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May 24, 2020

Florida Trend Video Picks

Fort Lauderdale gyms The Fitness District and CrossFit Increase open following strict guidelines on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Mayor Dean Trantalis would order them to remain closed later that evening.

More from the past week

Tampa Bay Rowdies resume practices

The Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer club is the first bay area professional sports team to return to the field in the wake of COVID-19.

The Keys will roll out new tourism ads this week. One campaign is called ‘Personal Space’

The Florida Keys Tourist Development Council, funded by tax dollars, will start new advertising in Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas and Charlotte. The ads are entitled "Grateful," "Welcome Back,' and "Personal Space," and include images of the outdoors.

Chalk Festival '3D Illusion Museum'

The colorful Chalk Festival that has left fanciful images on pavement in Sarasota and Venice has moved to a temporary exhibition called the Chalk Festival 3D Illusion Museum.

MacDill Air Force Base salutes healthcare workers with flyover

To honor Tampa Bay’s front-line healthcare workers in the pandemic, MacDill Air Force Base launched a KC-135 Stratotanker that flew over 12 major hospitals in the region.

Videos from the past month

Florida wildfires

Sarasota Jungle Gardens

Coronavirus closed a small Miami bike shop, but a spike in bike sales may save it

Key West salons and barber shops reopen

Miami firefighter Melissa Winchester is known as the mom of Fire Station 11

Baby manatee rescued in Florida Keys

Auto sales account for 14% of Florida's sales tax dollars

Could the 'murder hornet' come to Florida?

Pinellas beaches reopen, officials say people kept distance

Inter Miami CF host food drive

Coyotes in Florida: Better learn to live with them

Dakin Dairy Farm forced to dump milk

Key West reopens beaches and parks for residents

SeaWorld penguins tour the park in celebration of World Penguin Day.

See the empty towns and cities across America by drone

Key West mask-makers include one famous drag queen

Tiger King mural in Wynwood altered to honor healthcare workers amid coronavirus

A ridged cactus coral reproduces in a lab for first time

Derek and the Slammers visit The Fountains of Melbourne

Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control celebrates empty kennel

Help is Here

These South Florida entertainers have more to offer you than those ‘Tiger King’ binges

Surprise birthday parade provides safe way to celebrate

Manatee Sheriff's Office wishes boy a happy birthday

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Florida Business News

• New jobless claims in Florida stabilize at triple pre-pandemic level

  The number of Floridians who filed new unemployment claims last week remained almost unchanged from the previous week, suggesting some stabilization in job losses.

• NOAA calls for a busy 2020 hurricane season, with the possibility of ‘extreme activity’

  On Thursday, NOAA announced the basin is likely in for another above-average hurricane season. If it proves to be an active season, it could be the fifth consecutive above-average hurricane season.

• Communities didn't wait for lockdown orders from above

  Three quarters of the desired change in human activity to slow the virus happened without state lockdown mandates, says research by Florida Atlantic University economics professor William Luther.

• Data breach at Florida’s unemployment system exposed personal information

  A data breach at the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity exposed personal information about 98 people applying for unemployment compensation, the state agency revealed Thursday.

• Sea turtle nesting in Florida: Loggerheads, leatherbacks off to strong start

  Some wonders of nature continue happening despite the global pandemic, and sea turtle nesting season is no exception. In Florida, those turtles are off to a strong start.

Florida Trend Video Pick

Fort Lauderdale gyms reopened briefly before ordered to close

Fort Lauderdale gyms The Fitness District and CrossFit Increase open following strict guidelines on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Mayor Dean Trantalis would order them to remain closed later that evening.

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