Orlando

Scott PowersJune 17, 2016

Former Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority board member Scott Batterson‘s 2014 bribery conviction has been upheld on appeal. On Friday, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals upheld the trial court conviction without comment. Batterson was convicted in a 2014 scandal in which he was seen as the linchpin of a pay-to-play deal at the expressway authority. […]

Associated PressJune 17, 2016

Experts say it’s too soon to gauge whether a week of horrific news out of Orlando will hurt tourism there. But travel agents are not seeing widespread cancellations, and many travelers say they’re committed to visiting. “I had more people worrying last year about, ‘Should I postpone my trip because of Ebola?'” than are worried […]

Phil AmmannJune 17, 2016

Verizon Wireless is giving customers an easy way to help victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre. With more than 170,000 employees worldwide, Verizon Communications Inc. released a statement Friday expressing its heartfelt sympathies to all friends and families of the victims from Sunday’s Pulse nightclub shooting. Any Verizon Wireless customer wanting to help the victims and […]

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 […]

Peter SchorschJune 17, 2016

The frontrunners in many Central Florida legislative races piled on more money last month, with several candidates holding six-figure leads five months out from Election Day. In Senate District 13, the most competitive race among Orange County’s Senate seats, former Democratic Rep. Mike Clelland is trouncing the other two Democrats in the race with more […]

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 […]

Associated PressJune 16, 2016

President Barack Obama has concluded his meeting with survivors and the families of victims killed in Sunday’s nightclub shooting in Orlando. The president is visiting Orlando to express solidarity with the grief-stricken community. The White House says Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also met with the owners and staff of the Pulse nightclub who […]

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 […]

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Scott Batterson bribery conviction upheld on appeal

Orlando tourism: No mass cancellations now but future unsure

Verizon offering text donations to support Orlando Pulse victims

Orlando Family Assistance Center working, shows ‘Orlando United’

Where s**t stands in Central Florida legislative races

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

Obama in Orlando: ‘They are our families’

Obama concludes meeting with families of victims

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

Barack Obama meeting with Pulse families in Orlando