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State health officials reported 4,599 new COVID-19 cases and 55 deaths, Wednesday for a total of more than 1.9 million infections and 33,120 deaths since the start of the pandemic. So far more than 4.4 million people in Florida have received a vaccine dose, including nearly 2.5 million people who have completed the vaccine series.Governor Ron DeSantis wants to use some of the money coming to Florida through the federal COVID-19 relief bill to provide $1,000 bonuses to firefighters, law enforcement officers and other first responders. He also wants $260 million to go to supporting Florida’s struggling seaports and $50 million to be allocated to the state’s tourism marketing arm Visit Florida to help revitalize the tourism industry.The Florida Senate is set to vote today on a bill protecting businesses and healthcare providers from pandemic-related litigation. A bill cracking down on COVID-19 vaccine-related fraud passed its first Senate committee this week.New CDC guidelines recommend that nursing home residents be allowed to see visitors in person.Two pediatricians in Boca Raton have published a study after a vaccinated woman with no history of COVID-19 gave birth to a baby with COVID-19 antibodies.A new report from a national COVID-19 commission reports a dramatic rise in domestic violence amid the pandemic.

Collaboratory awards more than $1.5 million in scholarships, an increase of $300,000 over last year.

A white off-duty constable shot and killed a paraplegic black man in Fayette, Miss., in 1965. Despite new witnesses who have memories of what happened that day, there's still not enough evidence to say whether Jasper Burchfield's claim of self-defense is true.

Boil water notice rescinded for Wildcat Run area in Estero

Robert Provine, a neuroscientist and professor, joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to explain the science behind something most people do every day.

There’s an English class in one Colorado school in which students are studying one of the biggest issues on the planet.

The behavior is called a murmuration and scientists are trying to figure out how, and why, the animals do it.

Authorities says three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of a mult-million dollar Stradivarius violin stolen last week.

Archeologists digging in downtown Miami have found evidence of an ancient Native American village known as the Tequesta Village. The site is where MDM…