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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Artemis I is ready to fly but not without some risk. Hurricane Nicole last week lashed NASA’s $4.1 billion Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with 100 mph gusts, but the countdown clock is still on for a launch in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Layoffs and a hiring freeze are coming within the Walt Disney Co. soon, according to a memo from Disney CEO Bob Chapek, but it is unclear if Walt Disney World will be affected by the cutbacks.

NEW ORLEANS — UCF quarterback John Rhys Plumlee returned to the field Saturday as the No. 22 Knights won, 38-31, over No. 17 Tulane at Yulman Stadium.

ORLANDO, Fla. — No Paolo Banchero, no problem for the Orlando Magic.

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. — Beach erosion from Hurricane Nicole toppled swimming pools, walls, rooms, staircases and backyards down to the beach, with some of the wreckage washed into the ocean, along a normally scenic stretch of beachfront Wilbur-By-The-Sea, a community wedged between Daytona Beach Shores and Ponce Inlet.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With a landslide victory and a Republican supermajority in the Legislature, Gov. Ron DeSantis is guaranteed the ability to continue his conservative culture wars agenda against the “woke ideology’' that helped earn him a second term.

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA officials on Friday inspected the Artemis I rocket and spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center after Hurricane Nicole and are OK to go for Wednesday’s early-morning launch attempt.

Streamers like Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+ and more are getting into the holiday spirit early this season, with merry and bright new movies releasing now through the end of the year.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Joel Greenberg to less than the mandatory 12-year prison sentence he faces for sex trafficking and other charges, citing the former Seminole County tax collector’s help in building cases against some of his former associates.