Orlando

Scott PowersJune 8, 2017

Winter Park’s U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy has won the endorsement of the Congressional Blue Dog Democrats’ Caucus for her bill clamping down on administration officials’ sharing classified information with America’s enemies. Murphy introduced her Prevention and Oversight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act last month after reports that President Donald Trump had shared classified information with Russian […]

Scott PowersJune 8, 2017

Another Central Florida medical marijuana shop is opening, this one operated by the licensed marijuana medicines producer Trulieve in Edgewater in Volusia County. The dispensary, at 103 Boston Rd., will be the first in the Space Coast area, providing both low-THC and high-THC products through capsules, vaporizers and tinctures, for patients who are registered as […]

Scott PowersJune 7, 2017

Republican Bobby Olszewski has become the first qualified candidate for the special elections set for later this year to fill the vacant seat for House District 44 in western Orange County. Olszewski’s campaign said it collected more than 400 petition signatures and on Wednesday the Orange County Supervisor of Elections certified 370, enough to put […]

Scott PowersJune 7, 2017

The Orlando Sentinel is shutting down its newspaper printing operations and will contract that work to plants owned by GateHouse Media in Lakeland and Daytona Beach, the newspaper reported Wednesday afternoon. The transition to outside printing contractors will take several months to complete, through September, according to a report the Sentinel published on its website Wednesday […]

Scott PowersJune 7, 2017

While expressing curiosity at a forum held in Washington Wednesday over whether Gov. Rick Scott might attend next Monday’s Pulse memorial services, Democratic state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith slammed the governor, saying “he has done nothing” for the gay community since the June 12, 2016, massacre at Orlando’s popular gay nightclub. Smith was speaking at a […]

Mike SchneiderJune 7, 2017

Ricardo Negon never kissed his boyfriend in front of conservative relatives. Carlos Guillermo Smith was once attacked by anti-gay students at a college party. After coming out in high school, Marco Quiroga left his mother’s home and became temporarily homeless. Many gay Latinos in Orlando have endured indignities, rejection or violence because of their sexual […]

Scott PowersJune 6, 2017

Attorneys for Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala and Gov. Rick Scott will give their oral arguments on June 28 in the legal battle over the death penalty in Florida’s 9th Congressional District. Each side is being given 20 minutes that day in oral arguments in the case that both sides and multiple friends of the […]

Scott PowersJune 5, 2017

The man authorities say killed five former co-workers and then himself early Monday morning in an Orlando business came in knowing who he wanted to kill and let at least one woman not on that list get away. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said John Robert Neumann Jr., 45, whose hometown has not yet been […]

Scott PowersJune 5, 2017

Five people plus the apparent shooter are dead in an early morning mass killing at the Fiamma company in east Orange County Monday morning. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said a man he described as an apparent disgruntled former employee killed four men and a woman Monday morning and then killed himself, in a camper […]

Scott PowersJune 5, 2017

Accused cop-killer Markeith Loyd has been cited for two more offenses; but unlike the murder charges he faces, if he challenges the new charges he likely would beat them: red light running tickets. The tickets, issued because of evidence gathered by red-light cameras in Orlando, were both for dates when Loyd already was in jail, […]

Orlando

Congressional ‘Blue Dog Democrats’ caucus endorses Stephanie Murphy’s secrets bill

Medical marijuana shop opening in Edgewater

Bobby Olszewski qualifies by petition for HD 44 special election

Orlando Sentinel shutting down its printing plant

Carlos Smith: Since Pulse, Rick Scott has done nothing for LGBTQ community

After Pulse attack, gay Latino community seeks strength

Supreme Court sets oral arguments in Aramis Ayala-Rick Scott case

Orlando shooter came in knowing who he wanted to kill, not kill

Five dead plus shooter at Orange County shooting scene

Markeith Loyd hit with two red-light running tickets while he was in jail

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