Action News Jax the social media post was “her way of protesting the reopening of schools with brick and mortar education.”Reddick is one of thousands of Florida teachers returning to the classroom soon and told Action News Jax, “she does not believe it is safe for teachers to do so, and would rather see a 100% virtual start in Duval County.”[RELATED: ‘Relief was overwhelming,’ Seminole schools accommodate 93% of high-risk teachers] Her obituary was posted on the Duval Schools Pandemic Solutions Team Facebook group and started off by saying, “With profound sadness, I announce the passing of Whitney Leigh Reddick.

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Florida to Open COVID-19 Test Center at Disney World For Park Employees, Public

Florida is opening a novel coronavirus testing center on Walt Disney World property. The testing site is set to open Thursday in Osceola County at Disney's main gate office complex near Animal Kingdom, according to a site created for testing appointments.

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Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus update LIVE as Scots school forced to close after positive case

Nicola Sturgeon’s briefing was dominated by concerns about outbreaks running out of control.The FM made a direct plea on Scots to stop going to house parties. And she pleaded with everyone watching the briefing to tell everyone they know to follow health guidance.You can catch up on all the latest from Holyrood and Westminster on the Record’s politics page HERE.The data is coming through the test and protect scheme, rather than police.

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Coronavirus: New cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to Baillieston school

Bannerman High School in Ballieston.

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Colin Keane returns from coronavirus quarantine with a winner at Leopardstown races

Colin Keane was straight back to winning ways after his coronavirus quarantine in the first race at Leopardstown.

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Meet the candidates: Here’s who’s running for Sumter County sheriff

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. – Sumter County Sheriff Bill Farmer is running for reelection once again but will need to beat out one other Republican candidate in the upcoming primary election if he wants to secure his seat for another term.[2020 VOTER GUIDE: Everything you need to know ahead of Florida’s primary election]The winner will lead the more than 300 men and women who make up the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, which serves and protects a county made up of more than 132,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Eric Ryan AndersonMarine Corps veteran and former law enforcement officer Eric Ryan Anderson is looking to become Sumter County’s next sheriff.

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Meet the candidates: Here are the Republicans running for Florida’s 15th Congressional District

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Two Republicans will face off in the primary for a chance to represent Florida’s 15th Congressional District.The district encompasses the southern part of Lake County, the north part of Polk County and the north part of Hillsborough County.[2020 VOTER GUIDE: Everything you need to know ahead of Florida’s primary election]Ross Spano is the incumbent and is seeking reelection, but a Lakeland commissioner is also vying for the seat.Ross SpanoSpano was sworn into office in January 2019. He is part of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Small Business Committee.

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Meet the candidates: Here are the Republicans running for US House District 10

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – There are two Republican candidates for the U.S. House District 10 congressional seat on the Florida primary ballot in August.The winner will go on to face Democratic incumbent Rep.

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Meet the candidates: Here are the Democrats running for US House District 15

[2020 VOTER GUIDE: Everything you need to know ahead of Florida’s primary election]Florida’s 15th congressional district covers the northern parts of Polk and Hillsborough counties and the southernmost part of Lake. Republican U.S.

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Meet the candidates: Here are the Republicans running for US House District 8

[2020 VOTER GUIDE: Everything you need to know ahead of Florida’s primary election]For the most part, the district has been represented by a Republican. Former Rep.

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Meet the candidates: Here’s who’s running for Orange County property appraiser

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Three Democrats are running in the primary election seeking to be Orange County’s property appraiser.The three people vying for office are State Rep. Amy Mercado, businessman Khalid Muneer and incumbent appraiser Rick Singh.

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Slow down, stop the spread: Florida officers issuing masks instead of speeding tickets

FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. – Some drivers stopped for speeding along a stretch of A1A in Flagler County will be given something instead of a ticket.The Flagler Beach Police Department is teaming up with the Department of Health for a new safety campaign called “Masks for Motorists.”Officers will be patrolling an area of A1A that recently saw a change in the posted speed limit.When a driver is stopped, police say instead of receiving a ticket, they will be given a written warning and a pack of cloth face masks.Police say the goal of the campaign is to educate drivers on the new speed limits while also providing support during the pandemic.The campaign runs through Aug.

