A Florida lawmaker has introduced legislation that seeks to end a statewide practice of selling residents’ driver’s licenses and ID card information to private companies, data brokers, insurance analytics firms, and foreign-owned entities.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed two measures into law to better protect personal data online from Big Tech. One of the bills signed Thursday will make Maryland the second state to create strong limits on information collected on children, though the first in California has been halted in court.

New legislation to protect consumers data is on the move this week in the state Capitol.

Nearly 500 restaurants and other food-service businesses in Northeast Florida have received grants from the federal government, aimed at helping them stay in business during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 32209 ZIP code of Northwest Jacksonville still led the city with 14 homicides, down slightly from the same time last year (16). The median age of Jacksonvilles homicides so far this year is 28, and more than half (50) of the homicides involved victims 30 years old and younger. In other parts of the city, ZIP code 32210 recorded eight homicides and four other ZIP codes recorded six (32208, 32211, 33354, 32277). If you know a homicide victims identity and would like that person included in the database, please email webteam@wjxt.com. The community needs to be aware that we are here ... that there are other ways to deal with conflicts other than violence and or gun violence, Hannans said.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. When the number of cases of COVID-19 began rising in Florida and more than a dozen other states earlier this month, national, state and city leaders were quick to say were seeing more cases because were doing more testing. As testing capacity increases, considering confirmed new cases, testing rates and percent positivity together gives us a fuller picture of COVID-19 in a particular state or region, according to its website. Floridas positivity rate has also increased recently. Across the United States, the positivity rate of coronavirus testing is running at just under 5%, down from a peak of 21% in early April. As you get into the second week of June, you start to see some more cases pop up, DeSantis said.

Ron DeSantis banned most visits to long-term care facilities in the state, in order to protect elderly and vulnerable residents. Despite those measures, cases have been confirmed in facilities across the state, with more than 1,100 deaths connected to long-term care facilities. Once a week, the state provides a separate report on the number of deaths at long-term care facilities across the state. We are including that data for Northeast Florida facilities in a separate list below. Coronavirus deaths in northeast Florida long-term care facilities: