As Florida drifts closer to the Arctic Circle, let's see what's happening in other local news:

• The man who was shot and killed by a Pembroke Pines police officer Monday afternoon was Clifford Sheldon McLean, a 24-year-old North Miami man suspected in the torching death of his mother earlier that day. [Miami Herald]
  
• Derek Black, a white nationalist leader from West Palm Beach, is making another bid to join the Palm Beach County Republican Party, a year after his much publicized victory in that election was disqualified on a technicality -- his failure to sign a loyalty pledge before a deadline. [Palm Beach Post]
  
• Near-freezing nighttime temperatures are cause for anxiety among South Florida farmers who feared it would kill their crops. [WPLG-10]

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Palm Beach County schools Superintendent Art Johnson finally pulled the plug on a much-maligned academic program that called for more testing of students and that was assailed by parents as being destructive to the quality of public education. [Palm Beach Post]