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FLAGRAR COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man was arrested after lawmakers said they tried to steal nearly $1,500 in goods from Lowe and escaped to the back of a UPS truck. The sheriff’s office said the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Michael Darvatha, tried to steal items from Palm Coastrow on July 3, but left them abandoned the items and ran before deputies arrived. A while later, deputies said they received a call from someone who saw the man riding behind a UPS truck on Palm Coast Parkway. The UPS driver stopped the truck and told the man to get…

Matt Ott Tesla’s shares fell 7% on Monday as the feud between CEO Elon Musk and Trump reignited over the weekend. Musk, a former Trump top donor and ally, announced that he is forming a third party in protest of the Republican spending bill passed late last week. Musk was very critical of the bill, saying he would kill jobs and defeat the fast-growing industry. In a social media post on Sunday, Trump said the billionaire owners of SpaceX, Tesla and X have been “Rails Off” in recent weeks. Investors fear that mask companies, which receive big federal subsidies, could…

Tampa, Fla. (WFLA) – Few Canadians are looking for homes across Florida and across the United States, according to a new Redfin report. The real estate agency said the number of Canadian users looking for a US home fell 26.4% year-on-year in May. So far, April saw the biggest drop in the number of Canadians looking for a home in the US at 34.2%, the report said. Redfin said the total number of future buyers and tenants looking for a home has also decreased, but is only a small portion of that amount. The real estate agency initially reported a…

LEGOLAND Florida has introduced an upgraded US Capitol Building to the Miniland USA section of Winter Haven Theme Park. The structure, slid in time for Independence Day, features 381,000 Lego bricks. The park’s master model builder spent 1,500 hours on the project. “What you want to do with models is to make the models as accurate as possible,” Calvin Casey, master model builder at LEGOLAND Florida, said in Park Video. For the latest renovation, lighting was added under the Capitol dome and lamp posts were placed on the premises. The model continues to show off details of the Lego-style architecture,…

A St. Petersburg man scams a nationwide business out of more than $1.2 million and used some of the money that was linked to the fraudulent prosecutors, federal prosecutors said.Jared Borgesto Murray, now 41, has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, the US lawyers’ office for the Central District of Florida.Murray was represented by defense attorneys Summer Ray Goldman and Maribeth L. Wetzel of the Goldman Wetzel PLLC of St. Petersburg.”This is a particularly unique case and Murray accepted the responsibility,” Goldman told McClatchy News…

The Infinite Loop, the soundtrack to “It’s a Little World,” gets a new poem in Magic Kingdom Attraction. The sound of the gentle boat ride finale will change to July 17th, adding a poem written by Richard Sherman, who died in May 2024 at the age of 95. Richard Sherman and his brother Robert Sherman, who died in 2012, wrote the original lyrics along with several other Disney classics. The new line retains the global unification of the original “it’s a small world (after all).” He is immediately asked in the finale scene: “Mother Earth connects us in our hearts…

Indian River County, Fla. (WFLA) – The 87-year-old man from Vermont passed away Sunday after being attacked by a truck while trying to save a turtle on a Florida highway, Florida Highway Patrol said. The Troopers said the 87-year-old man was moving south in the middle lane of Interstate 95 just north of County Route 512 in Sebastian around 4:20pm, when he was crossing the southbound lane to retrieve a turtle from the road. Miami woman with a black Mazda CX-9 slowed down to avoid attacking the man, but Port St. Lucie man with a Dodge 3500 pickup truck couldn’t…

By Josh Bork WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Monday imposes a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, citing a sustained trade imbalance with two important Asian US allies. Trump provided notification of tariffs beginning August 1 by posting a letter on the true society addressed to leaders of both countries. The letter warned that both countries would not retaliate by increasing their import taxes. Otherwise, the Trump administration would increase tariffs even more. “If we decide for any reason to raise tariffs, whatever the number we choose will be added to the 25% we…

st. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital is entering a pivotal stage with its $62 million expansion project, with construction actively underway at a new facility aimed at increasing the ability to treat the region’s most complex pediatric cases. The 28,000-square-foot expansion (part of the multi-year master facility plan) broke the ground earlier this year and is expected to be completed by July 2026. The project will add state-of-the-art surgical rooms, expand emergency care, and replace the aging infrastructure that is critical to hospital day-to-day operations. “We expect to get final permits at any time,” said Justin Olsen,…

TAMPA – U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy has fired the lead prosecutor handling a federal fraud case against St. Petersburg businessman Leo Govoni, who was ostensibly retaliated for his role in the January 6 indictment of the insurrections.A June 27 memo from the Justice Department was obtained by the Tampa Bay Times and notified that U.S. attorney Aide Michael Gordon has been excluded from federal services. The memo has a boa signature from Bondi. With her actions, Gordon removes the famous Tampa incident, including $100 million embezzlement from the medical trust fund taking place in Bondy’s home community. It came…