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MAGGIE BROWN The University of West Florida sophomore will appear in the Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament on Thursday, March 2. The 14-day special event pits 27 former teen contestants in the traditional College Championship format with a $100,000 grand prize for the champion. Brown was the Tate High School Class of 2021's co-salutatorian. She was on the 2020 Senior Homecoming Court and named to the 2021 Senior Hall of Fame. At UWF, she is the Honors Council service chair, Student Government Association secretary and works at the UWF library. Brown is also a Gulf Coast Diplomacy Council intern and helps coach Ransom Middle's academic team.

LANDRUM FAMILY FOUNDATION The foundation committed $100,000 to the Baptist Health Care Foundation for its new Baptist Hospital campus. The first-floor conference center will be named in honor of the Landrum family. H. Britt Landrum Jr. has served on the Baptist Health Care board of directors since 1993, including many years as past vice chair, until he became an honorary board member in 2016. In 2008, Baptist Health Care Foundation selected him to receive the Hollinger Award for Volunteer of the Year.

KEVIN STEPHENS The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority District 5 member paid off the lunchroom student debt at Tate High, Ransom Middle and Kingsfield Elementary. Stephens donated $1,000 per school to cover any outstanding balances and any future balances for the remainder of the school year, according to NorthEscambia. com. He is up for re-election in 2024.

REUNION BAND After 33 years of performing, the band that was formed in the summer of 1989 has announced its retirement. The Reunion Band has been a mainstay at outdoor events, class reunions, Mardi Gras balls, birthday parties and fundraisers, playing classic rock and R&B. The band will play six more times before closing its tent for good on June 1. Dates and locations will be announced soon for the band whose motto has been, "if you can't dance to it, then we don't play it."

HARVEY WEINSTEIN The movie producer last week was sentenced to 16 years in prison for committing sex crimes in Los Angeles County. In December, a jury had found him guilty of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object. Weinstein, 70, is currently serving a 23-year sentence in New York after his 2020 conviction in that state.

JASON PIZZO Circuit Judge John Cooper dismissed the next Senate Democratic leader's lawsuit concerning Gov. Ron DeSantis' use of state funds to fly migrants in Texas to Martha's Vineyard last year. Sen. Pizzo had alleged the state budget used to pay for the flights was unconstitutional. His case was made moot after the GOP's supermajority in both state chambers repealed the part of the budget used as a basis for the flights and created the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program in a special session called by DeSantis.

JARRELL LAMAR REYNOLDS The former recycling manager at the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority's Materials Recycling Facility has been sentenced to seven years in state prison, plus three years of probation, for selling $510,000 worth of recyclables through a shell company he owned. In September 2018, ECUA hired Reynolds. Within four months, he created JAT Recycling in Georgia to acquire the property from ECUA. Reynolds used the profits to purchase cars, investment properties and other personal expenses.

DAVID EASTMAN The Republican state lawmaker in Alaska has been censured by his colleagues for comments that fatal cases of child abuse are "actually a benefit to society because there aren't needs for government services and whatnot over the whole course of that child's life."

GEORGE SANTOS Politico reported donations totaling over $9,000 recorded by George Santos' 2019 campaign do not show up in the financial filings of the purported recipients, including a $2,800 contribution to Donald Trump's re-election committee that the former president's campaign never recorded. The apparent irregularities call further attention to the New York Republican's veracity or lack of it.