The Florida Times-Union won top honors in the Florida Press Club’s annual Excellence in Journalism Competition Saturday for its story about the secret deal and the public collapse of an effort to privatize the country’s eighth-largest community-owned utility, JEA. The year-long investigation won the Frances DeVore Award for Public Service, an award named for the club’s founder, and the Lucy Morgan Award …

Applause and commendations … Here are the finalists from arguably the best state of news in the country! Thank you to all who participated. You are all winners in our book. Don’t read anything into the order of names, but, please have a look and make sure your name and your publication’s name is spelled correctly. Details of the recognition …