict of interest in a newspaper making a deal with a Florida government agency that it covers; Example of publishing scandals, including that involving McClatchy Co.'s 'Star Tribune' for editorializing in favor of a light-rail deal that benefits the paper financially.