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Saturday, June 22, 2024

Black History Museum final meeting | UCF considers camping ban | Orlando abortion clinic fears closure

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State postpones final meeting on Black History Museum, a blow to Eatonville's fading hopes to win it

The selection committee faces a June 30 deadline to complete its work, giving it little time to reconsider its earlier choice of St. Augustine.

After spring student protests, UCF considers camping ban

UCF trustees will vote on a camping ban Tuesday following pro-Palestinian protests in the spring.

Orlando abortion clinic fears closure after 6-week ban, seeks donations

Clinic leaders said they have seen a "drastic" decrease in patients at the facility, one of just two in Orlando, since Florida tightened its abortion law

NASA again pushes plans for Boeing Starliner return to Earth

The new target departure of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams is no earlier than Tuesday, June 25,extending again what was supposed to be about an eight-day visit to the ISS in the the first human spaceflight for the commercial Starliner capsule and service module.

Apopka police: Call for medical aid ends with 1 dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

It started with a 911 call about a medical episode and ended with a SWAT team on scene and one person dead, according to police.

Central Florida mom attempts to become 1st woman to win gender-neutral title in pro cornhole event

Cheyenne Bubenheim, 23, is a new mother is one of four finalists competing Saturday in an American Cornhole League competition open to men and women at the Milwaukee suburb of New Berlin, Wisconsin.

Orlando mother whose child killed woman gets 5-year sentence

The 10-year-old fired twice at a neighbor who was arguing with her mother, Lakishra Isaac. The sentencing comes amid a national debate on charging the parents of minors involved in gun crimes.

DeSantis signs bill compensating Dozier School victims who endured abuse

A bill signed Friday provides $20 million to compensate victims of physical and sexual abuse at the Dozier School and another state reform school in Okeechobee County.

Man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband also found guilty of kidnapping and faces life in prison

A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30 years in federal court has also been convicted of aggravated kidnapping by a state court, a conviction that mandates life behind bars. A San Francisco jury on Friday found David DePape also guilty of first-degree burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, threatening a family member of a public official, and dissuading a witness. Last month, a federal judge sentenced DePape to 30 years in federal prison for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi.

Commentary: DeSantis can't erase climate crisis, or the students fighting it

Ron DeSantis can't erase the climate crisis, or the students fighting it By Cameron Driggers In a move seemingly torn out of the screenplay of "Don't Look Up," Adam McKay's parody of climate denialism, Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill to largely erase mentions of climate change from state statutes. This decision, in its unimaginable detachment from reality, has wrought national uproar. Yet, the bill's signing comes as no surprise given DeSantis' persistent effort to redefine reality as he sees fit. Of course, the climate crisis does not care if it is mentioned in state law. Last week, vast swaths of the state faced catastrophic flooding. […]