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• What about Dwight?

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 13:14

  

  News-Gazette Photos/Andrew Sullivan Above, Miggy Sosa practices a free throw at the Top Gun Shooting Camp at St. Cloud High Wednesday as other campers line up for drills. Campers say star center i...

• Not a good week to be PHS player

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 13:06

  

  Ken JacksonSports Writer There’s a few people that it’s good not to be this week. Take former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who put his whole world on display (literally and figuratively). He lost his job, ...

• YBOA champs

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 13:03

  

  The St. Cloud Spartans AAU team won the Youth Basketball Of America Florida state 8th-grade championship tournament at Ft. Myers. The team is playing at Tampa this weekend to qualify for the national tournament in Osce...

• NPF Diamonds host Akron Racers at Fortune Road fields

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 13:00

  

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor The National Professional Fastpitch Diamonds will host the Akron Racers today at 5 p.m. for a double header at the Fortune Road Athletic Complex. ...

• Barrel Horse Florida championships are under way at Spurs

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:57

  

  The National Barrel Horse Association’s Florida State Finals will continue through Sunday at the Silver Spurs Arena. ...

• Senior Games return to Osceola County after 3-year absence

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:36

  

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor After a three-year absence, the Kissimmee/St. Cloud Senior Games will resume Sept. 10-17 at several sites in Osceola County. ...

• Sports briefs for June 18, 2011

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:31

  

  GOU soccer The Greater Osceola United Soccer Club will hold competitive travel roster fill-in days for players ages 4-18 June 28 and June 30 at Austin-Tindall Park from 6 to 8 p.m. Registration for the fall season wi...

• Red-light running

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:17

  

  Once the city of Kissimmee installs red-light running cameras as planned following successful negotiations with an Arizona company, we urge drivers to avoid the fines associated with red-light running by simply obeying...

• Poinciana: An economic embryo?

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:13

  

  Keith LaythamPoinciana resident An old adage of investing is to “buy low and sell high.” It appears that this could not apply more to the current situation in Poinciana. Now is the time for investors in real estat...

• Face it, guys, you’re sleazy

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:11

  

  Leonard PittsTribune Media Let’s roll out the list. It includes, in no particular order of sluttishness: Kwame Kilpatrick; Jesse Jackson; James McGreevey; Ted Haggard; Gary Condit; Mark Sanford; John Edwards; Bill C...

• Far from worst thing

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 12:02

  

  Robyn Blumner Tribune Media A bill passed by the Connecticut legislature earlier this month was denounced before the vote by House Republican leader Larry Cafero as “the absolutely worst thing we could do.” ...

• Osceola County unemployment drops

  County News

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 09:46

  Osceola County's unemployment rate for May (not seasonally adjusted) was 10.7 percent, down from April's 10.9 percent and down more than 1 percent from 11.8 in May 2010, according to the latest report from the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. This...

• Increased fire danger forces statewide campfire restriction on all state lands

  County News

  Created: Friday, 17 June 2011 06:50

  The Division of Forestry at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Thursday enacted a temporary statewide restriction prohibiting all open campfires on all state lands due to extreme drought conditions and increasing wildfire threats....

• Missing Kissimmee man located

  County News

  Created: Thursday, 16 June 2011 12:48

  

  Nunn Update: Larry Wade Nunn was found in Lake County by Groveland Police in good health, Kissimmee Police Department spokeswoman Stacie Miller said. Nunn will be in contact with his family to expla...

• McGee, Tatume continue football careers at Pikeville

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:02

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Rick Pedone Oscar McGee and T.J. Tatume, seated wearing hats, recently celebrated their football grants to Pikeville College with family members and friends recently at the Osceola High gy...

• Gaither races to third place at adidas Dream 100 sprint

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:58

  

  Gaither By Rick PedoneSports Editor Osceola High graduate Tynia Gaither ran the 100 meters in 11.92 seconds at the adidas Dream 100 sprint at New York City last weekend, placing third against a nine...

• Top Team Champs

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:56

  

  The St. Cloud Rays won the District 3 Top Team Majors softball championship last week at the South Orange Complex, 9-1, over Conway. The Rays finished the season 19-0. Team members are back row, from left: Coaches Ed B...

• Storm state champs

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:48

  

  The St. Cloud Storm 14-U baseball team won the USSSA state championship at the Osceola County Stadium complex. Team members are, rear from from left: Colby Ortega, Coach Beaver, Alberto Gonzalez, Casey Coleman, Jea...

• Kudos to commissioners

  Opinions

  Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:32

  

  The Osceola County Commission’s decision Monday to hire an individual rather than a legal firm to fill the role of county attorney was the right one for a number of reasons. Kudos to Commissioners Fred Hawkins Jr., B...

• Letters to the editor for June 16, 2011

  Opinions

  Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 14:11

  

  Government and business To the editor: Business’ prime goal is obviously to make money for its owners. Contrary-wise, the Declaration of Independence asserts, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all me...