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A notice to boil drinking water has been imposed across the city for all City of Cape Coral Water Utility customers, impacting 190,000 people according to local radio station WGCU. City authorities said residents should either use bottled water or boil their water for more than a minute to kill any E. coli present before it is consumed. On Monday night, officials said they had flushed suspect plants and increased chlorine usage in a bid to kill the infection....

According to News 4 Jax, Waldron wasn’t “necessarily opposed” to the face mask requirement, but wanted county administrators to clarify the types of masks required and whether the county could provide sufficient supplies for employees and citizens entering government buildings. In a Facebook post written by his daughter, she said he was in the “most critical of conditions,” adding that because of “complications from the virus, he went into septic shock and many organs are struggling....

Kathryn and Travis Wilson’s son was born on February 25, 2020, and died three days later, according to the lawsuit. The hospital told the Wilsons it moved the body to perform an autopsy but lost it by March 11, at which time it had “exclusive custody and control of his body,” the lawsuit alleges. The young boy’s body is still missing, according to the lawsuit. The Wilsons sued the hospital in a Hillsborough County court on July 9, court documents show....

Carlos Lago and his family have spent a lot of time enjoying the pool at their home in Country Walk in Miami-Dade County amid the coronavirus lockdown—but on Friday, the cloudy weather had kept him and his children inside, WPLG reported. They heard a sound that Lago said sounded like “a big explosion” that morning and then he discovered the damage to his yard. But it wasn’t until he watched the surveillance footage that he realized exactly what had happened....

Although not as severe as Texas’ controversial abortion law, the new bills filed by Senator Kelli Stargel and Representative Erin Grall on the first day of the state’s legislative session outlaw abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The legislation already has strong supporters in House Speaker Chris Sprowls and Governor Ron DeSantis. There is one key concession that aligns the legislation more closely with Mississippi’s proposed law. Rape and incest are not listed as exceptions to any procedures, but abortions will be allowed past the 15-week deadline if the pregnancy threatens the mother’s life....

Ladapo was set to meet state Senator Tina Polsky, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August, last week. When he arrived, however, Ladapo was not wearing a mask—and when Polsky asked him to put one on due to her diagnosis, he instead offered to go outside, Florida Politics reported. “‘I don’t want to go outside,’” Polsky recalled saying to him. “‘I want you to sit in my office and talk to you....

The MLB season was due to get underway on March 26 but was suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Over the last few weeks, however, rumors baseball could make a return as early next month have intensified. According to CBS Sports, one of the proposed plans would involve playing all regular-season games across hubs in Florida, Texas and Arizona—earlier this month ESPN had reported the latter could host all 30 franchises playing games at Chase Field, the home of Arizona Diamondbacks, in Phoenix and at other ballparks in the Phoenix area....

“These steps will be deliberate,” DeSantis said. “They will not be like turning off a switch. But each step will bring us closer to that light at the end of the tunnel.” Part of the first phase of reopening will allow most areas to open both restaurants and stores at a capacity rate of 25 percent. Restaurants will be able to use outdoor seating areas as long as social distancing is used....

Hillsborough County sheriff, Chad Chronister, said that Wayne Lee Padgett, 31, had threatened to “shoot up” the store in Gibsonton and was “intrigued” by the shootings that had taken place that weekend in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, according to WTSP. Chronister said Padgett’s mother worked at that Walmart and in a statement on the police force’s Facebook page described how officers “arrived within moments and immediately gained control of the chaotic scene, evacuating large numbers of patrons while simultaneously and without hesitation, searching for the shooter....

Angel Esteban Hernandezcinto, 31, was arrested in the early morning hours of Thursday after police responded to security guard Yamil Egipciaco’s call complaining that a man was stealing toilet paper from the hotel. At 1:30 a.m., the guard said he was on regular patrols when he noticed suspicious activity from Hernandezcinto, according to an arrest affidavit. “Yamil saw Angel pushing a trash can toward his Honda van,” the arresting officer wrote in the affidavit....

