The 1st District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee had not, by 4 p.m. received an appeal challenging the 5 p.m. deadline from either the Gore campaign or Volusia County, an official in the clerk's office said.
All restrictions for the district's roughly 2, 200 students were called off about 1 p.m. after state troopers called school officials and said that operations could return to normal, according to McDonald.
After work hours, downtown Midland empties out at 10 p.m. one recent night not a single pedestrian walked on Wall Street, the business district's main artery.