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Fully cover the nose and mouth and secure under the chin Fit snugly but comfortably against the side of the face Be secured with ties or ear loops and allow the guest to remain hands-free Not contain valves, mesh material or holes Disneys announcement comes on the heels of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions latest recommendation that even vaccinated Americans resume wearing masks indoors if they are in areas with high or substantial transmissibility of COVID-19.  Also on Wednes...

News-Journal editorial board Whether or not they realize it yet, elected officials in Volusia and Flagler counties have a problem. And it’s one they better figure out before they lock in their property-tax rates for the coming year. They might start by reading Clayton Park’s front-page story from Tuesday’s paper, describing the difficulty local hotels face as they seek to hire enough staff to handle post-COVID tourism. Park describes a job fair at the Daytona Beach Hilton. Once,job seeker...

The body was transported to the Brevard County Medical Examiners Office where an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.  It was the second death to occur at the beach since May when a 58-year-old Kissimmee man died during an attempt to save an 11-year-old struggling to swim in the waves.  There have been six confirmed ocean-related drownings since the beginning of the year, according to Chief Eisen Witcher of Brevard County Ocean Lifeguard Division.  Last year, th...

View Comments In a new outdoor classroom over the Indian River Lagoon, students are learning concrete ways to protect the environment around them with oysters. The program is part of Brevard Zoo’s ‘Restore Our Shores’ initiative, which distributes oysters to volunteer “oyster gardeners” with waterfront property. Students at St. Marks Episcopal Academy in Cocoa Beach hoist up cages filled with baby oysters once every one or two weeks to monitor the growth. Each of the oysters can filte...

View Comments Throughout Florida in June, COVID-19 case counts held steady, vaccination and testing rates dropped and the more contagious Delta strain of the virus spread in the Sunshine State and elsewhere. U.S. experts now warn that the emergence of the Delta variant and other strains could slow the "return to normal" many Americans hoped to see in 2021. On June 4, the Florida Department of Health, or FDOH, ceased releasing daily reports in favor of a weekly format that contained signifi...

Detectives search for suspected gunman after man shot in shoulder View Comments INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Detectives and crime scene analysts walked through a Gifford neighborhood and talked with residents in a search for evidence from a shooting reported shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday. Nearly a dozen patrol cars, crime scene vans and unmarked detective vehicles had gathered in the 3700-3800 block of 47th Street around 1 p.m.  “There was a shooting incident,” said Indian River County Sh...

Faiyaz asked the friend to keep the gun without giving a specific reason, according to information released by police spokesman Sgt. Keith Boham. Detectives and deputies with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office retrieved the firearm. No evidence suggests the friend aided Faiyaz, Boham stated. Faiyaz, who faces felony charges of culpable negligence and carrying a concealed weapon without a license, is being held at the St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bond, records show. Its unc...

View Comments Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 6 months. Click here and subscribe today.  Wickham Park reopened to the public Friday afternoon after local fire crews worked to put out a fire that began Thursday evening. The Brevard County Parks and Recreation Department released a statement Friday afternoon about 4:20 p.m. saying the Melbourne Fire Department had finished putting out the 12-acre brush fire and the park would reope...

A Mims man was arrested Thursday after the sheriffs office conducted an investigation into his involvement with a girl between the age of 12 and 16.

The fire at Wickham Park is 95 percent contained as of Friday morning, and crews are working to get it 100 percent contained.