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     Members of the Enterprise Florida Executive Committee this week signed off on the dissolution of the agency’s board as of Sunday, as required by a bill (HB 5) approved by the Legislature this spring.

The state’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has topped 1.4 million policies, as it continues to add thousands of policies a week. Citizens had 1,406,189 policies as of Friday, up from 1,399,554 policies a week earlier and 1,391,777 policies two weeks earlier, according to data posted on its website.

After Florida lawmakers in December passed major changes to try to shore up the property-insurance industry, a Senate committee next week will receive presentations about the insurance market.

With convicted murderer Michael Duane Zack scheduled to be put to death in less than two weeks, his attorneys have asked a federal appeals court for a stay of execution because they say he was “shut out” of a clemency process that could help spare him.

Robinson was speaking during a stop on his fall Presidential Recruitment Tour at the Florida State College-Jacksonville, (FSCJ) Kent Campus auditorium three days after the announcement that FAMU climbed to No. 91 among top national public universities, No. 3 among all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and remained the top ranked public HBCU for the fifth consecutive year.