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• New birth certificates for Puerto Ricans

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:26

  

  News-Gazette Photos/Andrew SullivanLiberty Tax Service on Vine Street in Kissimmee held a birth certificate drive July 24 where nearly 1,000 Puerto Rican-born Central Floridians waited hours to order their ne...

• County’s taxes may see drop

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:23

  

  Hawkins Arrington By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Property owners in Osceola County who have seen the value of their properties fall over the last year – which is pretty much every p...

• Commissioners look for right words on sales surtax

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:22

  

  By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Osceola County Commissioners Monday will decide how to word a Nov. 2 referendum asking voters to authorize the county to collect a 1 percent sales surtax to fund transportation projects. Co...

• Water authority celebrates new home

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:19

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew SullivanCity of Kissimmee and current and former members of the Toho Water Authority board of supervisors officially opened the authority's new administrative office with a ribbon-cu...

• Facebook site — you are not alone

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:12

  

  By Ken JacksonStaff Writer Facebook — a great online tool for catching up with old friends and sharing experiences and pictures with family who live great distances away. IllustrationCan you trust your so...

• Two arrests in robbery

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:07

  

  Rudolphe Starnes Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested Stephen Rudolphe, 23, and Joshua Starnes, 20, both of Orlando, on charges of robbery by sudden snatching, ba...

• OCIB agents locate grow house

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:04

  

  Photo/Osceola County Sheriff’s OfficeA marijuana grow house was discovered at 2742 Oakwater Drive in Kissimmee. No arrests have been made. Osceola County Investigative Bureau agents on July 27 foun...

• Sex Offender re-arrested

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 13:01

  

  Colon Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives July 27 added four charges to those that registered sex offender Alexander Colon, 32, of 205 London Drive, Kissimmee, already faces. In mid-June, dep...

• Fast enough for Hershey

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 12:57

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Rick Pedone Miguel Soto Jr. holds the plaque he was awarded for qualifying for the Hershey’s North American Games after he won the age 9-10 200 meters state championship in June. His fat...

• It’s a diva showdown in Cincy

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 12:53

  

  Ken Jackson Sports Writer Hey Ohio, you can finally stop sulking over the loss of LeBron James, get out of bed, and do something productive. Like rush off to buy Bengals tickets. If you can’t afford tickets, then...

• SC Stars reach state semifinals

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 12:50

  Photo/Special to the News-Gazette The St. Cloud Little League 11-12 Softball All-Stars won district and sectional championships to qualify for the state tournament last week at Fort Myers. St. Cloud won two games at the state tournament, where ...

• Pro chat

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 12:48

  

  Members of the Kissimmee Youth Football League listen to former Osceola High football player Bobby Sippio after Sippio dropped by following a recent practice. After his talk, Sippio, a receiver for the AFL Orlando Pred...

• SC Raptors track members excel

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 12:41

  

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor Several members of the St. Cloud Raptors Track Club qualified for the 2010 AAU Junior Olympics at the National Club Championships at the ESPN Wide World of Sports last weekend. Octavia Gon...

• They are going to rock this joint —Mystery Science guys bring Reefer Madness to the big screen

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 09:45

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor Reefer Madness, one of the great midnight movies of all time, gets the big screen and Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment next month at Central Florida and other theaters across the nation Michael J. Nelson, Ke...

• This is Mousetouille, sort of — Dinner for Schmucks Dinner finale makes this crazy comedy worth sitting through

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 09:38

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor The reaction from this week's press screening (with invited public audience) pretty much sums up Dinner For Schmucks — you will either laugh a lot or stare in silence at the screen wondering what the fuss...

• Let’s bank on it

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 07:33

  

  Osceola County officials and residents have a difficult time ahead in deciding how to fund our various public needs, such as roads, county administration, mass transit, fire service and libraries, just to name a few of...

• Some nice quotables

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 07:32

  

  Quotations about public questions — culled from recent reading.... Lech Walesa, Solidarity founder and Polish champion of liberty -- in a Chicago speech: "Today (the United States) leads the world. Nobody has doubts...

• Letters to the Editor for July 31, 2010

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 30 July 2010 07:21

  

  Dropout rate in high school To the editor: Thank you for responding in last Saturday’s Osceola News-Gazette, Mr. Wheeler. I see the data through a different lens than those who are “intimately involved with Flori...

• County board supports OHP upgrades

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:09

  

  Veterans museum, new Osceola County Historical Society museum still in the running By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Osceola County commissioners Monday narrowed down the list of projects that could be funded with $19 milli...

• Rodeo returns to KSA

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:08

  

  News-Gazette Photos/Martin Maddock Children visiting the Kissimmee Sports Arena Saturday evening for the rodeo were able to take part in the calf scramble, which had a $75 cash prize. The rodeo, which will be held mon...