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October 07, 2023

Morning report: Tropics update | Oviedo elementary school | Tourist-tax funding

Parents sue after fourth-grader handcuffed at Oviedo elementary school • Orlando venues shut out of Orange County’s tourist-tax funding – for now
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Orlando Morning Report

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Tropics update | Oviedo elementary school | Tourist-tax funding

Good morning. It's Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a high of 87 and low of 73. Click here for more weather.

Hurricane center ups odds for next tropical system in Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center has increased odds a tropical wave in the Atlantic could become the busy season's next tropical depression or storm.

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Parents sue after fourth-grader handcuffed at Oviedo elementary school

Parents of a 9-year-old child with special needs filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Oviedo after body camera showed school resource officers at Stenstrom Elementary School handcuffing and threatening to take him to jail for acting unruly earlier this year.

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Orlando venues shut out of Orange County's tourist-tax funding – for now

Orange County commissioners may look to cut tourist-tax funding for Visit Orlando which got $100 million in 2022 to promote the region's attractions and charm.

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Florida kicked 63,000 people off Medicaid during pandemic, report shows

Even as Florida accepted billions of federal dollars to keep people enrolled in Medicaid during the pandemic, the state terminated medical coverage for almost 63,000 residents, according to a new federal audit. The "continuous coverage" protection for Medicaid recipients was put in place through the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, passed in March 2020 as COVID-19 cases began spreading across […]

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Atlas V launches from Cape Canaveral with prototype Amazon satellites

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket climbed through the Space Coast skies carrying a pair of prototype satellites to orbit on the first of what's planned to be dozens of launches for Amazon.

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Orlando's No Casinos wants seat at table in sports betting lawsuit

A group that spearheaded a 2018 ballot measure to make it harder to expand gambling hopes to help sway the Florida Supreme Court to reject a deal that would give the Seminole Tribe control over sports betting throughout the state.

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Halloween sales bring vacant Oviedo Mall space back from the dead

Spirit Halloween is bringing in customers to the former Sears at Oviedo Mall.

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Editorial: Protect nursing-home residents from COVID surge

Authorities need to talk up COVID boosters, and work hard, especially to increase vaccinations among nursing home residents and employees. Even one needless death is too many.

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Burning down the House of Representatives | Steve Bousquet

Columnist Steve Bousquet analyzes the successful effort by Rep. Matt Gaetz to remove a sitting House speaker for the first time in American history.

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Aiming to improve as playmaker for Magic, big man Carter Jr. grows as leader

Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said Wendell Carter Jr. has a heightened level of focus about himself in training camp. "Going into my sixth year, he understands I do a lot of the little things for this team," Carter said of his coach. "He understands that I just want to win."

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