Feb. 12, 2013: Afternoon News In 90

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• A candlelight vigil is planned for Tuesday night, the 12^th anniversary of Gainesville police officer Scott Baird’s death.
• Shands at the University of Florida is constructing a short-term guesthouse for friends and family of patients to open next year.
• An inmate who was being transported to Las Vegas stabbed a Miami-Dade police officer and escaped during a stop in Texas.
• North Korea says its nuclear tests were a reaction to the U.S. undermining its right to launch peaceful satellites.
• Two Buchholz High School seniors have been named Florida’s winners of the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement, which recognizes achievement in math and science.