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| 2/5/2016

› SCF faculty aim to unionize after board eliminates tenure
Less than 10 days after the State College of Florida’s Board of Trustees voted to eliminate tenure at the school, faculty members have taken the first step to unionize.

› Duke Energy, FPL customers are still paying sharply different electricity bills
Florida's dominant providers of electricity entered 2016 charging residential customers generally lower rates thanks to the lower cost of natural gas increasingly used to power much of their generating plants.

› UCF hack: 63,000 Social Security numbers stolen from students, staff
In an unprecedented data breach at UCF, about 63,000 Social Security numbers and names of former and current students and UCF employees were hacked, officials revealed Thursday.

› Florida python hunters break record
It’s done. Hunters have smashed the record for catching Burmese pythons during the state-sanctioned hunt when they raised the number bagged to 82 as of Monday.

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