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June 26, 2020 By: Staff Report ORLANDO Fla. – The National Basketball Association released its schedule for the restart of the 2019-20 regular season tonight and announced the Orlando Magic will play the first of their eight “seeding games” on Friday, July 31 against the…
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June 26, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMAP Fla.- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave an update on COVID-19 today at a press confernence. Florida set a new one-day high Friday with 8,942 new COVID-19 cases, according to the Florida Department of Health. There are now 122,960 COVID-19 cases…
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June 26, 2020 By: Jim Frankowiak TAMPA FLORIDA – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) is now accepting applications for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) through an online portal, expanding the options available to producers to apply for this program,…
Read More USDA Offers Online Options for Farmers/Ranchers to Apply for Coronavirus Food Assistance Program
June 26, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA Fla. – Effective immediately, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation is suspending on premises consumption of alcohol at bars statewide. Effective immediately, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation is suspending on premises consumption of alcohol at…
Read More No Beer At The Bar – Florida Suspends Drinking with COVID-19 Spike
June 26, 2020 Tallahassee, Fla. — Thursday, in response to skyrocketing COVID-19 cases, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, an independently-elected member of the Florida Cabinet, called on the Governor to issue a statewide mask order: “With 31,299 new cases in the past week alone, Florida has emerged as…
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June 26, 2020 By: Deborah Childress TAMPA Fla. – UPDATE, these teens have been removed from HCSO database. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department seeks the publics’ help in locating missing teens in the Tampa area. Trinity Williams, 15 years old is missing from her Tampa…
Read More Have You Seen Them? HSCO Seeks Runaway Missing Teens
June 26, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA Fla. – We aren’t there yet, but we are a lot closer to a baseball season than we once were. After owners and players tried to pull themselves to pieces despite a global pandemic, baseball – yes, baseball…
Read More Tampa Bay Rays Have a Real Shot
June 26, 2020 By: Press Release CLEARWATER Fla. – Synapse Florida, the leading online and offline Innovation Hub in the Tampa Bay area, has announced a marketing partnership with Sunshine State Hackathon, a Hackathon focused on coming up with solutions for the Covid-19 Crisis. The…
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June 25, 2020 By: Staff Report WASHINGTON D.C. – US Health officials said on a call with the media today, they estimate 20 million U.S. Citizens have had the COVID-19 virus. This estimate is based on CDC studies of blood samples collected nationwide and many…
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June 25, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA Fla.- A new petition has surfaced on Change.org, calling on Tampa’s Mayor Jane Castor to resign. The petition organizer, Chris Ingram said, “Mayor Castor has proven herself to be inept and incompetent to serve and do the right…
Read More Petition for the Resignation of Tampa Mayor Castor Circulating