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The launch of the epic universe lost the Orange County tourist tax collection, which reached its highest level ever in May. The month brought about about $30 million, about $1.6 million more than the previous best in May set last year. The 5.7% year-on-year revenue growth came despite the spectacular new theme park opening on May 22, just 10 days after the end of the month. “We’re looking forward to what the June figures are,” said the office, which tracks revenue generated at a 6% extra charge on hotel rooms and other short-term rental accommodation costs. “It’s going to be…
TALHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – Now that the state budget has passed, all eyes are on Gov. Ron DeSantis and his red denial pen. One of the Chopping Block bills this year was a bipartisan effort aimed at curbing political funding from government buildings in Florida. Few Canadians Looking for a Home in Florida: Red Fin Before the governor’s veto, House Bill 1445 prohibited state officials from using public office to fund campaigns, requiring that department heads and top agency executives should live in the same county as the agency headquarters, and set citizenship requirements for the board of governors and…
Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press President Donald Trump told reporters late Friday night that he had less than a month since he extended the deadline for a third ban on Tiktok, but he didn’t provide details. The details and timing of potential transactions are not clear. Tiktok did not respond immediately to the message on Monday due to comments. Emarketer analyst Jeremy Goldman reportedly has “planned” the US version of the app to comply with legal restrictions, but the platform “is at risk of losing the very personalization that drives user engagement” if it launches without the original Tiktok algorithm. In…
ORLANDO, Fla. — The city of Orlando is first seen seeing proposed upgrades designed to release new architectural renderings for major renovations to Camp World Stadium, modernize the aging venue and increase the competitiveness to host major events. The design created by the DLR group includes a complete reconstruction of the upper seat bowls on the east and west sides, as well as a newly added upper bowl section at the north end. The renovation will increase the stadium’s capacity to at least 65,000, and introduce some modern amenities aimed at improving the fan experience. Among the key features proposed…
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…