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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...

• Local News for October 1, 2011

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 14:30

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• Central Florida Hospitality Hall of Fame to induct four new members at Gaylord Palms gala Saturday

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 12:57

  More than 500 local hospitality industry influencers and UCF Rosen College faculty, staff and supporters will come together this Saturday at the college’s largest fundraising event of the year to benefit education scholarships.  Highlighting the ev...

• Thirteen apply for KUA board

  County News

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 12:07

  Thirteen individuals have submitted applications to fill a vacancy on the Kissimmee Utility Authority board of directors, the largest number of applicants in the Authority’s 26-year history. The deadline for completed applications was 5 p.m. on Thursda...

• Food trucks are coming back and other tasty treats.

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 09:27

  By Peter Covino Lifestyles Editor Sadly, after writing so much about food trucks in the past few weeks, I didn’t even get to Kissimmee’s first food truck event Friday night. But it’s all good. Kissimmee Main Street exec Kelly Trace said...

• It’s like a flash mob with cameras this weekend. Worldwide Photowalk is in downtown Kissimmee

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 09:08

  By Peter CovinoLifestyles Editor Smile! You might be be part of the Worldwide Photowalk.   ...

• Go ahead and scream, it’s that time of year. Halloween Horror Nights and more at the theme parks.

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 09:01

  By Peter CovinoLifestyles Editor It still feels hot out, but it is most definitely fall at the theme parks. Mickey’s annual Halloween event returned a few weeks ago to the Magic Kingdom, and now the biggest Halloween event of all, Universal Florida�...

• A bit of Tarantino in the night. Plus Dumbo, Big Bang Theory and The Bad Seed, all on Blu-ray

  Entertainment

  Created: Friday, 30 September 2011 08:50

  By Peter Covino Lifestyles Editor I am not sure when I first fell in love with director Quentin Tarantino. It was probably after having seen Natural Born Killers the first time. He wrote the screenplay, but I only knew it was an Oliver Stone ...

• Tweet to decide who in the world sees Paranormal Activity 3 first

  Entertainment

  Created: Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:43

  In an unprecedented move, Paramount Pictures will debut PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 exclusively in cities where the most fans “Tweet To See It First”. This first ever of its kind campaign was launched this week  and is open to fans worldwide. PARANORMA...

• Captured St. Cloud monkey dies

  County News

  Created: Thursday, 29 September 2011 10:57

  

  Osceola News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Duke Outlaw and veterinarian Matt Walter of Osceola County Animal Control inspected the monkey after its capture Wednesday afternoon. By Fallan Patterson...

• Bulldogs forfeit GHS, Agape Christian FB wins

  Sports

  Created: Thursday, 29 September 2011 09:49

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor St. Cloud High must forfeit football victories against Gateway and Agape Christian and pay a $500 fine after the Florida High School Athletic Association Thursday determined that the Bulldogs used an ineligible player during i...