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• Letters to the Editor for October 1, 2011

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 15:05

  Underhanded dealingsTo the editor:I commend Gloria Colvin (president, Florida Library Association) for her opinion about outsourcing the management of our libraries to a company called LSSI (Library Systems & Services Inc.) based in Maryland.The fact ...

• Another possibly innocent life lost

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 15:03

  Robyn BlumnerTribune MediaIf you were watching a video of people passing basketballs back and forth, and a person in a gorilla suit strode into the middle of the game, stopped, pounded his chest and then walked on ... you’d remember that, right? Maybe n...

• Troy Davis, R.I.P.: One day the truth will come out

  Opinions

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 15:01

  Leonard PittsTribune Media 2000: Frank Lee Smith is posthumously exonerated – he’d died 11 months earlier – 14 years after being convicted of raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl. The eyewitnesses were wrong.2001: Charles Fain is exonerated and ...

• Horns make a splash

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:55

  Powerful Harmony continues county swim dominance By Rick PedoneSports EditorHarmony’s boys swimming team was expected to be very good this season, but it might be even better than expected.The Longhorns are 6-0 after coasting by Osceola, 128-42, at the...

• Season is slipping from some

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:54

  Just a month inside the doorway of the 2011 football season and already FSU has gone from championship contender to Champ’s Sports Bowl candidate.UCF, like FSU another preseason darling, has fumbled away a couple of clunkers at FIU and Brigham Young.The...

• Suns at Nike hoops clinic

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:52

  By Rick PedoneSports EditorThe Florida Christian College basketball team will be busy this weekend participating in the Nike Championship Coaches Clinic at UCF.Several of the nation’s top college basketball coaches, including Michigan State’s Tim Izzo...

• Deion Cossio first from COL to earn x-country grant

  Sports

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:51

  By Rick PedoneSports EditorWebber University assistant track and cross country coach David Andrews got a good scouting report on City of Life Academy runner Deion Cossio: his own.Andrews, the former Osceola High track coach, watched Cossio compete against...

• Hospice looking for Kissimmee site

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:42

  By Fallan PattersonStaff WriterA hospice organization that currently serves Osceola County residents 45 minutes away in Clermont, is working with Kissimmee officials to build a facility locally, creating 40 new jobs.Cornerstone Hospice and Palliative Care...

• City to put kibosh on future gaming operations

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:41

  

  By Brian McBrideAssistant EditorPointing to a rash of recent robberies at Florida arcades and Internet cafés that operate for gaming purposes, the Kissimmee City Commission Tuesday approved the first reading of amending the city’s ga...

• County starts on wish list

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:39

  

  By Marvin G. CortnerEditorThe Osceola County Commission Monday started discussing its legislative priorities for the Legislature when it begins to meet in March.Tom Franklin, who heads up Osceola Legislative Effort, a lobbying consortiu...