Sneezes, sniffles and scratchy throats: Orlando ranks high for worst seasonal allergies • Emmitt Smith, Steve Spurrier, UF president Ben Sasse, NAACP not helping embattled coach Billy Napier | Commentary
 Orlando Morning Report Sunday, March 17, 2024 | | |
| | | | Florida legislature | Seasonal allergies | Mike Bianchi Good morning. It's Sunday, March 17, 2024. The weather forecast calls for a sunn day with a high of 87 and low of 66. Click here for more weather. Want to go deeper? Why not sign up for one of our focused newsletters such as Go For Launch on the latest space news. Sign up here | | | | If you were frustrated by rules restricting electric fences, here's some good news. But if you liked Orlando's requirements promoting electric car charging, too bad. | | | | | Orlando ranks among the top 20 most challenging cities for those living with allergies in the 2024 Allergy Capitals report by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. | | | | | In recent weeks, Napier's had to deal with UF icon Steve Spurrier calling out his program and another UF icon, Emmitt Smith, excoriating UF's diversity policies and the NAACP warning Black college athletes to think twice about playing in Florida. | | | | | Two 16-year-old girls were stabbed Friday night in Orange County and one died, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies responded around 11 p.m. to a physical altercation near the Amscot in the 700 block of South Goldenrod Road, OCSO said. They found two girls were stabbed upon arrival. Both were transported to the hospital […] | | | | | An individual is in critical condition after being shot in Downtown Orlando around 8:15 on Friday night, the Orlando Police Department said. OPD said two individuals were in a physical altercation and shots were fired by one of them. Both were transported to the hospital. The individual shot is in critical but stable condition. The […] | | | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed bills that increase the prison and jail sentences for immigrants who are living in the United States illegally if they are convicted of driving without a license or committing felonies. The governor tied the driver's license bill signed Friday to a Florida law that already bars such immigrants from obtaining one. It increases the maximum sentence for anyone convicted of driving without a license twice or more to a year in jail. Another bill increases the maximum prison sentences for immigrants who are convicted of felonies after having been previously deported from the country for illegal entry. Critics call the new laws harsh and unneeded. | | | | | The Legislature's new ban on public sleeping "targets urban homelessness without bothering with the tangle of social, economic, legal and mental health pathologies that have left 31,000 Floridians adrift on city streets," writes columnist Fred Grimm. "Rather, HB 1365 provides Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies another vulnerable subset of humanity to malign and mock for fun and political profit." | | | Police in South Florida say they've arrested a woman believed to be the mother of an infant found dead in a trash bin earlier this year, and the man who helped her dispose of the body. They're charged with failure to report a death. Hollywood police say the man is also charged with illegal disposal of a body. Police say the full-term baby boy was found on Jan. 7 by a roofing company worker who noticed a foul odor coming from the trash bin. Police used video surveillance to track down the owner of a car that stopped by the trash bin. The medical examiner hasn't yet determined whether the baby was born alive. | | | | | Magic forward Franz Wagner made it clear Friday in Toronto that Orlando needs to enter Sunday's contest vs. Toronto with the right mindset. "Coming into every game, honestly," he said. "Every game matters for us." | | | | | After living in Arkansas, Alabama, and Tennessee, Kincy is back in the Sunshine State and is reunited with his former coach, Gus Malzahn. | | | |
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