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pn Monday, September 15, 2014 SunSentinel.com Sun Sentinel IB Local State bans lionfish breeding Florida has banned the breeding of lionfish, one of a series of recent control measures that have come years too late to vent these invasive fish from infesting the state's waters. Volunteers needed for coastal cleanup Volunteers who want to beat back the tide of pollution can go to more than three dozen Palm Beach County sites from Boca Raton 1 to Jupiter on Saturday for the local version of the The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission earlier this month voted to ban the harvest or possession of lionfish eggs or any International Coastal Cleanup. Go to keepPBCbeautiful.org to find the site and Online today 8 a.m.: See who partied too hard over the weekend and spent the night behind bars. SunSentinel shots hours that best fit your schedule and location. Registration for each site is unique.

jseacn in iy 85, tnese venomous nsn rrom tne Indian and Pacific oceans have spread throughout the state's coastal waters, gobbling up native fish and thriving in the absence of natural predators. David Fleshier In exchange tor a little sweat equity, participants are eligible to receive credit for community hours served and free commemorative T-shirts (while supplies last). For more information, call 561-686-6646. AnneGeggis Remedial courses shunned JOE CAVARETTASTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER New law allows some students to skip classes By Scott Travis Staff writer The number of students taking remedial college classes in Palm Beach County has dropped by nearly half in the past year, but that doesn't mean they're suddenly better prepared. A new state law, effective this fall semester, allows students who have graduated from a Florida high school in recent years to skip non-credit math, reading and English classes and go directly into college -level work.

In the past, community college students were automatically enrolled in reme dial classes if they scored low on a placement test As a result, enrollment in remedial classes at Palm Beach State College the only public community college in the county has plummeted from 4,985 last fall to 2,952 this fall, a 41 percent decline. Other colleges in the state are also seeing big drops, with Broward College losing half of its remedial students and Miami Dade College losing about 30 percent Palm Beach State College officials say they've beefed up tutoring and advising to assist these students and are referring them to free online classes that teach basic skills. Students still enrolled in the college's remedial classes can also finish them quicker. Separate reading and Eng- See CLASSES, 66 Aaron Rathy lands after executing a trick in the contour big air competition at the World Wakeboard Association's World Championship finals on Saturday at Mills Pond Park. Getting serious air time World Wakeboard Association wraps championship finals Winners Junior Pro Men's: Cory Teunissen, Australia Pro Wakeskate: Reed Hansen, Orlando Pro Women's: Bee Grange, Australia Pro Men's: Harley Clifford, Australia bragging rights as best in the world.

Over four days, the event brought 4,100 spectators to the park to watch wakeboarders do 180-degree turns, or ten-eighties, which is a move where boarders spin around three times. "The way the wake works, you are able to launch yourself into the air," said Rob Corum, executive director of the World Wakeboard Association, explaining the basic premise of wakeboarding, which evolved from water siding in the late 1980s. Jennifer Bostwick, 26, is a firefighter in See SPORT, 2B By Anne Geggis Staff writer FORT LAUDERDALE Whether you know a corked spin from an invert, the weekend spectacle at Mills Pond Park proved humans on boards towed by motorboats can hurtle through the air in superhero style. Or, as many did at the World Wakeboard Association's World Championship finals, they could plummet to the water in a serious faceplant. The invitation-only event that wrapped up Sunday brought 200 wakeboarders from IS different countries to compete for Drivers smash warning gates A troubled home, an agonizing death warning drivers to keep out if the lanes are closed.

"It sounds like maybe people aren't paying attention and veering to the left a bit and smacking into the gates," said Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Mark Wysocky. Some drivers say the problem may be the gates themselves. "They almost reached the lane of travel I was in," said Martin Steinberg, of Davie. "Any slight swerve at 65 mph for any reason to the left will lead right into those gates." See HIGHWAY, 2B By Michael Turnbell Staff writer The signs on the Interstate 595 warning gates say: "Do Not Enter." But that hasn't stopped drivers from plowing into the gates 105 times since March 26, when the new re-versible express lanes opened, state records show.

The 9. 5 -mile stretch of highway between State Road 7 and 1-75 has 34 warning gates and five barriers designed to keep drivers from entering the tolled lanes in the wrong direction. Each entrance has signs sent there. A victim of medical neglect, according to the Department of Children Families, she now rests beneath a small grave marker etched with musical notes and linked hearts. An autopsy determined that the 14-year-old succumbed to dehydration, the result of a severe but treatable infection.

Her death spawned the 140th DCF See DEATH, 46 By Carol Marbin Miller Miami Herald The 'educational center' where Paige Lunsford died has been the subject of repeated investigations but never any fines or serious sanctions. For five days and five nights, Paige Elizabeth Lunsford a severely disabled teen retched "like a waterfall," could not eat and thrashed about in an "educational center" staffed with teachers, nurses and a doctor. Paige was sick, and getting sicker. But caregivers did not send her to a hospital. Instead, they bound her wrists, ankles, biceps and waist with restraints to keep her from flailing.

Paige, nonverbal due to autism, could not ask for help. And none came. Blond, pigtailed Paige, the child of Margate residents, died at the Carlton Palms Educational Center in July 2013, baking with fever, 10 days after she was Intersection where accidents occur located on private property 4 university, not the city. Why has Bayview Drive been closed between Oakland Park and Commercial boulevards, including closures on Sunday? P. A.

Franklin, Fort Lauderdale Florida Power Light is installing stronger poles and equipment along the street, capable of withstanding wind gusts up to 145 mph, said company spokeswoman Carissa The work requiring lane closures between Oakland Park and Northeast 44th Street should be completed by mid-October with the entire project finished in January. A litde further north, the Northeast 55th Street bridge between Bayview Drive and U.S. 1 is closed for emergency repairs. While city crews were repairing the bridge, engineers discov- See ROADS, 2B Why isn't there a traffic signal at Technology Way and 50th Street in Boca Raton? Serious accidents occur there at least twice a month and it's impossible for drivers to go from west to east across the intersection. It would only be needed during business hours.

Nathan Alters, Boca Raton Technology Way, which extends south of Yamato from Congress Avenue, is not a public street and the inter section in question is in a private development. The signal was not required by the city when the site plan for the development was approved, so now it's out of the city's hands. Boca Raton, which maintains its own traffic signals, isn't responsible for traffic control devices on private property. For instance, there are traffic signals on Florida Atlantic University's campus but they were installed by the Michael Turnbell tic clipping JUST CLICKING Get everyday savings, every day. No login.

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