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Scott PowersJune 17, 2016

A family of 16 from Mexico reluctantly came to Orlando’s Camping World Stadium Thursday seeking burial help for their beloved son, slain in Pulse Sunday night. The family members were distraught, not knowing what they needed or how even to ask. They came to Orlando’s established-on-the-fly Orlando Family Assistance Center with just one request and, and before they […]

Scott PowersJune 16, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Bob Poe is making a $1 million broadcast and cable TV buy leading into the Aug. 30 primary, his campaign announced. Poe, a wealthy businessman and former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, can do that because he loaned $1.2 million to his campaign in January. He also has 30 canvassers — and […]

Scott PowersJune 16, 2016

Pool report on the visit of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to Orlando, to offer comfort and support to families, employees, first responders and others from the Pulse nightclub massacre, filed by Orlando Sentinel reporter Steven Lemongello: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were at Amway Center for two hours […]

Scott PowersJune 16, 2016

One of the world’s best-known symbols of LGBT pride is now flying over the Orange County Administration Building in Orlando. Section 93 of what once was a 1.25-mile-long “Rainbow 25 Sea To Sea Flag” — created to stretch across Key West in 2003 — was loaned to Orange County Wednesday and raised over the county offices Thursday. […]

Scott PowersJune 16, 2016

President Barack Obama arrived in Orlando Thursday afternoon to pay his respects and offer any comfort he might to survivors and families of those killed in Sunday’s Pulse nightclub massacre. The president arrived at 12:45 p.m. and headed out by motorcade to Orlando’s Amway Center arena, and then to Orlando Regional Medical Center, for private […]

Scott PowersJune 15, 2016

Orlando-area clergy, politicians, and leaders of the LGBT community came together Wednesday afternoon at the Orange County Administration Building to preach scripture, love and unity as the city prepares for its 49 Pulse funerals. In what some called a nationally unprecedented showing, dozens of Central Florida clergy representing faiths including the Roman Catholic Church, mainline […]

Scott PowersJune 15, 2016

I’m not religious enough to cite scriptural references in normal circumstances, but we all know the story of Job, and how he endured one calamity after another while his so-called friends tried to convince him to disavow his faith — yet he never did. Welcome to Orlando, where the rhetorical question, “What else can happen?” […]

Scott PowersJune 15, 2016

Love is conquering in Orlando. That’s the Day 4 message of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, as the community pulls together a remarkable recovery effort from Bloody Sunday and confronts a third tragedy in five days. Dyer and Jacobs addressed the city and the world Wednesday morning from outside of […]

Scott PowersJune 14, 2016

At Tuesday afternoon’s prayer time at the Islamic Center of Central Florida mosque, only four or five Muslims were praying there. This is the holy month of Ramadan and normally there would be a crowd. “The people are very scared,” said Imam Muhammad Musri, president of American Islam and a leader of the Central Florida […]

Scott PowersJune 14, 2016

Democratic congressional candidate Susannah Randolph has announced a three-point plan for guns including banning assault weapons and expanding background checks. Randolph is running in Florida’s 9th Congressional District, covering south-central Orlando and Orange County, Osceola County and eastern Polk County. Her position on gun violence was released in response to Sunday’s Pulse nightclub massacre. She, […]

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Milton damage. Image via City of Tampa.

Orlando Family Assistance Center working, shows ‘Orlando United’

Bob Poe makes $1 million TV buy in CD 10 primary, announces HIV event

Obama in Orlando: ‘They are our families’

Section 93 of the ‘Rainbow 25 Sea to Sea Flag’ raised in Orlando

Barack Obama meeting with Pulse families in Orlando

Men and women of cloth and rainbow unite in Orlando

The transformation of Orlando

Love is conquering, say mayors Buddy Dyer, Teresa Jacobs

Orlando Muslims seeking to play positive role but do so in fear

Susannah Randolph call for three-point plan regarding guns