NASA ‘moon tree’ takes root at DeLand Catholic school • DeSantis signs law designed to protect seniors from financial scams
 Orlando Sentinel Evening Update Wednesday, May 29, 2024 | | |
| | | | High school sports group's 'gender ' to 'sex' shift | NASA 'moon tree' planted | Financial scam law | | | | The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved changes in the Florida High School Athletic Association's bylaws that include replacing the word "gender" with the word "sex," amid a larger dispute between federal and state officials. | | | | | After the launch of Apollo 11 from Cape Kennedy in 1969, Orlando's Roman Catholic bishop said he should be the bishop of the moon. That claim was never made official, but now at least one of the diocese's Central Florida schools has its own "moon tree." | | | | | A measure (SB 556) that will allow banks to delay disbursing money if employees believe that seniors or "vulnerable" adults could be getting financially exploited has been signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis. | | | | | NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday as their much-delayed flight to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner looks like it may finally happen come Saturday. | | | | | Legislative staff suspended further payments to St. Cloud Rep. Paula Stark until she updates the accounts. | | | | | The jury in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial sent its first note to the judge after less than four hours of deliberations. The four requests included testimony related to a 2015 meeting at Trump Tower where a tabloid publisher agreed to identify negative stories about Trump so that they could be squelched during his presidential run. Jurors wanted to hear accounts of that meeting from two participants — Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, and David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer. | | | | | Former President Donald Trump is congratulating Justice Samuel Alito for rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving Trump and Jan. 6 defendants because of the controversy over… | | | | | Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler have been dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world's top male golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship. Jefferson County Attorney Mike O'Connell, a local prosecutor, asked a judge Wednesday afternoon to drop the four charges against Scheffler. Scheffler was not required to be in the courtroom Wednesday. Scheffler was charged with a felony for assaulting a police officer with his vehicle, along with three misdemeanors. Scheffler has said he simply misunderstood the commands coming from traffic officers. | | | | | The Lions hit the road and will face the Chicago Fire at Soldier Field on Wednesday. | | | | | "Inescapable" did play for 24 hours straight at Fringe ArtSpace — with a bigger cast than expected. Plus, some thoughts on parking and more. | | | | | The Rolling Stones are coming to Orlando on their Hackney Diamonds Tour, set to perform for a large crowd at Camping World Stadium on June 3. | | | |
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