Monday, December 14, 2020 by Danielle Prieur (WMFE)
Photo: Star Motel
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Residents of the Star Motel have started to paint murals on the property in Kissimmee, as a protest of Osceola County boarding it up. The property was fenced in after the county found it unsafe to live there.
Photo: Danielle Prieur
About ten panels have been painted over with phrases like “Do our lives matter?” and “We are here, We have rights.”
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020 by Matthew Peddie (WMFE)
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Matthew Peddie, WMFE
Florida added 9,442 new coronavirus cases and 89 new deaths Tuesday. The state has reported 1,083,362 coronavirus infections since March. Some 19,716 people have died from COVID-19.
The Agency for Health Care Administration reported 4,559 hospitalizations for a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.
The positivity rate for
new cases among Florida residents was 86.4%. The percentage of Florida residents who tested positive for coronavirus is 10.83%.