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Osceola County Sheriff’s Office detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a robbery suspect, who grabbed a woman’s purse at a local shopping plaza.
By Tiffanie Reynolds Staff Writer With the central corridor of the proposed East Osceola Parkway Extension selected, the Planned Development and Environment study team went back to the public July 10 to narrow the alternatives for the east and west ends of the project.
Kissimmee police officers arrested an employee of the Osceola Boys and Girls club Thursday night after it was reported that the man inappropriately touched an 11-year-old girl at the club.
By Ken Jackson Staff Writer The Osceola County Commission voted Monday to give the county manager and his staff approval to start negotiations with a private firm to provide healthcare services to inmates at the Osceola County Jail.
By Rick Pedone Sports Editor Longtime observers say that there has never been a tennis player like Trevor Foshey in Osceola County. A two-time high school state tournament qualifier, Foshey is listed among the top 60 in his class nationally by the Tennis Recruiting Network and he is ranked among the top five Boys 18s in the USTA Florida rankings. “It’s been going pretty well,” Foshey, from St. Cloud, said.
J. Daniel Pearson Under the Bobber Like golfers, there are all kinds of fishermen and women. You have your recreational fisherman, who might get out a couple of times a year. Then you have the diehards, the ones who spend every available moment on the water. And then you have the elite of the elite, the professionals – those who make their living on the water as either professional guides
Whitley 2nd by ounces By J.D. Pearson For the News-Gazette In most sports, ties are broken on the field. Soccer has overtime and penalty kicks, wrestling has a sudden death overtime period and baseball has extra innings. But high school weightlifting is different. If you are tied at the end of your three lifts in the bench press and clean and jerk, the tie is broken by the body weight
By Peter Covino A&E Editor If you love reality shows on TV, the place to be in just two weeks is the sixth annual Hearts of Reality event at Celebration. Winners and contestants from hit shows such as Amazing Race, Survivor, Big Brother and The Apprentice, some 140 reality stars in all, will take place at the four-day event, July 31-Aug. 3 at the big
By Peter Covino A&E Editor If you are 50 or older, chances are you know exactly where you were and what you were doing this weekend 45 years ago. That’s when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made that famous “one giant leap for mankind” and became the first men to walk on the moon. If you missed it the first time around or want to relive those historic memories, NASA
By Peter Covino A&E Editor Instead of spending the summer playing video games or watching television, youngsters can spend their time living in the past, at one of the summer camps offered by the Osceola County Historical Society. The 2014 summer camp program actually started back in June, but there is still time to sign up for camps that involve the Civil War, as well as the history of Osceola
“What the Dickens Orlando,” a celebration of the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, is offering a cash prize of $5,000 to the best flash mob video that is built around a song from a musical inspired by the works of Charles Dickens. Examples include “Who Will Buy” or “Food, Glorious Food” from Oliver! and “Thank you Very Much” from Scrooge. To be eligible, a
By Peter Covino A&E Editor He hasn’t had this much to say since he was governor of California. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor-turned-governor-turned-actor again is pretty much up to usual form in Sabotage (Universal Studios Home Entertainment), an action film where he plays Breacher Wharton, the task force leader of a DEA team, that is not having a particularly good time of it. In the opening bullet-filled
By Peter Covino A& E Editor You can’t use that old excuse it is just too hot to go to Disney World in the summer. The temperature may reach the mid-90s most days in summer in Central Florida, but it is downright Frozen at Disney’s Hollywood Studios through Sept. 1. Disney is celebrating all things Frozen, as in the hit animated film with Frozen Summer