DeSantis hints he may resume daily case and death reports after CDC mistake Fla. — The Centers for Disease Control posted information saying there were more than 56,ooo new cases of COVID-19 in Florida on Saturday and Sunday. But the Florida Dept. of Health tweeted no, there were around 35-thousand on those two days– that’s...
The Sunshine State has plenty of room for people fleeing repressive states. Regarding Allan Jacob’s “Why Orthodox Jews Are Leaving Brooklyn for Florida” (Cross Country, Aug. 7): The Sunshine State has plenty of room for people fleeing repressive states, so the welcome mat is out for Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish families seeking educational choice, low taxes...
Good jobs, cheap housing and a unique school choice program have many families heading south. What would motivate a Hasidic rabbi and his followers to leave a Brooklyn enclave where they’ve lived for generations and establish a quickly growing community in Wimauma, Fla., a semi-rural area near Tampa Bay? The same reasons that have led...
A Chabad rabbi tells the story behind the pictures Record scratchFreeze frame Yup, that’s me. The Chabad rabbi dressed like Elvis reading a ketubah. If you know me, you know that I am most often seen in the uniform of a typical Chabad rabbi: button-down shirt, dress coat and a black hat. When I want...
Zoo officials said they don’t plan to pursue criminal charges against the injured man A man was injured by a jaguar at a Florida zoo after climbing over a barrier and moving too close to the animal’s enclosure, officials said. The attack occurred Wednesday at the Range of the Jaguar display at the Jacksonville Zoo...
Surfside police opened an investigation after building records potentially holding clues about the Champlain Towers South collapse appeared to go missing from the town’s rented storage facility, according to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald. Police focused their inquiry on former building official Ross Prieto, who was criticized in the wake of the collapse after...
Reza Baluchi told the coast guard he was headed 1,000 miles north in a running wheel contraption but ended up 30 miles south A Florida man startled beachgoers when he washed ashore inside a hybrid bubble-running wheel device. The man, identified by a local news channel as Reza Baluchi, washed ashore in Flagler county on...
