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• Kissimmee police look for suspect involved in lewd act

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:26

  

  Suspect Kissimmee Police Department detectives are trying to identify a suspect who reportedly committed a lewd act Sept. 14. According to police reports, the unknown male was spotted by a juvenile ...

• Sheriff’s Office was in on gun bust

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:25

  

  By Brian McBrideAssociate Editor The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office was credited Tuesday in helping to execute the most significant firearms trafficking investigation in Central Florida history as labeled by the Fl...

• Masquerade Ball set for tonight

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:23

  By Rick MadewellAssistant Editor It’s time to get all gussied up for a lot of St. Cloud business people. Tonight is the annual St. Cloud Greater Osceola Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet, with Masquerade Ball as its theme, at the Barney E. Veal Cente...

• Valencia to offer bachelor’s degrees

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:22

  

  The Florida State Board of Education Tuesday gave Valencia Community College the green light to offer bachelor’s degrees for the first time with the approval of two new programs. ...

• First phase work at OHS wrapping up

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:17

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Ken JacksonA model of what the campus of Osceola High School will look like when work is complete. By Ken JacksonSports Writer When football fans descend on Osceola High School fo...

• News Briefs for September 25, 2010

  County News

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:15

  

  St. Cloud road closed during  project Massachusetts Avenue, from 13th to 17th streets, is now closed until March, according to the city of St. Cloud Public Services staff. ...

• Grand opening for Dogs

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:04

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Osceola’s Megan Hearn wins this showdown at the net against St. Cloud’s Sarah Sullivan (7) during their match Tuesday at St. Cloud’s new gym. St. Cloud wins ...

• Strange happenings in NFL

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 12:02

  Ken JacksonSports Writer know it’s early, real early, in the NFL season, and probably too early to use the “Bizarro World” references. But, if you start seeing dogs and cats sitting down for tea, don’t be shocked. ...

• Lady Longhorns lead the pack

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:58

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Harmony’s talented trio of Brittany Connor (23), Sam Travis (22) and Chelsea Connor (24) led the Lady Longhorns to the conference championship and the state meet last yea...

• Homeless Help

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:55

  

  We see them practically every day on the streets of downtown Kissimmee and St. Cloud and other Central Florida areas far and in-between. They often are disheveled and dirty, in tattered clothing. Most haven’t bathed...

• What do Moore, Gingrich have in common?

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:45

  

  Leonard PittsTribune Media As if things were not crazy enough already, here comes Michael Moore. In a posting on his website and an interview Monday on CNN, the liberal filmmaker upped the emotional ante on the contr...

• A look at current news topics

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:40

  

  Ross MackenzieTribune Media The British magazine, The Economist: “If (Obama) sees any impropriety in politicians ordering executives about, upstaging the courts and threatening confiscation, he has not said so ... (...

• The class war that just never seems to end

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:37

  

  Robyn BlumnerTribune Media They call it “class warfare.” House Republican Leader John Boehner and the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, Sen. Jon Kyl, say President Barack Obama’s proposal to let the Bush tax...

• The ghosts are back at Disney — Mickey’s Not-So-Scary event features candy and fun

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:19

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor You’re gonna need a bigger bag. Three hours into the Magic Kingdom’s five-hour-long Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and there wasn’t room for even one more Tootsie Roll Pop. And that is one of the fun things abo...

• Thrills and chills on tap at Enzian — Fall has its share of frights at the alternative movie theater

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:09

  The fall means movies, movie and more movies at the Enzian theater. There is something for everyone including film festivals and classics such as Carrie, Night of the Living Dead and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Here is a look at some of th...

• Robin Hood, fairies and more — Tinker Bell, Big Bang Theory, The Office all on DVD this week

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:17

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor Robin Hood did have its shortcomings when the Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe collaboration was released this spring, just ahead of the onslaught of summer movies. And while this second-coming of Gladiator (both men we...

• Harmony staffer named to statewide trails council

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:28

  

  Golgowski By Ken JacksonStaff Writer The community of Harmony, as developed, was designed to create a shallow carbon footprint by emphasizing foot traffic over car travel. Thanks to the efforts of ...

• Hoteliers critical of tourism spending

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:23

  

  Quiñones By Marvin G. CortnerEditor Some tourism-related business owners – hoteliers especially – are angry with the Osceola County Commission’s priorities for spending tourist development ta...

• Nearly 600 turn out for homeless event

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:19

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew SullivanRay Nowell, a homeless man from Kissimmee, waits behind 250 others in a line at the exhibition building at Osceola Heritage Park Friday, seeking assistance at Project Homeles...

• News briefs for September 23, 2010

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:13

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew SullivanParticipating in a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for Osceola County's newest park, Walk-N-Sticks, in BVL are, from left, Kissimmee Parks and Recreation Director Dan Loubier,...