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Trooper Steve breaks down bicycle safety in Seminole County

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – News 6 traffic safety expert Trooper Steve Montiero answers viewer questions about the rules of the road every week, helping Orlando-area residents become better drivers by being better educated.[ASK TROOPER STEVE: Send safety question to Trooper Steve]The most recent question asks: Can you specifically address bicycle safety along the trail on Rinehart Road in Seminole County?Along the east shoulder of Rinehart Road north of Lake Mary Boulevard, you’ll find a very well taken care of bike trail. Hundreds of bicyclists and pedestrians travel along this trail each and every day.

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Meet the candidates: Here’s who’s running for Orange-Osceola state attorney

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – No matter the results of the election, residents in Orange and Osceola counties are guaranteed to have a new state attorney serving them starting next year.Four Democrats have qualified to run for the race and fill the role that will be vacated by current Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala.Whoever among the four Democrats wins in the August primary will then face off against a no party affiliate candidate, Jose Torroella, in November.[2020 VOTER GUIDE: Everything you need to know ahead of Florida’s primary election]Job duties for the office include deciding whether criminal charges are appropriate at the conclusion of a case, enacting policy reform that can change the way the court system operates -- for

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Scots primary school forced to close after staff member tests positive for Covid-19

coronavirus. The decision was made to shut Peterhead Central School on Wednesday night, August 12, as several employees went into precautionary self-isolation.

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Large social gatherings causing concern for health officials in BC

It comes as health officials try a new approach to reach out to young people after seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases. Jordan Armstrong reports.

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George, Leonard lead Clippers past Nuggets for No. 2 seed

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Paul George scored 27 points, Kawhi Leonard had 26 and the Los Angeles Clippers wrapped up the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs with a 124-111 victory over the third-seeded Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night. The Clippers will face seventh-seeded Dallas when the playoffs get going next week.

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Health experts share their thoughts on students returning to class in Orange County

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The medical advisory committee tasked to guide the Orange County school board on how to safely reopen schools for in-person instruction met online Wednesday evening. On Tuesday, the board voted to expand the scope of the 11 member committee to include recommendations from top health experts on when to open or close the district.

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Man arrested for shooting and killing his girlfriend during sexual encounter in Ormond Beach, deputies say

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Volusia County deputies said the boyfriend of an Ormond Beach woman who was killed in a shooting on June 27 was arrested for his part in a deadly sexual encounter.Winter Richardson, 22, is facing a manslaughter charge.Deputies said Richardson shot Ashleigh Murphy during a consensual sexual encounter in the home they shared.Investigators said Richardson told deputies Murphy indicated she wanted him to a point a revolver at her.The Sheriff’s Office said Richardson pulled the trigger twice, the second time the revolver fired a bullet into Murphy’s shoulder and back.Detectives said her death was caused by her boyfriend’s negligence for failure to checking the gun before pointing it and pulling the trigger at Murphy.He is

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Raptors rally past Sixers to give Griffin a coaching win

Photo by Ashley Landis-Pool/Getty Images) LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Stanley Johnson scored the tiebreaking basket in the lane with 4.9 seconds remaining, giving the Toronto Raptors a 125-121 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday that made a winner of Adrian Griffin.Raptors coach Nick Nurse let his assistant coach run the team and they responded with a late run from the bottom of their bench, long after Philadelphia's Joel Embiid had ended his night, to improve to 6-1 in the restart.“Tomorrow back to reality, but it was an awesome feeling,” Griffin said.Kyle Lowry and Chris Boucher each scored 19 points for the Raptors.

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UCF reports 11 more cases of COVID-19

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The University of Central Florida reported 11 more cases of COVID-19 from the first weekend of students moving into on-campus housing.Associate Vice President of UCF Student Health Services Dr. Michael Deichen said students were required to take a test upon arrival.UCF said 837 tests were administered and from those two days, 11 tests came back positive.

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What In-home Social Service Providers and Clients Need to Know about COVID-19

certain underlying medical conditions are at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.In-home social service providers include, but are not limited to, caregivers or aides, teachers or tutors, social workers, and resettlement agency personnel who visit the homes of their clients. They provide a wide variety of home and community-based services, including personal care, activities of daily living, and more.

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Vancouver teacher looks to outdoor learning amid coronavirus pandemic

coronavirus pandemic.“My hope and my vision as that as many students as can be outside for as much of the time as possible,” said Meagan Braun, who teaches lower primary grades in the Vancouver school district.“We live in a temperate climate. There’s no bad weather, there’s just bad gear.” B.C.

