Far fewer students pass FCAT reading exam
In Sarasota, 61 percent of 10th-graders passed, down from 68 percent in 2011. In Manatee, 50 percent of 10th-graders passed, down from 58 percent. READ MORE
Eric Ernst
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Ernst: Confused in roundabouts? So is law enforcement
- Ernst: Campaign video takes an unusual tack
- Ernst: Where can we find another Jon Thaxton?
- Ernst: Sarasota citrus farmer is last of a dying breed
- ERNST: Englewood Elementary goes the extra 34,000 miles
- Ernst: Oil from spill is still out there
- Ernst: No easy answers on Venice parking
- Ernst: YouTube video knocks firm out of running
HTPolitics
- State officials plan to check status of 182,000 voters
- Florida political calendar, May 18
- Area congressman debates how to treat suspected terrorists
- Citizens rate increase on new policies moves forward
- Federal court rejects challenge to Florida law regulating outside political groups
- Campaigning, Romney favors Clinton and Obama Reagan
- Citizens chairman urges lawmaker involvement on rate increase
Obituaries
- Benfield, Charles David
- Beverly, James Dean
- Bruce, Douglas Raymond
- Buckley, Timothy A.
- Burke, Kathleen M.
- Calbert, John "Jack"
- Davis, Eunice Harrison
- DelGaudio, Elke F.
- Donohue, Bernice F.
- Garbart, Robert E.
- Giguere, Elwin Benson
- Hamilton, George McKinley
- Heinen, Guenther
- Hibler, Deborah Mae (Hammer)
- Hughes, Cecil E.
- Kurz, Joan Ellen Marie
- Lange, Lloyd L.
- Lewis, James "Jimmy"
- Morton, Marie Blanche
- Pickford, Betty Virginia
- Quintrell, Samuel Wendell
- Rita, Schwaberow
- Ritter, John Hawkes
- Rosendale, Olivejean
- Ruppel, Frances Wilson
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