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As the coronavirus pandemic continues, MSC Cruises is the latest cruise line to further extend cancellations, now not planning on returning to service until after July 10.

A data breach may have occurred with payroll information for more than 2,000 current and former OUC employees. A private company, PaperlessPay Corp. of Jacksonville has provided for the past eight years an online platform where OUC personnel can access pay stubs and W2 forms. OUC was informed in late February that a “data attack” on PaperlessPay’s website may have compromised OUC payroll information, including Social Security numbers, but not banking information.

Over the past 10 years, records show SeaWorld Entertainment has earned nearly $193 million in pretax profits. But it has paid less than $8 million in total income taxes, according to an Orlando Sentinel review of SeaWorld’s financial statements. That works out to a tax rate of 4 percent – over an entire decade.

On April 1, thousands of low-income Floridians living in federally subsidized apartments received a startling letter. Their rent was going up.

First, they lost their mom. Then, not even a month later, their father died — both victims of the coronavirus. Now, all that was left was for their two adult children to empty their Poinciana home.