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NDP calls for direction on class sizes, masks as Saskatchewan prepares for back to school

back to school, the NDP is renewing calls for more direction on how to keep teachers and students safe amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.At a virtual press conference Wednesday, the opposition’s education critic Carla Beck said the party wants to see class sizes addressed, more direction on wearing masks, and calling for the Human Services Committee to address the current Safe Schools Plan.She says the province is pushing decisions onto school board divisions and that it’s frustrating these things have not been decided yet. Some school divisions have made masks mandatory.

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Vancouver teacher plans all day outdoor education for kids this fall

When B.C. students return to school in September, one Vancouver elementary teacher is planning to take the classroom outside as much as possible. Grace Ke explains.

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Grandparent caregivers concerned about return to school

Families with grandparents who act as primary caregivers are concerned a full return to school for B.C. kids this September could see their small bubbles expand and put them more at risk of getting sick. Richard Zussman reports.

Alberta teachers urged to get tested for COVID-19 ahead of school reopenings

Before school returns in a few weeks, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health is recommending all teaching and education staff get tested for COVID-19. Breanna Karstens-Smith has more from Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s August 12 update.

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COVID-19 testing site set to open at Disney World

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – A COVID-19 testing site is opening at the Maingate Complex at Walt Disney World to offer free testing to employees and their family members as well as the community at large.Registration is available at DoINeedaCOVIDTest.com, which is operated by eTrueNoth, the lab conducting the testing at the state-run site.The site at 3010 Maingate Lane lists its operating hours from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Saskatchewan school divisions mandate masks, but parents say more needs to be done

back to class, but some are still concerned that the COVID-19 safety measures in place aren’t enough.“I’m feeling nervous,” said Esmee Wasylynka, an upcoming Grade 12 student at Dr.

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Calls for Alberta Education to delay student re-entry to school this fall

In three weeks, hundreds of thousands of Alberta kids will be filing back into classrooms to start the 2020 school year.

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2 doctors, father and son, die weeks apart after treating COVID-19 patients in Florida

LOS ANGELES - After working to save lives amid the COVID-19 pandemic, two Florida doctors — a father and son — died weeks apart after contracting the novel coronavirus themselves.Charlie Vallejo, 26, said his father Carlos Vallejo and grandfather Jorge Vallejo were both admitted to the ICU on Father’s Day.The 89-year-old Jorge died from COVID-19 six days after being admitted on June 1. Jorge’s son Carlos, 57, spent 42 days in the ICU before passing from the virus on Aug.

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Turner helps Indiana hold off Harden rally to beat Rockets

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Myles Turner had 18 points, reserve Edmond Sumner added a season-high 17 and Indiana held off a late rally by Houston and James Harden to break a five-game losing streak to the Rockets, 108-104 on Wednesday.It looked as if the Pacers had locked up the win when they went up 104-90 with 5:05 remaining. That's when Harden got Houston going, cutting it to 106-104 on with a driving basket with 27 seconds to go.

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Coronavirus: Some U.S. schools scale back reopening plans amid COVID-19 outbreaks

As schools across the nation struggle to finalize reopening plans, some school districts, in places like New Jersey and Georgia, have scaled back their plans and switched to online learning amid localized outbreaks.

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Winter Park leaders mull over helping finance new economic recovery task force

WINTER PARK, Fla. – During a Winter Park City Council meeting Wednesday, Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Betsy Gardner Eckbert proposed forming a new economic recovery task force as the pandemic drags on for the foreseeable future.“This is a call to action,” Gardner Eckbert said. “What I thought was going to be a two week, two-month crisis, is probably going to be a two-year crisis for us.” A study recently completed on behalf of the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce shows an estimated $491 million in lost revenue from business including those specializing in finance, health and education, retail and restaurants, and construction.

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Quebec parents scrambling to figure out how to safely send their children back to school

Swift reaction from Quebec parents, students to province’s back-to-school plan But Constantine told Global News she’s having trouble getting a doctor to sign off on a medical exemption. Her teenage daughters are set to go back to school, but she’s also a caregiver to her mother, “who is high risk for COVID-19 because she has congestive heart failure.”She doesn’t want the girls to return to school because she said she’s worried they could bring the virus home to their grandmother.

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Okanagan-Skaha school district plans return to classes amid coronavirus pandemic

Ministry of Education’s directive to organize staff, teachers and students into learning groups, or cohorts. Masks to play ‘significant role’ in B.C.

