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• Chargers look sharp, 27-8

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:32

  Liberty quarterback Terrell Bonds made an impressive varsity debut at the spring game at Chargers field last Friday, throwing for 200 yards and three touchdowns Soph quarterback throws 3 TD passes against Cypress Creek By Rick PedoneSp...

• Spring football drills wrap up with six games

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:29

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Former Osceola High player Marc Deas explains a drill to Kowboys defensive back Hassan Childs during a recent practice at the high school. Deas, who is a safety at the Univ...

• County squads’ grades impress

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:27

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor Three Osceola County High schools placed among the top 10 of their respective classes in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s Academic Team Championship standings. ...

• Going batty?

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:24

  

  The St. Cloud Yellow Jackets 14-U softball team recently won the West Orange Girls Club spring tournament, going undefeated. The team entered the tournament as the fourth seed. Pictured from left, front to back, are Au...

• Sports Briefs for May 26, 2011

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:15

  GHS wrestlers Gateway High wrestlers Alex Velez and Christian Vazquez have qualified for USA Wrestling national tournaments at Daytona Beach and Fargo, N. D. this summer. ...

• Making dreams come true

  Opinions

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:11

  

  Dreams will always come true as long as there are organizations like Give Kids The World, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. ...

• What price our principles?

  Opinions

  Created: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 11:09

  

  Leonard PittsTribune Media “I would find myself trussed up and left for hours in ropes, my biceps bound tightly with several loops to cut off my circulation and the end of the rope cinched behind my back, pulling my...

• Justice Department investigation of Joanie's Diner closed

  County News

  Created: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:39

  

  By Fallan Patterson Staff Writer The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has closed its investigation of an allegation of discrimination from a Puerto Rican man who claimed he was not allowed to s...

• No, we’re not off to see the wizard — Obi-Wan and Chewbacca too, Star Tours returns to Disney Studios

  Daily News Updates

  Created: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 12:21

  

  By Peter CovinoEntertainment Editor Some of my favorite Walt Disney World memories involve riding the original Star Tours ride after having  several drinks at a Disney press party. Some of my worst Walt Disney...

• Goldstar Inn robbed

  County News

  Created: Monday, 23 May 2011 11:33

  

  Goldstar Suspect Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying an armed robbery suspect who robbed the Goldstar Inn Sunday at about 10:48 p.m. ...

• Shot hits car in Poinciana

  County News

  Created: Monday, 23 May 2011 11:30

  

  Osceola County Sheriff's Office detectives need the public's help in identifying a shooting suspect.On Saturday at approximately 1:45 a.m., Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the area of Cypress Parkway and Doverpl...

• Temporary road closure and detour on Milton Avenue

  County News

  Created: Monday, 23 May 2011 08:58

  Toho Water Authority crews are working a collapsing sewer manhole and as such will be closing Milton Avenue at Carroll Street today through Friday. ...

• Don't let go your Legoland —Legoland Florida announces official grand opening for Oct. 15

  Daily News Updates

  Created: Monday, 23 May 2011 08:23

  The world's largest Legoland Park will open its doors for the first time Saturday, Oct. 15. Legoland officials made the announcement for the Orlando area's newest theme this morning. ...

• Deputies conduct heroin operation and arrest nine

  Police News

  Created: Saturday, 21 May 2011 10:07

  Edwards Martinez Gonzalez The Osceola County Sheriff's Office Tourist Policing Unit, Narcotics Enforcement Team and Community Response Team West on Thursday conducted an undercover investigation foc...

• Ramirez election lawsuit moving forward

  County News

  Created: Saturday, 21 May 2011 09:49

  By Marvin G. Cortner Editor Osceola County Circuit Judge Jeffrey M. Fleming on Friday afternoon denied a defendant's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former candidate Armando Ramirez seeking to void the results of the Nov. 2 district 2 County Commis...

• Osceola County joblessness drops again

  County News

  Created: Friday, 20 May 2011 14:50

  Osceola County's unemployment rate for April (not seasonally adjusted) was 10.8 percent, down from March's 11.3 percent and down 1 percent, from 11.8, in April 2010, according to the latest report from the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. This rep...

• Box Office Mojo forecasts $110 million for Pirates of the Caribbean opening.

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 20 May 2011 14:38

  Forecast: 'Pirates' Has Some Life Left in It by Brandon Gray Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides May 19, 2011 This weekend, only one movie opens nationwide, and it's a doozy. Pirates of ...

• Attention all pinball wizards, this show is for you —weekend TV documentary traces the history of pinball and its avid fans today

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 20 May 2011 14:16

  By Peter CovinoEntertainment Editor Long before Pac Man and even Pong, there was pinball. Kids who have grown up on a steady diet of Mortal Combat, Medal of Honor  or Grand Theft Auto would be mystified at the untold pleasures millions used to get ...

• Not a bad number after all — I am Number Four dvd/Blu-ray is a good fit for the home theater

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 20 May 2011 14:00

  By Peter Covino Entertainment Editor Remember The Blob? We're talking the original red-jelly Blob from the 1950s, that terrorized and ate all those movie theater patrons more than 50 years ago. ...

• Give Kids The World celebrates 25 years

  County News

  Created: Friday, 20 May 2011 13:59

  

  News-Gazette Photo/FallanPattersonGive Kids The World founder Henri Landwirth, center, receives help from Alyssa Pietruszka, 13, left, whose kidney cancer has been in remission since her fist visit to the org...