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• Letters to the Editor for February 18, 2010

  Opinions

  Created: Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:38

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• Kowboys, Tigers will host playoffs; PHS on the road

  Sports

  Created: Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:35

  By Rick Pedone Sports Editor So, what is Osceola High’s reward for having the school’s best boys basketball season to this point since the 1983 state champions? ...

• Heritage Eagles advance in FCC

  Sports

  Created: Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:34

  By Rick Pedone Sports Editor Heritage Christian’s two big guns came out blazing, boosting the Eagles to a 57-48 win over Venice Christian in the quarterfinal round of the Florida Christian Conference boys basketball playoffs Tuesday at the Eagle gym...

• 19 from county, 7 Kowboys at state wrestling

  Sports

  Created: Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:34

  By Rick Pedone Sports Editor By any measure, Osceola’s wrestling team performed extraordinarily well at last week’s 3A Region 2 meet at Brandon, claiming four individual champions and advancing seven wrestlers to the state tournament Friday. ...

• Storm soccer bumped

  Sports

  Created: Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:33

  By Ken Jackson Sports Writer The Celebration Storm fell just one goal short of the Class 4A Final Four boys soccer tournament. Of little consolation for Coach Mike Meechin’s team is that it was the most successful team-sport run in the school’...

• Cowboys, cowgirls in action at 124th Silver Spurs Rodeo

  Sports

  Created: Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:33

  By Rick Pedone Sports Editor The 124th Silver Spurs Rodeo gets under way Friday at 7:30 p.m. as hundreds of cowboys and cowgirls will compete in the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi River. ...

• Assessed value drop to bring cuts

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:54

  By Marvin G. Corner Editor Osceola County commissioners Friday afternoon at their retreat heard that falling property values could mean they may have to cut the county’s 2010-11 general fund budget anywhere between $27.4 million and $34.3 million...

• Pulling for the county fair

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:53

  Above, Scotty Brown, of Acme, Pa., takes the reins of the Brown Brothers team in the Southern Draft Horse Association's pulling competition at the Osceola County Fair Sunday. At right, channeling their inner child, left, Paige Wilson, 14, and right, J...

• Human signs in city resurrected Tuesday

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:49

  By Juliana A. Torres Staff Writer Kissimmee commissioners Tuesday backtracked on a previous decision not to allow human signs, agreeing on a new ordinance that would temporarily make this kind of advertising legal on private property within commercial ...

• 'Rewards are great'

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:45

  By Juliana A. Torres Staff Writer If not for guidance and consistent love of his foster parents, Peter Smith and Ann Marie Randolph-Smith, 18-year-old Tyrone Burns wouldn’t be the man he is now. “I think I’d been in jail right now or ...

• Coach has clubhouse named in his honor

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 08:41

  By Ken Jackson Sports Writer Mike Fields might be slightly afraid to walk on a high school campus these days. Somebody might want to name something after him. Fields, 57, the only baseball coach that Harmony High School has had in six seasons, was the l...

• Silver Spurs pageants tonight

  County News

  Created: Tuesday, 16 February 2010 04:42

  Pageants for both Miss and Little Miss Silver Spurs will be tonight, Feb. 16, beginning at 7 p.m. at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Silver Spurs Rodeo of Champions. Previous pageants have been held on separate nights. ...

• Detectives solve 11 burglary cases in west Kissimmee

  Police News

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 10:45

  The arrest of four suspects closed at least 11 burglary cases in west Kissimmee, Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives have reported.Detectives have recovered about $5,000 worth of stolen property and returned it to the owners. Three of the four ...

• Arrested for robbery

  Police News

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 09:04

  Two roommates were arrested for a snatching robbery Feb. 10, at the 7-Eleven located at 4400 Pleasant Hill Road, Kissimmee. On Feb. 11, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office's robbery unit arrested 24-year-old Kenneth Gutierrez, of Kissimmee, on an ...

• Woman arrested for reporting false theft

  Police News

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 09:02

  A Kissimmee woman was arrested after reporting the theft of a purse that contained a friend's credit card, which she then used to make a $500 purchase at Super Target, Osceola County Sheriff's Office investigators said.On the night of Feb. 10, dep...

• Human remains found

  Police News

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 09:00

  The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office reported that human remains were found Feb. 10 near Crabgrass Road in the Bull Creak Wildlife Management Preserve, outside of Holopaw.The remains were taken to the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner's Office, whe...

• Registered felon arrested for vehicle burglary

  Police News

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 08:59

  Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a man after a witness reportedly saw him peering into the window of vehicles and climb into one along Simpson Ridge Circle Feb. 10.Deputies spoke with the witness at 9:12 p.m. that day and began search...

• Illegal sale of alligator meat, frog legs and fish

  Police News

  Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 08:58

  A 41-year-old Kenansville man was arrested when he illegally sold alligator meat, frog legs and bluegill fish to undercover investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.John Earl Hasson was arrested Feb. 5. A year ago, a FWC of...

• Celebration soccer falls just short of state tourney

  Sports

  Created: Saturday, 13 February 2010 09:30

  By Ken JacksonStaff WriterThe Celebration Storm fell just one goal short of the Class 4A Final Four.New Port Richey Mitchell scored a goal in the 10th minute of Friday's Region 2 final, and it held up for a 1-0 victory at wet, blustery Storm Field....

• Letters to the Editor for February 13, 2010

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 12 February 2010 10:04

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