Three schools adjacent to Michigan Avenue in St. Cloud have been released from lockdown after Michigan Avenue Elementary students reportedly hearing gunshots in a wooded area behind the schools.

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor

Harmony defeated Timber Creek, 6-0, Saturday to advance to the second round of the flag football playoffs.

A pair of high-profile Osceola County convicted felons received their sentences today.

David-Israel Zenon Murillo, who murdered Celebration resident Matteo Giovanditto during Thanksgiving weekend in 2010, received life in prison for his crime, and David Penney, who fired more than 100 rounds from an AK-47 into an Alabama Avenue duplex in St. Cloud before turning the gun on a pair of St. Cloud police officers and then himself in November of 2011, was sentenced to two prison terms totaling 20 years followed by 10 years of probation.

By Tiffanie Reynolds
Staff Writer

It will take more than one organization to help combat homelessness and hunger in Osceola County.

The Osceola County Meal Packing Event on May 4 and 5 will combine the efforts of 15 local charity organizations to add 250,000 meals to food pantries throughout the county. Meals of rice, lentils, dried vegetables and sea salt are packaged by an assembly line of volunteers working in one-hour shifts in locations at St. Cloud, Kissimmee and Celebration.

By Katie Pedone
For the News-Gazette

When the students in George Coffey’s landscaping class at Osceola High School learned that their teacher’s wife was seriously ill, there was one thing they knew they could do to help - honor their teacher and his wife through the very lessons he had taught them.

By Ken Jackson
Staff Writer

The 2014 general election is still more than a year and a half away, but a pair of early qualifiers to run has already set up a potentially intriguing County Commission race.