Hundreds rally, march in downtown Orlando for trans rights • Antisemitic incidents a problem in Florida; new hate crime laws make penalties harsher
 Orlando Morning Report Sunday, October 8, 2023 | | |
| | | | Israel battles | March for trans rights | New hate crime laws Good morning. It's Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The weather forecast calls for cloudy skies with a high of 78 and low of 66. Click here for more weather. | | | | Israeli soldiers are battling Hamas fighters in the streets of southern Israel and launching retaliation strikes across Gaza. The fighting was still underway on Sunday more than 24 hours after the Palestinian militant group launched an unprecedented incursion into Israel. The fighters took captives back into the coastal enclave, including women, children and the elderly, who they will likely try to trade for thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Israeli media say at least 300 people have been killed, including 26 soldiers. Palestinian officials say more than 300 people have killed in Gaza. A brief exchange of strikes between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group meanwhile raised fears of a broader conflict. | | | | | Cries for fair treatment filled the air Saturday afternoon as hundreds marched in downtown Orlando in support of rights for transgender people in Florida. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights helped organize the event, which follows a lawsuit challenging a state law that prohibits transgender people from using public bathrooms that don't align with […] | | | | | A man who was arrested recently for spewing antisemitic slurs in front of a Sunny Isles Beach synagogue and threatening congregants on their way to Shabbat services will face felony charges under a new Florida law enacted earlier this year. The defendant, Yudel Antonio Herrero, 47, was charged with a misdemeanor for disturbing a religious assembly, […] | | | | | A Florida man and his three sons who sold the equivalent of industrial grade bleach to tens of thousands of people, marketing it as a miracle cure for COVID-19, were all sentenced to prison in Miami federal court Friday. | | | | | The committee tasked with considering whether to shrink the number of judicial circuits in the state will hold a public meeting in Hillsborough County next week, followed by a closed-door executive session. The Judicial Circuit Assessment Committee, appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to make a recommendation by December, will hold a meeting to get […] | | | | | Over the past two weeks, Donald Trump said shoplifters should be immediately shot, suggested the United States' top general be executed and mocked a political opponent's husband who was beaten with a hammer. | | | | | A Texas man who attacked the U.S. Capitol with a metal tomahawk — and is now the face of a website selling merchandise portraying jailed rioters as "political prisoners" — was sentenced Friday to seven years behind bars. | | | | | During Banned Books Week, which wrapped up Saturday, it's shameful that the nation is looking to Florida as an example of what might happen if narrow-minded bigotry is allowed to barricade young minds | | | | | Orange County Commissioners, who voted unanimously in favor of UCF getting $88 million to upgrade its football stadium, immediately became the biggest financial donors in UCF athletic history. And it's not even close. | | | | | Not even the return of injured quarter John Rhys Plumlee, who was making his first start after missing the past three games with a knee injury, seemed to provide much of a spark. Plumlee played the first three possessions before being replaced by backup Timmy McClain midway through the second quarter. | | | |
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