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Gainesville, Fla. (WFLA) – An 11-year-old boy has been accused of attempting to steal a car at the muzzle in Gainesville. Deputies for the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office were called to the Meadowbrook area Tuesday, where the victim told them that the boy had pointed a gun at them and demanded that they hand them the keys. The monster under the child’s bed turns out to be real The boy left the area after unsuccessful attempts to carjack. Another reported an attempted carjacking about an hour later. (Alachua County Sheriff’s Office) Deputies linked the case to an 11-year-old boy. In…

GameStop plans to close a significant number of stores and invest in Bitcoin as a reserve asset for the Treasury.Gamestop Corp. has closed a “slight number” of stores and started investing in Bitcoin, which was released in its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 25th.”As part of our efforts to optimize our core business, we plan to close a considerable number of unperforming stores,” the company said in its 10-K application for the fiscal year ended February 1st.GameStop had 3,203 stores worldwide as of that date. This included 2,325 stores in the US, 193…

Associated Press Business Writer Michelle ChapmanDollar Tree sells family dollars for $1 billion to a pair of private equity companies after a decade of trying to win bargain chain fit.Dollar Tree Inc. acquired family dollars for over $8 billion in 2015 after a bid war with rival dollars generals.GlobalData Managing Director Neil Saunders said after acquiring the rival chain, Dollar Tree is struggling with supply chain issues, poor store locations and other operational difficulties.”Essentially, dollar trees are much more than you can chew,” he said.Last year, Dollar Tree announced it plans to close hundreds of family dollar stores.Dollar Tree has…

Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Orange County has illegally considered immigrants in the country, with around 10,000 removals for county residents, and that numbers could rise sharply in the coming weeks.Mayor Jerry Demings relayed these summaries as part of the committee’s discussion of contracts that would allow prison staff to help federal immigration officials provide warrants and deportation orders.The mayor described it as “raw numbers” provided to the Sheriff’s Office by immigration officials, and the sheriff’s spokesman confirmed the numbers with the Orlando Sentinel, but did not guarantee them.Related: Deportation fears that Florida immigrants will scare them out of…

Jennifer Merule is taking action against the NHS after being demoted for refusing to refer to a male sex offender who racially abused her as “her.”Senior nurses refused to call convicted pedophile patients women, and were therefore investigated and disciplined by the NHS trust.After refusing to use the pronouns he likes, he agreed to call him by the woman he had chosen, but Jennifer Mehl, 40, of Croydon, was racially abused and physically threatened by a sex offender identified in legal documents as “Mr. X.”In response, Epsom and the St. Helier University Hospital Trust began an investigation into Merru, a…

Dave & Buster’s, a national chain that operates as restaurants, sports bars and arcades, accuses South Florida-based competitors of promoting their business with long-standing trademark infringement.Arcade Time USA incorporates the phrase “Eat Drink Play” into marketing, advertising and promotions that are “categorically identical” to the services offered by Dave & Buster’s, according to a lawsuit filed March 13 in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale.”Eat Drink Play” has been Dave & Buster’s Trademark since 1988, the lawsuit alleges.The lawsuit filed by restaurant chain Dave & Buster accuses the time of trademark infringement for the South Florida-based arcade, so some of…

“We do not allow the enemy to strengthen the US military and exploit American technology to threaten America’s lives,” said Commerce Secretary Lutnick.On March 25, the Trump administration added dozens of Chinese companies to the trade blacklist, limiting Beijing’s ability to access advanced US technology.The Ministry of Commerce has released a list of 80 companies and affiliates included in the Entity List, of which 50 are based in China. This measure makes it difficult to receive US goods from suppliers.”We do not allow the enemy to strengthen American troops and exploit American technology to threaten American lives,” Commerce Secretary Howard…

Associated Press Business Writer StanchionNEW YORK (AP) — The drops of Nvidia, Tesla and other former superstars fell below Wall Street on Wednesday.The S&P 500 fell 0.8% in noon trading. The Dow Jones industrial average lost an early gain of 230 points, down 37 (0.1%) just before noon. Big Tech’s weakness was Nasdaq composites heading towards a 1.5% market-leading loss.The dominant stock group known as the “magnificent Seven” is at the heart of recent sales in the US stock market, hitting an all-time high of 10% earlier this month for its first “fix” since 2023.Nvidia has dropped by 5.2% to…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – If you plan to take your family to Walt Disney World this summer, you’ll want to take advantage of the new deal the park announced Wednesday. Special deals include discounts on three-day 3-park tickets to $267 ($89 a day) and offering a 50% off child tickets for a limited time. Transactions will be available from Thursday. Discounts on kids tickets are available for visits from May 27th to September 20th. Applicable to children aged 3-9. These are Florida’s most dangerous beaches: Report Tickets for the 3-day Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom will be…

TALLAHASSEE — A proposal aimed at protecting environmentally sensitive areas from drilling Tuesday amid a legal battle over efforts to drill for oil and gas near the Apalachicola River, the state capitol and Senate panels in northwestern Florida.The House Bill (HB 1143) will go further than the Senate bill, including calling for a ban on drilling within 10 miles of the state’s three national estuary labs. Both bills create “balance tests” that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection must consider when deciding whether to issue drilling permits near waters.One of the off-limits areas is within 10 miles of the river…