Healthful cooking on menu for Kissimmee kids in after-school club
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 18:17:16 -0700 | health-news
Wearing pint-sized chef hats and aprons, a gaggle of elementary-schoolers looks up expectantly from picked-clean plates. "Did you guys enjoy?" their instructor asks. "Yes!" comes back a chorus of voices. "Who wants seconds?"...The kids, fourth- and fifth-graders at Central Avenue...
Kissimmee firefighter dies in motorcycle crash
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-16 10:42:45 -0700 | travel-news
William Manning died this morning on his motorcycle when a motorist struck him as he entered an intersection on Osceola Parkway near Celebration, according to the Florida Highway Patrol . Manning joined the Kissimmee Fire Department in 2001 and was...
Lawmakers fought FAA air tower closures with ‘letter marking'
Source: The Hill
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-16 04:09:09 -0700 | business-news
Roughly 100 letters obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request show members of Congress were letter marking on the planned budget cuts from sequestration at the FAA. The FAA announced last week it would keep all of the towers...
Nationals to Osceola? County may land team for spring
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 12:44:45 -0700 | political-news
During that discussion, Chairman Frank Attkisson mentioned a possible expenditure of $20 million to $40 million involving tourist-development tax funds and spring training. Attkisson declined to comment further, citing a confidentiality agreement. That aligns with Anderson's understanding...
How much do you know about pop culture? Take our quiz to find out!
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 07:51:49 -0700 | entertainment-news
Like it or not, pop culture the mass-media driven herd of sounds and images that stampede endlessly through your stream of consciousness helps shape who you are. Your stance toward pop culture, be it one of embrace, alienation, ambivalence, or...
Former Osceola principal to prison on drug conviction
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 08:29:13 -0700 | political-news
David Groover, formerly principal of Partin Settlement Elementary School, must serve a year in prison following his guilty plea and sentencing today for dealing drugs, court records show. The once widely popular educator admitted to Circuit Judge Jon B.
SWAT team evacuates Kissimmee hotel
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 04:13:53 -0700 | political-news
Highway 192 where an aggravated stalking suspect has barricaded himself inside. Guests were ordered out of their rooms after law enforcement tracked the suspect to the Arbor Inn & Suites in the 4600 block of West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway...
White House Boys seek justice for their abuse
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-12 20:46:56 -0700 | political-news
They were all boys in the 1950s and '60s when they were sent to a reform school in the Florida panhandle, where they were beaten, whipped and sexually abused. They were at the Florida School for Boys in Marianna at...
Southwest, Coral Reef fall in state semifinals
Source: Miami Herald
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 18:09:38 -0700 | sports-news
What Southwest Miami wouldn't give to have the first 15 minutes or so back of its state boys' volleyball semifinal. Undefeated Longwood Lyman reeled off eight of the first nine points Saturday, cruising to a 25-10 first-set victory that left...
Southwest advances with comeback win
Source: Miami Herald
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 23:00:02 -0700 | sports-news
After a couple years away from the boys' volleyball state finals, Miami Southwest just needed time to adjust to the big stage. After dropping the first set to Douglas in Friday night's quarterfinal, the Eagles settled into their surroundings to...
Cypress Bay faces Lyman in state boys’ volleyball quarterfinals
Source: Miami Herald
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-09 20:05:03 -0700 | sports-news
Special to The Miami Herald When the Cypress Bay boys' volleyball team took the floor for the third set of its state play-in game with Cardinal Gibbons, it could easily have been its last match of the season. The Lightning,...
Mourning boys’ volleyball team breaking new ground
Source: Miami Herald
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 20:41:41 -0700 | sports-news
When Mourning coach Dee Rey helped start the school's boys' volleyball program, the challenge was getting potential players to take the game seriously. Four years later, athletes from different sports and ethnic backgrounds have helped the Sharks become sports pioneers...
N.J. fugitive wanted for murder arrested in Florida
Source: Record
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 14:33:56 -0700 | sports-news
Fla. Central Florida authorities have arrested a New Jersey fugitive they say was wanted for fatally shooting a man after breaking into his bedroom. Osceola County Sheriff's deputies said they received information that 30-year-old Nestor Torres was in Kissimmee.
New Jersey murder fugitive caught in Kissimmee
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 14:27:47 -0700 | political-news
A suspect in a killing two months ago in New Jersey was picked up yesterday at a West Jackson Street home, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. Nestor Torres, 23, had been a fugitive since Feb. 23 when he...
Entrepreneurship - Live With no Limits
Posted by: peak28line
Kissimmee :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 01:11:26 -0700 | your-story
I was assessing this morning my initial days in entrepreneurship. Why would I make a decision to go after that route? Perhaps it's in my blood line.My father, at a really young age, decided to launch his very own company...
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