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The penalties were levied after a judge ruled that the governor's executive order blocking mask mandates in schools was unconstitutional. Meantime, two more districts enacted mandates without parental opt-outs. -
The league informed teams they could potentially forfeit a game because of a COVID-19 outbreak among nonvaccinated players, and players on both teams wouldn’t get paid for that week. -
CEO Michael Bayley wrote on social media that the ship returned Tuesday to PortMiami after testing CDC safety and health protocols put in place due to the COVID pandemic. -
Jill Biden is scheduled to be at the Tampa Bay Lightning's AdventHealth Shots on Ice event at Amalie Arena, one of two Florida visits on Thursday. She'll also be in Kissimmee. -
The Freedom of the Seas pulled away from PortMiami about 7 p.m. Sunday with a fully vaccinated crew and about 600 volunteer passengers. -
Royal Caribbean says its Celebrity Millennium, sailing out of St. Marteen, had two passengers come up positive for COVID while undergoing the required end-of-cruise testing. -
Health authorities are trying to determine whether a heart inflammation could be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. -
During the hearing, the judge chided the state for issuing a comment last week that mediation efforts had reached an “impasse” when they had not. -
The approval is a welcome milestone for the cruise industry, which has been paralyzed in the U.S. since March 2020 after COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths on several ships. -
Mediators are typically summoned in the hopes of coaxing both sides into settling their differences outside the court.
