Democrat Leonard Spencer leads one of the area’s most tightly contested races, pulling ahead of Republican Carolina Amesty with 50.1% of the vote for a swing seat in the Florida House.
Spencer, a 53-year-old business executive, looked poised to unseat Amesty, a 30-year-old lawmaker completing her first term in office and facing felony charges related to her work as an
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Incumbent Orange County Commissioner Nicole Wilson and newcomer Kelly Semrad, two immensely under-funded candidates committed to protecting rural communities from sprawl, won their races Tuesday, turning back challengers who were backed by big-money development interests.
In a third commission race, the winner was incumbent Mayra Uribe, who has sided with environmentalists on key votes. With commanding victories for two county ballot
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We teamed up with journalism students from UCF to talk to Central Florida voters about their opinions and attitudes on election day. Here’s what voters told us at the polls.
Student: ‘It felt good to vote for a woman’ | 1:06 p.m.
Katie Coyle, a student at the University of Central Florida, was driven to the polls Tuesday by her
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Personal Navigators, and other details from the Halloween on the High Seas 3-Night Bahamian Cruise from Port Canaveral. The Disney Wish set sail from Port Canaveral, Florida on October 25, 2024. There are additional Personal Navigators from Continue Reading →
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Overcoming hurricane threats, inflation worries and forecasts of a softer domestic travel market, Orange County’s tourist-tax collections finished the fiscal year higher than ever, according to figures released Tuesday morning by Comptroller Phil Diamond.
Receipts in September totaled $25.7 million, about $1.1 million better than September 2023 — and the most ever for the month, capping a fiscal-year record for
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Two former Walt Disney World rides will be represented in the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives after donations of their distinctive vehicles by Disney Parks, the organization announced Tuesday.
Snow White’s Scary Adventures, which closed at Magic Kingdom in 2012, and Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, a part of DisneyQuest when it closed in 2017, will be part of the
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By Lacey Pfalz, TravelPulse
Residents of Wisconsin refer to it fondly as a place to converge, relax and spend quality time with one another within a pristine natural environment. Add that to Door County’s International Dark Sky Park and endless lake views, and you have a few of the many reasons to put this region on the map for your
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By Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune
Everything old is old again in Richard Osman’s latest comic mystery, “We Solve Murders.”
It’s not part of Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” series, but his fifth book to feature detectives who are old enough to collect pensions and read Modern Maturity. And it’s part of a wave of mysteries with sleuths who
Read more about Senior sleuths are the hottest thing in mysteries. Here are 5 who take a page from ‘Murder, She Wrote’
This week’s special offers from Disney Cruise Line include dates from now through late-March 2025. Currently, there are 69 unique sail dates, available with special offers available across the fleet Continue Reading →
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The sounds of Christmas are coming from deep inside Gaylord Palms. Chainsaws, ice picks, heavy machinery are revved up to turn huge blocks of colorful ice in “Ice,” the very, very, very cool — make that downright frigid — holiday sculpture display at the Kissimmee resort.
In some ways, this year’s attraction will be familiar. It’s a walk-through with elaborate
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