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Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party criticizes back-to-school plan during London visit

Ontario elementary students to return to class full-time, hybrid learning for most high schoolers “We want our daughters back in a classroom setting, but we want them to be safe,” he said.The main concern, Del Duca said, is class sizes and there not being enough room for kids to safely physically distance.

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Parents scrambling to figure out how to safely send their children back to school

One Montreal-area mother is wondering how she’ll be able to keep her elderly mother safe while sending her daughters back to school. Natalie Constantine’s elderly mother lives with her and her family.

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Coronavirus: Parents create mock classroom to protest Ontario’s back-to-school plan

With just weeks to go before students return to school, parents are expressing their concern in the form of a makeshift classroom outside Queen’s Park.

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Antetokounmpo suspended for Bucks' finale over headbutt

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Giannis Antetokounmpo has been suspended for Milwaukee’s final game of the regular season, handed a one-game penalty Wednesday for headbutting Washington’s Moe Wagner.It’s unknown if Antetokounmpo would have played in Thursday’s game against Memphis anyway, given that the Bucks have already secured the No. 1 overall seed in the NBA playoffs that start next week.Antetokounmpo will be eligible for Game 1 of the Bucks’ first-round series against Brooklyn, which will almost certainly be played Monday or Tuesday at Walt Disney World.The incident happened Tuesday night, when Wagner took a charge against Antetokounmpo in the second quarter.

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How a medical advisory committee will advise Orange County schools on safe reopening

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Medical Advisory Committee for the Orange County Public Schools will meet Wednesday evening for the second time ready to discuss how to safely reopening schools during a global pandemic. According to a list from school district officials, the Medial Advisory Committee is made up of 11 doctors, nurses and hospital leaders representing Orlando Health, AdventHealth, Nemours and private practices. It was formed on July 30 to specifically assist with COVID-19 issues that the district faces. “This committee will advise the School Board regarding best practices for operating our schools safely.

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Sheriff: Florida woman killed by ex during daughter’s online class

INDIANTOWN, Fla. – A Florida man stormed into a house and fatally shot his ex-girlfriend as her 10-year-old daughter took an online class, with the girl's teacher and other students hearing part of the commotion before the slaying, authorities said.The school year's first day of instruction had just begun when a Warfield Elementary School teacher heard some kind of domestic disturbance from the girl's video chat Tuesday morning, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said during a news conference.The teacher muted the girl's audio but then saw the girl cover her ears before the screen went blank; investigators later said the computer had been struck by a bullet.

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‘I’m surprised:’ Marion County residents react after sheriff tells deputies not to wear masks

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Upon entering Marion County’s Sheriff’s Office, visitors will notice a new sign on the door, saying anyone entering the facility must remove their mask. In fact, all employees and deputies are told not to wear masks while on the job.“It doesn’t bother me, there must’ve been some thought put into that decision, said Tan Johnson, who showed up to the sheriff’s office Wednesday.Others like Yezie Pinto and her husband, showed up with a mask on.“I’m surprised,” Pinto said.

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‘He did not deserve to be shot in the back:’ Attorneys demand answers in fatal deputy-involved shooting outside Florida Mall

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The attorneys representing the mother of a man who was shot and killed by an Orange County sheriff's deputy last week said they still haven't seen the body camera video of the shooting.According to an arrest affidavit, Agent James Montiel opened fire on Salaythis Melvin, 22, on Friday outside the Florida Mall.

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Coronavirus: Trump continues push to get kids back to school despite surge in cases

U.S. President Donald Trump met with several parents and health officials on Wednesday as he continues his push to get children back in schools despite a recent surge in cases.

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Meet the candidates: Here’s who’s running for Orange County sheriff

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Four Democrats are looking to unseat current Orange County Sheriff John Mina in the upcoming primary election.Made up of more than 2,500 employees, including 1,600 sworn officers, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office is the largest law enforcement agency in Central Florida. The agency is responsible for the safety of more than 1.2 million residents and more than 72 million tourists that visit Orange County each year, according to its Facebook page.John MinaMina became the 29th elected sheriff of Orange County in November 2018, when he won a special election to replace former Sheriff Jerry Demings after Demings was elected Orange County Mayor.

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A look inside Osceola County classrooms ready to welcome students amid COVID-19

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Desks are spaced 4 feet apart and are all facing the same direction at Osceola County Public Schools.Superintendent Dr.

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Meet the candidates: Here are the Republicans running for Florida’s 3rd Congressional District

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Ten Republicans and three Democrats are running for this seat that U.S. Rep.

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