From the courthouse to the college lecture hall to the driver's-license office, Floridians could pay higher fees as part of legislative plans to pump up the state's withering budget.

Poll: Majority of Venezuelans say Chávez was key to easing Colombia crisis
A majority of Venezuelans say President Hugo Chávez played a key role in lowering tensions in South America after a cross-border Colombian military attack in Ecuador, according to a poll released Wednesday by the government.

ACLU wades into death-penalty cases in Guantánamo
The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has scorned the Pentagon's military commissions as ''kangaroo courts,'' announced Friday that it will mount an effort to provide top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantánamo, notably the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Florida has hotel rooms, but no votes yet
Under fire for not resolving the Democrats' delegate debacle, national party chief Howard Dean offered nervous Floridians a ray of hope Wednesday: Hotel rooms have been reserved at the national convention in Denver for Florida's renegade delegation.

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