There’s a flood warning for urban areas in Southern Lee County until 7:00 tonight. The high waters are a by-product of rains from Tropical Storm Fay. WGCU’s Valerie Alker has more.

A newly issued report says Florida's nursing shortage needs urgent attention. And it says there ARE solutions - but they aren't necessarily quick or easy. Doug Phillips reports;

Governor Charlie Crist made his first appointment to Florida’s High Court yesterday. Judge Charles Canady will fill the vacancy left by Justice Raoul Cantero who resigned earlier in the year. Lynn Hatter reports.

Children in state care will improve despite budget cuts, pledged Florida’s chief justice and the new head of the child welfare system at the Dependency Summit in Orlando. Margie Menzel reports.

And event called “The Dependency Summit” kicked off yesterday in Orlando with a rousing speech by the recently-resigned Secretary of the Department of Children and Families, Bob Butterworth – who urged child welfare leaders to –quote “keep it going.” Florida Public Radio’s Margie Menzel reports.

After two years on the sidelines, former GOP state lawmaker Nancy Detert is back in the political arena. WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Amendment 5 dispute on Sept. 3rd. As James Call reports, earlier this month, a circuit court judge ordered the so-called tax swap amendment off the November ballot, saying it was misleading on several fronts.

Florida’s nearly four-hundred mile long northern border will become a zero tolerance zone for impaired drivers over the long Labor Day weekend. Tom Flanigan reports.

What will happen to "America’s Sweetest Town" once U.S. Sugar sells 187-thousand acres of land in Clewiston, along with two refineries and other assets, to the state? The sugarcane fields had been the barrier to the Everglades Restoration Project. WGCU’s Luis Hernandez asked business owners and residents and the answers run sweet and sour.

Once the polls closed after yesterday’s primary election Secretary of State Kurt Browning called the day an overall success, despite glitches in a few precincts across the state. Trimmel Gomes reports.