John Wayne Parker Jr., 32, was arrested in December on an aggravated assault charge in Palatka, Florida. He was sentenced to wear an ankle monitor so that authorities could keep track of his movements. Then Parker, unable to keep up with the monitor’s monthly fees, turned to petty crime. The pattern of thefts began on January 20. Parker allegedly first burglarized a local store for $3,000 worth of cigarettes to sell by smashing the front window of a local Hitchcock’s Market....

Paul Fortin, 67, was issued a citation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) over the incident in May at a pond in Catriona Drive, Daytona Beach. But he was arrested by police and taken to Volusia County Jail after refusing to accept the citation and resisting an officer without violence. Fortin, who says he is a disabled veteran, told News 6 that he regularly fed Hank the alligator....

Everett Little, 20, is charged with first-degree arson, using an incendiary device (a firebomb) and criminal mischief in connection with the October 10 incident, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Surveillance footage captured a suspect pouring gasoline into bottles from a car trunk before throwing them at the Planned Parenthood facility, The News-Press reported. The second bottle thrown set the facility alight. It is located at 6418 Commerce Park Drive in Fort Myers....

Larkin, 33, pleaded guilty to knowingly and intentionally transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce, which is a felony in Miami-Dade County, on Thursday. The person who turned Larkin in said they had been in contact since 2017, and had exchanged photos and phone calls, as well as social media messages. Though the person repeatedly urged him not to come to Miami-Dade, Larkin took a train from DeLand, where he was living, to Miami to meet the plaintiff on August 24 of this year....

Courtney Ayers and Tabias Wimby, from Atlanta, Georgia, refused to let a man from Alabama out of their car on July 19, Florida’s Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Ayers, 39, and Wimby, 23, drove the 45-year-old victim to several banks and made him attempt to cash fraudulent checks, the force stated. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office did not release the full name of the individual, who is from the city of Helena, a suburb of Birmingham, but identified him as “Parks” in a Facebook post....

He recorded it in his next game, Friday against the Dallas Stars. The best part? It took him all of about four minutes. RELATED: Connor McDavid records two hat tricks in just one week Acciari’s first goal came 7:26 into the second period. With Florida already leading 4-1, Acciari picked up a pass from Vincent Trocheck and one-timed it past Stars goalie Ben Bishop from the slot. He struck again just 32 seconds later, finishing off a tic-tac-toe passing play from Trocheck and Jonathan Huberdeau....

Obviously, the NHL franchise isn’t in the big game. But it shares a name with the the football team from Carolina. A graphic from the Canadian television station Le Téléjournal accidentally used the wrong logo when hyping the matchup in a news segment. MORE: What a dream Super Bowl looks like | Death of the Super Bowl logo The Canadian sports website Le Sportnographe first noticed the error. This isn’t even the first logo gaffe for the Super Bowl....

On July 5, an Advanced Placement exam was given to select students at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach. But instead of the current test, most students were given last year’s exam. Mainland High School Principal Cheryl Salerno, who administered the exam, confirmed she handed out only 78 real exams out of 414 total. Initially, Salerno claimed most of the students simply weren’t ready for the exam, even after taking the school’s semester-long AP Capstone Seminar....

Aerial video footage recorded and shared to Twitter by local news station WFLA showed the group, which consisted of about two dozen people dressed in workout apparel, waving American flags and holding signs that read “Freedom for Fear,” “We Are Amped” and “DeSantis We Won’t Stand 4 This.” At one point, more than half of those involved in the gathering performed simultaneous pushups and squats on the sidewalk. Florida’s fitness facilities have been closed for more than five weeks since Governor Ron DeSantis issued the state’s stay-at-home initiative on April 1....

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the number of daily new cases the state is reporting has tripled over the last week or so. The CDC reported that Florida saw 6,846 new cases on Wednesday, December 15. On December 7, the state reported just over 1,900 new cases, and over the last few days new case numbers had generally hovered between two and three thousand....