UF men’s basketball up to No. 8– Florida moved up two spots to No. 8 this week in the AP men’s college basketball Top 25 poll after defeating Missouri Saturday. The team also moved up to No. 7 in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 coaches poll.

Florida socialite at center of David Petraeus scandal breaks silence – Jill Kelley, the Florida socialite caught up in the David Petraeus scandal, claims she was “terrified” by a series of threatening emails the CIA director’s mistress sent to her last year.

North Fla. mom pays for security at child’s school– A north Florida woman is paying an armed deputy to patrol her child’s elementary school due to safety concerns following the shooting that killed 20 children in Newtown, Conn.

National high school graduation rates at a four-decade high – The percentage of students at public high schools who graduate on time has reached its highest level in nearly 40 years, according to federal government estimates released Tuesday.