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• Suspect pens apology for Christmas Eve break-ins

  Police News

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:03

  Fernandez-Escapa By Fallan PattersonStaff Writer A Kissimmee man, who allegedly stole $1.50 in quarters after breaking into unlocked vehicles on Christmas Eve searching for money to fuel his crack cocaine addiction, wrote an apolo...

• Turning out for the kids

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 13:37

  News-Gazette Photos/Andrew SullivanOn Tuesday morning, football players from Florida State University and Notre Dame paid a visit to Give Kids the World Village. Players such as Florida State's quarterback E.J. Manuel spent time talking and play...

• Osceola’s Stafon McCray led way

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 13:24

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Osceola junior running back Stafon McCray led the county with 1,509 rushing yards. Kowboys junior rushed for 1,509 yards, the best in Osceola County By Rick Pedon...

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch, tonight's free movie on the lawn

  Entertainment

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 13:17

    Grab some drinks and munchies at Eden Bar (Enzian Theatre, 1300 South Orlando Ave. Maitland)  and get ready for a free outdoor screening of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH on the lawn.  Cast members in full costume from IN THE WINGS Productions...

• Kowboys enjoy rout in Shootout opener

  Sports

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 13:15

  

  News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan Osceola forward Alain Allard (3) goes to the glass against Oviedo’s R.J. June (24) and Dexter Graham (15) during their game Tuesday at the Great Florida Shootout at the K...

• Letters to the editor for December 29, 2011

  Opinions

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 12:59

  

  Response to editorial To the editor: Considering that the Osceola News-Gazette does not have the wherewithal to endorse candidates in local Osceola County races over the past few years, it is hypocritical that in the...

• OHS advances at Shootout

  County News

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:28

  

  By Rick PedoneSports Editor Osceola, 8-2, raced past Oviedo Tuesday in the opening round of the 31st Great Florida Shootout at the Kissimmee Center, 68-52, and will meet state runner-up Lake Wales Wednesday at 8:30 p....

• Camp Lonesome opens property opens to the public

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  By Sam GilkeyFor the News-GazetteIf anything in Osceola County ever lived up to its name, it would have to be the Camp Lonesome Conservation Area.It’s accessible. But you do have to want to get there. ...

• Poinciana is beginning to reinvent itself

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  Lisa D’CatoPoinciana WriterHappy New Year! A new year holds new possibilities. Although Poinciana’s former Winn-Dixie store is still unoccupied and the neighborhood’s first beauty salon, Hair Den has folded, Slice of N.Y. has re-opened under the nam...

• Celebration golf leases operations to Solivita club

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  Celebration Golf Management, which currently owns or manages six golf clubs in the Central Florida area, has added a seventh: Stonegate Golf Club at Solivita, the active adult community Avatar is developing in Poinciana. ...

• School makes blankets for needy residents

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  By Fallan PattersonStaff WriterStudents and parents at Neptune Middle School in Kissimmee recently worked more than 12 hours making fleece-tie blankets for underprivileged Osceola County residents. ...

• City utility customers could get rebate

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  The South Florida Water Management District Governing Board recently approved investments in nine projects for fiscal year 2012 through the agency’s Water Savings Incentive Program (WaterSIP). ...

• Wreath laid to honor veterans

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  Mayor Rebecca Borders placed a wreath with Brianna Berent and Emily Reid Dec. 10 at Mt. Peace Cemetery during Wreaths Across America-St. Cloud. The event was coordinated by the city of St. Cloud, Ladies Auxiliary to the Post 3227 and Ladies Auxiliary to t...

• St. Cloud police help make Christmas a little brighter through Shop with a Cop

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  For the eighth year in a row, the St. Cloud Police Department helped the youngest residents of the city of St. Cloud have a merrier Christmas through the Shop with a Cop program. ...

• Camp Lonesome property opens to the public

  Around Osceola

  Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

  By Sam GilkeyFor the News-GazetteIf anything in Osceola County ever lived up to its name, it would have to be the Camp Lonesome Conservation Area.It’s accessible. But you do have to want to get there.Plan on about a 20-minute drive south of St. Cloud on...

• Visiting NCAA athletes 'Give Kids the World'

  County News

  Created: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 15:35

  Florida State and Notre Dame football squads visit with sick children prior to Thursday bowl game By Fallan Patterson Staff Writer Decked out from head to toe in Florida State University garb, Abbie Grace Flohr Tuesday danced the “Cupid Shuffle” li...

• Jobs agency donating controversial red capes to nonprofits

  County News

  Created: Monday, 26 December 2011 11:51

  Workforce Central Florida’s new board of directors last week announced the agency's controversial promotional items – the red capes that were a component of the Cape-A-Bility campaign – will be donated to local charities, and the first recipient wou...

• Osceola County Fair to open with demolition derby

  County News

  Created: Monday, 26 December 2011 11:38

  

  A demolition derby will open the Osceola County Fair on Friday, Feb. 8. Kissimmee Valley Livestock Show and Osceola County Fair officials have announced that opening day of the annual fair on Frid...

• Bicyclist in fatal crash identified

  Police News

  Created: Saturday, 24 December 2011 08:25

  Theron Dwayne Shine, 52, of Kissimmee, has been identified as the bicyclist killed in Kissimmee Friday afternoon on Vine Street when the bicyclist lost control and was hit by a vehicle. ...

• Another Santa letter

  Opinions

  Created: Saturday, 24 December 2011 05:35

  We sent an earlier letter to Santa but wanted to get another one in before he starts on his around-the-world deliveries. Our second Christmas wish list includes:• That elected Democrats and Republicans on the national level agree to an extension of the ...