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For years, Universal’s Adventure Islands was a newborn baby in the Orlando Theme Parks family. It spent a quarter century as the latest addition, opening with a surge in tail ending in the ’80s and ’90s, creating Epcot, Universal Studios, Disney MGM Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom. But Ioa wasn’t just slipping as the new kid on the Brock, in a flashy Marvel ride dedicated to Spider-Man and the incredible Hulk. It may have attracted attention and gained a big head in Harry Potter’s first wizard world. That led to a self-improvement project, transforming the original duel dragon roller coaster…

The federal government gave Florida more than $4 billion last year, recovering from one of the most devastating hurricane seasons we’ve seen in a century. If President Donald Trump eliminates federal emergency management agencies after this hurricane season, the state could be liable for the full cost of recovering the hurricane. The change could be devastating in Florida, where Hurricanes Helen and Milton cost the state more than $23 billion, experts say.”We spend money on most municipalities, and perhaps even states, to respond and recover,” said Professor Latona Dougherty of the University of South Florida. “You can see a lot…

The United States is rare in the West. Because it allows pharmaceutical advertising. But new efforts aim to stop it. Recently, a bill was introduced in Congress, banning drug makers from promoting their products using direct consumer advertising, from television to social media. Advertising for prescription drugs directly and indirectly employs many people. According to ISPOT data analyzed by the Wall Street Journal, it was hiring advertising workers every year, and spent on advertising workers, with prescription drugs throughout the evening news programme on ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and NBC. Supporters of the bill say the ads increase…

Sunrise, Fla. — The Florida Panthers today announced the club’s seven-game preseason schedule for 2025-26. The Panthers will be holding their preseason on September 21 at 3pm ET and 7pm ET in a double-header matchup with the Nashville Predators at Bridesgayton Arena. The Cats will begin their preseason game set with the Carolina Hurricanes in a contest in Raleigh at 6pm ET on September 24th, and the Hurricane will be held at Amerant Bank Arena on September 29th at 6pm ET. Florida will face competing rivals Tampa Bay Lightning to close the 2025-26 preseason at Tampa Bay, Amare Arena on…

The laser navigator collided with the moon earlier this month, dooming a Japanese company’s lunar landing craft. ISPACE officials announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. Crush Landing was iSpace’s second in two years. This time, the company’s lander, named Resilience, was heading north north of the moon in Mare Frigoris or Sea of ​​Clow. NASA’s Moon Reconnaissance Orbiter relayed photos of the crash site where Resilience and its mini-rover became wreckage last week. Company officials condemned the accident with Lander’s laser rangefinder, saying it was slow to kick in and properly measure the spacecraft’s distance to the moon. Resilience…

With certain brands of Florida crime capers, greedy creeping tends to disappear in the Everglades. There, justice is left to the whims of the Hungry Swamp Beast.Carl Heierzen’s “skinny dip” comes to mind. In it, Barry wrote: “The Everglades, two million acres of wild wetlands, have been forever sanctuaries and hideaways for all sorts of exemptions from hermits, moonshiners, drug runners, eccentrics, paramilitary wacko, madmen, cults, cults, criminals, society, or law or both.It’s an explosion of books that include Dora the Explorer costumes, Smaldi politicians and secret treasures. Most titles in this tropical environment are riots and are ingrained in…

After a series of delays from the weather to rocket engines and leaks of the International Space Station, NASA cleared the way SpaceX fires an Axiom Space Ax-4 crew on Space Coast. The Falcon 9 rocket topped with a new Crew Dragon capsule is about to lift it with four members of the private mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launchpad 39-A at 2:31am Wednesday. The first phase booster is making its second flight, aiming for a recovery landing in landing zone 1 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The AX-4 crew is led by Commander Peggy Whitson, a former…

By Chris Rugaber of AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve continues to wait and see how the economy evolves before deciding whether to cut key interest rates, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that it is directly at odds with President Donald Trump’s demand for immediate cuts. “For the time being, we are well positioned to wait to learn more about possible economic courses before considering adjusting our policy attitude,” Powell said in a prepared statement to be offered Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee. Powell faces two days of tough grilling at Capitol Hill. Powell is…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida employees will get an extra day on the July 4th holiday, Gov. Ron Desantis announced Monday. The governor said the state office will be closed on Thursday, July 3rd, saying “as Florida celebrates America’s 249th Independence Day weekend and as Florida celebrates America’s 250th anniversary.” The state office will also close on July 4th. List: Where to watch the July 4th fireworks in Tampa Bay “In anticipation of the upcoming semi-calcentennial celebrations in America in 2026, I have long been awarding state employees to celebrate this weekend,” DeSantis said. “We hope that our state employees…

TAMPA – Ronnie Tremel Walker killed 14-year-old Nilexia Alexander on dark dead-end Tampa Street three years ago, the ju judges decided Tuesday.A panel of five men and seven women deliberated about two hours before Walker, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder, and refused to defence arguments that his accomplice was the one who shot the girl.Walker was also found guilty of tampeThe ju umpire refused to defence arguing that Walker’s friend, Robert Creed, who was in the car on the night of the shooting, may have shot the girl. Creed was the only witness to acknowledging it was a…