Citrus
growers expect to see better days ahead.  The U-S Department of
Agriculture has lifted its ban on the commercial shipping of citrus to
other citrus growing states, put in place over fears of spreading
citrus canker.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports.

The Arcadia man seeking compensation from the state of Florida for being wrongfully imprisoned for more than 20 years has to wait at least two more weeks to learn the outcome.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports.

Sixty
five new state laws go into effect this week in Florida, including a
tightening of the state’s seat belt law.  WGCU’s John Davis reports.

Officials
with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission will be in
Punta Gorda Thursday night seeking public comment on a proposed plan to
tighten restrictions on shark anglers.  WGCU’s John Davis reports.

A federal appeals court yesterday reversed a judge’s ruling saying that the South Florida Water Management District violated the Clean Water Act by pumping polluted canal water into Lake Okeechobee.  Water managers say the pumping is necessary…environmental advocates say they’ll appeal.  WGCU’s Mike Kiniry reports.

As of July 1st drivers in Florida who are not wearing their seatbelts can be stopped and ticketed.  It’s estimated the new law will save about 124 lives a year.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

President
Barack Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David
Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court has gained attention from southwest
Florida Latinos. WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports.

Lee County’s roughly 98-thousand feral cats can now be
legally
trapped, sterilized and released back into the community where they
were found.  Last month Commissioners there voted to change the
county’s Animal Control Ordinance to allow so-called ‘Trap, Neuter
& Release’ … or TNR.  Animal Control spokeswoman - Ria Brown – told
WGCU’s Mike Kiniry that until now the county’s feral cat population
could only be managed thru eradication... 

Hundreds
of people with sickle cell disease – or friends or relatives of people
with the inherited blood disorder - will converge on Tallahassee
Thursday.  They will urge lawmakers not to cut anymore funding for
outreach and research programs…funding that’s aimed at what they call
“Breaking the Sickle Cycle”.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker has more.