By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — Florida's Walt Disney World will now require union employees as well as non-union and salaried workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to keep their jobs at the theme park. The company also said Wednesday it would soon require ...
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — The coronavirus is disrupting more classrooms in Florida while lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis argue against school mask mandates in a Tallahassee courtroom. Three more school districts announced hearings Tuesday to discuss stricter ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The former school resource officer accused of hiding during a South Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead will have to convince a jury that he wasn't criminally negligent, a judge ruled Thursday. Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss ...
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami-Dade school board has fired a 34-year-old sergeant with district's police agency following a fight with police officers while she was off duty earlier this year. Dubraska Guevara asked board members on Wednesday to spare the job she's held since 2014, but they approved ...
JACKSONVILLE (AP) — DNA evidence helped investigators match the 1985 kidnapping, sexual assault and death of a 17-year-old Florida girl to a man already serving two life sentences in Michigan on sexual assault charges, police said. David Nelson Austin, 59, has been charged with first-degree ...
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The fight over redrawing political maps is just ramping up in state legislatures and nonpartisan commissions around the country. But both Republicans and Democrats already are planning for major showdowns in the courts. For months, Democrats and ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was thrown into the Florida Everglades and drowned when his family's pickup truck blew a tire last year have been charged in his death. Marc Dorizar faces a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child, while he and his ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Barron Trump, the 15-year-old son of former president Donald Trump, has enrolled at a private school not far from his father's Mar-a-Lago home. The teen will be attending Oxbridge Academy starting next week as a sophomore, the Palm Beach Post reports. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press called on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to end "harassing behavior" by one of his press aides against an AP reporter who received threats and other online abuse. Incoming AP CEO Daisy Veerasingham sent a letter Friday to DeSantis protesting tweets by press ...
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida officials are threatening to withhold funds equal to the salaries of school board members if school districts in two counties don't immediately do away with strict mask mandates as the state continues to battle through high ...