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• Fish and Wildlife expands manatee protections

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:41

  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a proposal to expand federal protection areas for manatees in Citrus County by creating a manatee refuge including all of Kings Bay in Crystal River. ...

• Burglary suspect sought

  Police News

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:39

  Ramos Kissimmee Police Department detectives are looking for a suspect linked to two occupied burglaries after he stole lawn equipment and pawned the items. ...

• OHS dethrones Harmony

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:29

  News-Gazette Photos/Andrew Sullivan Kowboys athletic director and wrestling coach Jim Bird urges on his team during a match. Winter, spring all-OBC team rosters By Rick PedoneSports EditorOsceola ended Harmony’s three-year reign as ...

• Harmony, Osceola rank high in state sports standings

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:24

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Harmony’s Brittany Connor pushes the ball forward at the Class 4A state soccer tournament. The Lady Longhorns accumulated 255 of Harmony’s total of 270 points in the FH...

• Top team champs

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:21

  The St. Cloud Braves won the junior softball District 3 Top Team championship recently under the direction of Coach Deanna Sphaler (top row, far right). Photo/Special to the News-Gazette...

• Sports Briefs for June 25, 2011

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:15

  

  GOU soccer The Greater Osceola United Soccer Club will hold competitive travel roster fill-in days for players ages 4-18 Tuesday and Thursday at Austin-Tindall Park from 6 to 8 p.m. ...

• Make McLaren safe

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:09

  

  Kissimmee officials Tuesday at the City Commission meeting took the right step in agreeing to meet with community members to address social issues in the city in general and McLaren Circle in particular following the J...

• Letters to the editor for June 25, 2011

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 12:05

  

  Something more needed To the editor: The article in the May 7 edition of the Osceola News-Gazette on COPE (Creating Opportunities for Parenting Education) was both inspiring and troublesome. ...

• So guess who gets off lightly?

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 11:57

  

  Leonard PittsTribune Media Consider two recent examples of American justice.In 2009, after a night of bar hopping, a man named Ryan LeVin plowed his speeding Porsche into two British tourists in Fort Lauderdale, killi...

• Try more realism

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 11:50

  

  Robyn BlumnerTribune Media Another batch of college graduates has been launched into the world to make their way, like promising sea turtle hatchlings scurrying toward the wide ocean. Reading coverage of the commencem...

• One size, extended edition, fits all. The final chapter of Lord of the Rings is at theaters for one night

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 09:10

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor As Norma Desmond most famously said in Sunset Boulevard, “it’s the pictures that got small.” Movies can still sometimes be big, and they do not come any bigger then The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and for one...

• More ups than downs at Fun Spot USA. Attraction celebrates new coaster with free rides today

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 08:59

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor If you missed the 13th birthday bash at both Fun Spot USA locations a few weeks ago you are in luck. Both the Kissimmee and Orlando Fun Spot attractions will be celebrating the ribbon cutting for the new roller coas...

• It was the happy pitter of Potter feet. Universal celebrates the 1st anniversary of Harry Potter at the theme resort

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 24 June 2011 08:54

  Universal Orlando has plenty of reason  to celebrate these days. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has proved to be a major success, driving up attendance at Islands of Adventure. The resort celebrated the one-year anniversary of the popular att...

• Champions Mud Bash

  County News

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 15:17

  

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• St. Cloud set for big Fourth of July event

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 09:35

  The Annual Wife Carrying Race will be handled by John Emmons’ Tae Kwon Do Academy, chaired by John Emmons. ...

• St. Cloud helps set World’s Largest Swimming Lesson

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 09:34

  City of St. Cloud Parks and Recreation’s aquatics staff coordinated St. Cloud’s participation in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson June 14 at the Chris Lyle Aquatic Center. The purpose of the annual event is to teach beginners how to be safer in a...

• St. Cloud’s CDBG Program meeting set for June 28

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 09:22

  The public is invited to attend the Osceola County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program’s St. Cloud community meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m., at the Senior Center, 3101 17th St., B Hall. ...

• Local residents named to Harding dean’s list

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 09:15

  The following local residents are among the 1,120 Harding University students included on the dean’s list for grades achieved during the spring 2011 semester.Andrea Ledesma, of Kissimmee, and Sara Howard, of St. Cloud. ...

• Getting businesses ready for emergencies

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 09:06

  Editor’s note: The following was submitted by City of St. Cloud Fire Marshal David Ennis, with information gathered from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ...

• Chamber initiates Local Government 101

  Around Osceola

  Created: Thursday, 23 June 2011 09:04

  Local Government 101 is a program designed to prepare prospective leaders with the initial educational background for public service.  Presented by the St. Cloud/Greater Osceola Chamber of Commerce in a non-partisan format, this progressive course pr...