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• New Roads Await

  County News

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 12:35

  

      Graduating seniors from Harmony High School fill the stairwells in the north concourse of the Silver Spurs Arena prior to entering the arena floor for their commencement May 28. New...

• Hurricane guide now available

  County News

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 12:30

  

  The Kissimmee Utility Authority Wednesday released its 2010 Osceola Hurricane Handbook, a free comprehensive preparedness guide offered annually to Osceola County residents. The 40-page handbook has been...

• News Briefs for June 5, 2010

  County News

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 12:23

  

  Van Meter Van Meter now in Kissimmee race Jeanne Van Meter, a former Kissimmee city commissioner, this week filed to run in the city election for seat 2. Other candidates in the non-partisan race i...

• Crack rocks found in jail socks

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 12:16

  

  Townsend An inmate at the Osceola County Jail was found with six pieces of crack cocaine hidden in a balled up pair of socks Wednesday. James Townsend, 26, had been arrested for disorderly intoxicat...

• Dollar Zone Plus armed robber sought

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 12:14

  

  Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives continued to look for a man who robbed a Dollar Zone Plus store May 12 at press time Friday and are asking for the public's help in identifying him. ...

• Two men accused of several burglaries

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 12:08

  

  Vazquez Thompson The arrests of two Kissimmee men Tuesday cleared more than 10 smash-and-grab burglaries in Osceola County, Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives reported. Al...

• M. Dean Cherry Coach of the Year

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 09:40

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Ken Jackson Poinciana High girls basketball coach Jamerson “J.J.” Jones, left, holds the Coach of the Year Award. At right, PHS Athletic Director Mal Harpell, a two-time Coach of the Y...

• David Benson takes Liberty football post

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 09:37

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Liberty Coach David Benson talks to one of his players during a 2008 game at Chargers field. Benson was named the team’s head coach Tuesday. By Ken JacksonSports...

• Horns’ Brent Piester to play at dad’s alma mater

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 09:26

  

  Photo/Special to the News-Gazette Harmony football player Brent Piester recently signed a letter of intent to Central College, Iowa, with his parents, Pamm and Jerry Piester, and his brother, Brandon. ...

• Durbin: Good job

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 08:39

  

  Kissimmee City Manager Mark Durbin has made the announcement that Aug. 31 will be his last day on the job after 23 years. Durbin after the commission meeting Tuesday said he never anticipated managing the city for mor...

• Ongoing oil spill destroys that Myth of Competence

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 08:38

  

  Leonard PittsTribune Media Now they're saying August. August. After a month and a half of "top kill" and "junk shot," of chemical dispersants and high-tech domes, of skimmers and controlled burns, this is what we hav...

• Unfair trade practices wiping out U.S. jobs

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 08:35

  

  Robyn BlumnerTribuneMedia "It's the trade deficit, Stupid." Maybe if people walked around with signs and T-shirts with that slogan rather than rail against the federal budget deficit, the American worker wouldn't be i...

• Letters to the Editor for June 5, 2010

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 04 June 2010 08:28

  He’ll weight it outTo the editor: Once again, somebody has proven that carrying a pistol around makes as much sense as keeping a king cobra as a live-in babysitter. Nobody believes in the Second Amendment more than I. Gun ownership is the only deterre...

• Disney’s Star Tours will be part of big party —Classic ride is featured as part of Star Wars Celebration V

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 13:55

  You can say good-bye to one of Disney’s most popular attractions — Star Tours at the Dseny Hollywood Studios. After more than a decade of interstellar travel, the attraction is powering down to make way for its reimagining in 2011 – but Last Tour t...

• New resort makes a big splash — Coco Key Hotel features a water park, arcade and more for the family

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 13:54

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor Chances are, if you were a tourist in the early days of Walt Disney World, you may have stayed at the Hilton Inn South. It was one of the first hotels on International Drive and dubbed “a folly” becaus...

• It’s alive...it’s alive...it’s alive — Splice is a hybrid cousin of that other famous lab creation

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 13:38

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor At least it isn't a sequel.It is so rare to get an original science fiction fiction film in summer instead of the usual high-octane special effects variety, that it is hard to find ...

• Briefs for June 3, 2010

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 00:00

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• Local Boy Scout earns Eagle badge by making improvements to area preserve

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 00:00

  Keenan Schmidt, of Boy Scout Troop 240 in St. Cloud, completed his Eagle Scout project on March 22 at the Osceola County Historical Society, making improvements to a local nature preserve. ...

• KPD gets Walmart check

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 00:00

  The Kissimmee Police Department’s Traffic En-forcement Unit was recently presented with a sponsorship check from the Walmart store at 4444 W. Vine St. ...

• Father, daughter fight for awards at karate contest

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 00:00

  On May 15, Grand Master Harry Hamzy, Sensei Richard Viggiano and his daughter, Raven Viggiano, traveled to Connecticut to compete in the Hamzy School of Self Defense 50th Annual Karate Championship Tournament. ...