Mike Schneider
The Associated Press
Orlando, FL, United States
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Nicole Moves Through Georgia After Leaving Trail of Destruction Through Florida
Tropical Depression Nicole was moving through Georgia on Friday morning after a day of causing havoc as it churned through Florida as a hurricane and then a... → Read More
Hurricane Ian's Lucrative Cleanup Deals Generate New Storm
It has been a month since Hurricane Ian wiped out parts of southwest Florida. Now multimillion-dollar cleanup contracts are generating new tempests in the... → Read More
Income Inequality Grew Last Year But Childhood Poverty Cut Almost Half: Census
Income inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade, but childhood poverty was cut almost in half due to expansion of the federal government's child tax credit and stimulus payments made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new survey results released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. → Read More
CEO and Central Florida Museum Part Ways Following Basquiat Raid
The Orlando Museum of Art has parted ways with its CEO in the days after the FBI raided the Florida museum and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed... → Read More
Florida Man Who Sold Monkey to Chris Brown Sentenced to Probation
The owner of an exotic animal breeding business in Florida has been sentenced to five years' probation for illegally selling a capuchin monkey to singer Chris... → Read More
Disney Government in Dark About Effect of Law Dissolving It
At the first meeting of Disney World’s private government since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a measure to dissolve it next year, officials were still confused about what the new legislation meant, even as some ripple effects were starting to be felt → Read More
Mother: Son's Death on Florida Ride Could've Been Prevented
The parents of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from a 430-foot drop-tower ride in central Florida’s tourist district have sued its owner, manufacturer and landlord, claiming they were negligent and failed to provide a safe amusement ride → Read More
Parents Sue After Death of Teen From Florida Drop-Tower Ride
The parents of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from a 430-foot drop-tower ride in central Florida’s tourist district have sued its owner, manufacturer and landlord, claiming they were negligent and failed to provide a safe amusement ride → Read More
Sensors Were Adjusted on Florida Amusement Park Ride Where Teen Fell to Death
An independent report has concluded that sensors on a Florida amusement park ride were adjusted manually to double the size of restraint openings, resulting in a 14-year-old boy not being properly secured before he slipped out and fell to his death → Read More
Census Records From 1950 Could Solve Some Family Mysteries
The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians → Read More
Disney Workers Plan Walkout to Protest ‘Don't Say Gay' Bill
Disney workers are planning walkouts during their breaks every day this week to protest CEO Bob Chapek’s slow response in publicly criticizing Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay legislation → Read More
Judge Tosses Zimmerman's Lawsuit Against Trayvon's Parents
A judge in Florida has dismissed a defamation and conspiracy lawsuit former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman had filed against the parents of Trayvon Martin, the teen he fatally shot almost a decade ago → Read More
Florida District Cancels Seminar Over Race Theory Concerns
School administrators in a central Florida county canceled a seminar for history teachers on the U.S. civil rights movement, in part, because it hadn’t been screened to make sure it was free of critical race theory → Read More
Owners to Get $42 Million for Citrus Trees Florida Destroyed
Sixteen years after their legal battle began, about 18,000 homeowners in central Florida will be paid more than $42 million collectively by Florida’s agriculture agency for destroying their citrus trees during a state effort to eradicate a harmful citrus disease → Read More
Jump in Counties Required to Provide Language Help to Voters
The number of people in counties requiring elections officials to provide voting materials in languages other than English jumped by almost a quarter over the past five years, reflecting the increasingly diverse electorate in the U.S. Figures released Wednesday show more than 24.2 million people live in places that require the language assistance under federal law → Read More
Complaint: UF Wants to Ax ‘Critical Race' From Study Title
A University of Florida professor has filed a grievance against the school, saying administrators told him he couldn’t use the worlds ‘critical’ and ‘race’ together in describing a new study concentration → Read More
Ahead of Election, Rubio Splits From Big Business in Op-Ed
In an op-ed published Monday, the Republican from Florida called corporate America “the instrument of anti-American ideologies." Rubio bemoaned what he... → Read More
‘Groveland Four' Charges Could Be Dropped 70 Years Later
A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven... → Read More
Recovered Items Will Be Returned to Surfside Condo Collapse Victims
Personal property recovered from the destroyed units of a South Florida condo building that collapsed, killing 98 people, will be divided into two categories:... → Read More
Judge Approves Plan to Sell Collapsed Surfside Condo Property to UAE Outfit
A plan to possibly sell the South Florida property where the collapse of a condo building killed 98 people to a United Arab Emirates-based developer was... → Read More