» Fort Lauderdale city commissioners voted 3-2 against extending the contract of City Manager George Gretsas, who will be out of a job later this year.

Courtney Miller

» Scripps Research hired memory researcher Courtney Miller, 31, as an assistant professor in the Department of Metabolism and Aging and the Department of Neuroscience. She was scientific director and instructor in the Department of Neurobiology at McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

» Broward County commissioners chose fellow commissioner Ken Keechl to serve in the largely ceremonial post of Broward County mayor and chose commissioner Sue Gunzburger as vice mayor.