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  • Five indicted for tax fraud

    Police News
    Created: Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:24
    A Kissimmee woman is among five people charged with collecting refunds on false tax returns filed in the names of Florida inmates, according to recently unsealed indictments announced by U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritto...

  • School bus crash in Poinciana

    Police News
    Created: Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:21
    A car failed to stop at a stop sign in Poinciana and crashed into a school bus Friday afternoon, injuring 10 students as well as two drivers and a bus attendant, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. The driver o...

  • New sexual predator in Osceola County

    Police News
    Created: Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:06
    Olmo The Osceola County Sheriff's Office advises that 46-year-old Felix Olmo, a newly registered sexual predator with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, lives at 2550 E. U.S. Highway 192, eas...

  • Harmony OBC weight champ again; 9 to state meet

    Sports
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    By Ken JacksonSports WriterNine county lifters earned spots in the Class A and 2A state weightlifting meets next weekend after big lifts in last week’s sectional qualifiers. ...

  • Softball, track teams prepared for district tournaments next week

    Sports
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    By Rick PedoneSports EditorFields will buzz in Osceola County next week with the softball district tournaments at Osceola and Harmony high schools. ...

  • State champions will go their separate ways

    Sports
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    By Rick PedoneSports EditorFor two seasons they were teammates and shared a state championship, but after graduation next month, Osceola High wrestlers Gabriel Bird, Levi Clemons and Joe Locksmith will take different paths to college. ...

  • Letter to the Editor for April 17, 2010

    Opinions
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    Living within our meansTo the editor:Times were good, I had a great job and money was pouring in. I could buy what I wanted when I wanted. Cash or credit, mostly credit. Why worry, I would be able to pay for it, money would just keep flowing in. Or would ...

  • Politicians should not make these decisions

    Opinions
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    By Amanda YoungbloodAs a teacher in Florida, I struggle to describe how frustrated I feel when teachers are thrown under the bus and made the scapegoats for so many of the issues in our society. And although I know our state is financially strained and we...

  • Why our teachers need job security

    Opinions
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    Robyn Blumner Tribune Media Over the objections of virtually the entire teaching profession in Florida, the Legislature has voted to eliminate teacher tenure and replace it with a new system of annual renewable contracts where school principals can esse...

  • Reducing noise

    Opinions
    Created: Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:00
    As always, there are at least two sides to any story, as is the case with commercial airboat tour operators wanting to use Kissimmee’s lakefront for loading and unloading passengers amid complaints from residents about airboat noise. ...

  • Arrested for molestation

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 16:17
    Durinick The manager of a taekwondo academy in St. Cloud was arrested Thursday, accused of lewd and lascivious molestation of two teenage girls, ages 15 and 16. John Thomas Durinick, 39, an instructor at John Emmons' Taekwondo Academy ...

  • Man shoots at deputies

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 16:16
    A man, who reportedly shot at Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies as they came to investigate possible drug activity at a residence Thursday, was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after deputies returned fire. ...

  • Father arrested for taking son

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 16:11
    Saddiqi A father was arrested for interfering with custody after he jumped the fence of a daycare center in Kissimmee and took his 3-year-old son from the building Thursday, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office reported. Zahid Saddiqi, ...

  • Man wanted for DUI manslaughter

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 16:05
    Lanier The St. Cloud Police Department has a warrant to arrest a driver who allegedly hit a pedestrian on Old Canoe Creek Road last year while under the influence of cocaine and Xanax, causing fatal injuries. David Jonathan Lanier, 35,...

  • Marijuana grow house in Kissimmee

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 15:53
    Osceola County Investigative Bureau agents served a search warrant at 3570 Fountainbleu Blvd. Thursday, where they recovered 32 four-foot marijuana plants and arrested the homeowners. Juan Miguel Levy Rodriguez, 42, and Naiby Morejon-Martin...

  • Teenagers arrested for robbery

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 15:49
    Three teenagers were arrested Wednesday for their involvement in a strong-arm robbery in Celebration on April 2, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office reported. ...

  • Attempted robbery of St. Cloud student

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 15:48
    The Osceola County Sheriff's Office is investigating the attempted robbery of a St. Cloud student who was attacked as he was walking home from school. ...

  • Safety check

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 15:47
    The St. Cloud Police Department conducted a driver license and safety check April 7 at Lakeshore Boulevard and Wyoming Avenue that resulted in 38 citations and six verbal warnings. ...

  • Car hits house

    Police News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 15:43
    An 84-year-old driver with a car full of passengers in their 80s lost control as he was backing out of a driveway and crashed into a Buenaventura Lakes house early Sunday morning, April 11, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. ...

  • First event in Osceola draws crowd

    County News
    Created: Friday, 16 April 2010 11:49
    News-Gazette PhotosAndrew Sullivan Radio broadcaster Jason Hoyt speaks to the crowd. On Thursday, Osceola County  hosted its first “Tax Day Tea Party,” at the steps of the Historic Courthouse in...