Archive for Thursday, June 30, 2016
Pulse Nightclub Employees Start Getting Relief for Lost Wages
Pulse nightclub employees who lost jobs and friends after the mass shooting are now getting relief for lost wages. Pulse of Orlando, the non-profit arm of the nightclub, began distributing checks Thursday to employees who have been out of work.
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
TIMELINE: What Happened Inside Pulse
Documents released paint a minute-by-minute picture of what happened inside Pulse during a mass-shooting that killed 49 people. Explore the key details from those reports.
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Restaurants Across Florida Donate Proceeds To Pulse Shooting Victims
Hundreds of restaurants across the state are donating some or all of Thursday’s proceeds to help victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Inside Beefy King, the line was nearly out the door.
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Orlando women ask dental clinic for birth control in protest of HB 1411
Nada Abou-Senna walked into the Apopka Dental Care clinic Tuesday not for a teeth whitening session or to fill in a cavity, but for birth control. She told the bewildered receptionist, “My elected representative told me that I could come here for reproductive health services.” Abou-Senna and other Florida women are walking into dental care offices across the state asking for contraceptives, Pap smears and yeast infection treatments in response to Florida House Bill 1411, which puts increased restrictions on abortion clinics and is currently under scrutiny after the U.S. Supreme Court found a similar law in Texas was unconstitutional. State and federal dollars are already prohibited from going to abortion providers, but HB 1411 blocks Planned Parenthood from receiving ...
Published in Commentaries, From the Pages of Orlando Weekly
Published in Commentaries, From the Pages of Orlando Weekly
Pulse Documents Reveal Timeline, Questions
The City of Orlando released hundreds of pages of documents relating to the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting that killed 49 club-goers. Texts, e-mails and phone records were released Tuesday, including communication from Orlando Police Chief John Mina and Mayor Buddy Dyer’s accounts.
While the dispatch records in the release paint a minute-by-minute timeline of what happened in the nightclub, there’s a call to release more information to the public.
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Published in Central Florida News, Pulse Shooting
Orange County Approves Money For Pro Bowl
Orange County Commissioners have agreed to spend $3 million to help bring the NFL’s pro bowl to Orlando. The money comes out of the county’s Tourism Development Tax and will be paid to the NFL over three years.
Published in Central Florida News
Published in Central Florida News
High-Tech Solution To Central Florida’s Traffic Woes
Congressman John Mica has a dream – that drivers could cruise down S.R. 436 from the Orlando airport to Apopka without hitting a single red light. Now the state has applied for federal dollars to make that dream come true.
Published in Central Florida News
Published in Central Florida News