Keyword: orlando
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In a notable victory for Florida’s minority party, Democrat Tom Keen was elected to the Republican-dominated Florida House in a special election held Tuesday. Facing off against “conservative patriot” Erika Booth, Keen won 51.3% of the vote in District 35, which covers parts of eastern Orange and Osceola County. The District 35 seat has been vacant since former state Rep. Fred Hawkins, resigned from the seat last year to take a job as president of South Florida State College.
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VIDEO AT LINK................... Dec. 7 (UPI) -- An alligator park in Florida announced the rare hatching of a solid white leucistic alligator at the facility. Gatorland Orlando announced in a Facebook post that the hatchling is the first solid white alligator to be documented since a nest of leucistic gators were discovered in Louisiana about 36 years ago. "This is beyond rare, it is absolutely extraordinary and the first one in the world," the post said. Park officials said only seven leucistic alligators are known to still survive in the world, and three are housed at Gatorland. Leucism is a...
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An 11-year-old trans child has been named the youngest grand marshal of the Orlando Pride parade. On Saturday, Dempsey Jara rode as the grand marshal at Orlando’s Come Out With Pride Festival, making Jara the youngest to do so in the Pride event’s 18-year history. …
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Florida is well-known for its alligators—they’re found in swamps, fields, and backyards, and they even can be seen crossing state roads on a regular basis. But while alligators are certainly common, giant, 13-foot gators that weigh nearly 1,000 pounds are not. And that’s exactly what the US Coast Guard found last month, the second-largest alligator Florida has ever seen. Attempting to Catch the Behemoth Gator Last month, US Coast Guard Licensed Captain Kaevin Brotz and his friends took on the brave and terrifying job of catching and killing a huge alligator that was spotted in a lake outside Orlando. The...
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The family of a six-year-old girl who was arrested, bound with zipties and perp walked for causing a tantrum at school is suing a Florida police department. Kaia Rolle, who was a first grader at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy Charter School, begged the officer not to use handcuff to restrain her before putting her in a patrol SUV and driving her away in 2019. The ordeal went viral at the time - and shocked the nation, causing widespread outrage at the Orlando Police Department and the officers involved. The new lawsuit, filed against the city of Orlando and several...
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Not off to a good start. A brand-new, self-driving shuttle bus suddenly crashed into another carrier in Orlando, Fla. — just two days after the shuttle service officially hit the streets. The SWAN shuttle — short for Shuttling with Autonomous Navigation — collided with a full-size bus in the city’s downtown area Tuesday, cops said. The crash was caught on camera by a passenger testing out the city’s hyped new service.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — On Tuesday evening, Orlando police say a man performing a ritual inside a home became angry, brandished multiple weapons and hurt people living there. Around 9 p.m., officers were dispatched to a residence following reports of gunfire. Officers encountered Fenel Dalexis, 46, who reportedly fired his gun within the home. Police guided everyone out, and an injured female victim emerged. Dalexis was scratched up so badly that he and the injured female were taken to the hospital. According to the report, Dalexis engaged in a “voodoo style” ritual in the home. A fight broke out when the...
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BAY LAKE, Fla. - A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly stole car keys from a baby stroller parked at a Walt Disney World park and rummaged through the owner's car, according to an arrest affidavit. Ahmed Snina of Orlando was charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and burglary to a conveyance, the affidavit states. The incident happened July 21. An Orange County Sheriff's Office deputy responded to a call at Disney's Hollywood Studios where security personnel said they had a suspect detained by deputies in the security office, according to court records. Surveillance video showed Snina...
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Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell saying she is incompetent and neglected her duty.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the U.S. says it is relocating a planned convention in two years from Florida because of what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration’s “harmful, racist and insensitive” policies towards African Americans.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Grand theft auto? More like grand theft animal. The Orlando Police Department is searching for a horse that was stolen out of its trailer on June 22. Surveillance footage shows an unidentified person approaching the parked horse trailer on a bicycle around 3:15 a.m. at 725 S. Kirkman Rd. The person is then seen guiding the horse out of the trailer, then riding away on their bike while leading the horse behind them. The horse is described as a black-and-white Paso Fino and appears in video footage to be small in stature. Anyone with information about the...
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People are starting to realize why the people who control Ron DeSantis could not launch their 2024 election bid from Florida.Despite Ron DeSantis being a Florida native and current governor, President Trump is leading him 50% to 30% in state-wide polling. Regionally and within the demographics of the poll, things look even worse. [Article Here] Casey will not be happy.Trump is winning Miami-Dade by 59 points (70% to 11%) and leading by 39 points with Hispanic voters and 26% among Black voters. The Sea Island recruitment of Miami-Dade Mayor Francisco Suarez is not getting the results originally planned by the...
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It takes real skill to drive this many customers away. ===================================================== Tweet See new Tweets Conversation Old Spook 👻 @maxheadroom470 Disney World in Orlando is suffering - here it is nearly mid-July, schools are out, families are on vacation, and the streets at Disney are just about empty! ====================================================== The July 4th weekend was a 10-year-low for the massive company's Disney World amusement park in Orlando, but all the parks have been suffering recently. More from The Wall Street Journal: Park visitors in recent weeks have had significantly lower wait times to get on rides, according to data from Touring...
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A Florida city police officer was reportedly arrested and stripped of his duties after being pulled over by a county sheriff's deputy for alleged reckless driving. Officer Alexander Shaouni was allegedly driving 80 mph in a 45 mph zone in a marked Orlando Police Department vehicle when he was pulled over by a deputy of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, according to police dashcam footage. The deputy activated his lights and raced to catch up with Shaouni's SUV after reportedly noticing him speeding down a local road. "Over 100 miles an hour trying to catch up to him," the deputy...
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A Florida woman faces a charge of driving under the influence after deputies in Volusia County said she drove onto a crowded beach. The incident happened Saturday at Smyrna Dunes Park in New Smyrna Beach where families were enjoying the Memorial Day weekend. Witnesses reported that the reckless driver plowed into the water after speeding down the beach at 50 mph in close proximity to several families and their dogs, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Officials said the driver, identified as Sarah Ramsammy, 26, of Orlando, almost hit a child.
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An argument between two families at Orlando's Walt Disney World has erupted in a mass brawl after a disagreement over a holiday snap. The scuffle at the Disney theme park on Monday ignited after one family asked another to move so they could take a group picture in front of the park's iconic 100th-year anniversary sign. The shocking video showed the families laying into one another, pushing and throwing punches at 'the most magical place on earth'. Around 10 members appeared to get involved in the chaos. The fight raged on for several minutes with other visitors shocked by the...
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Two customers at an Orlando location of the grocery chain Publix wanted a cake for an event they were holding late last month celebrating and supporting the transgender community..."Trans people deserve joy" was the inscription they asked to be written in icing decorating a colorful sheet cake. But the bakery worker taking the order hesitated. "After a loooooong waiting period a manager comes up...and says, 'yeah, we can't write that we aren't allowed to take stance either ways on this issue... ...the corporate account for Publix responded to Flasterstein's Facebook post with an apology - and an offer to make...
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A Florida man who said he was a registered nurse threatened Orange County sheriff’s deputies after he was arrested following a drunken scene at Disney Springs. Edward Stephenson, 30, of Brandon, pleaded not guilty in March to trespass, according to Orange Circuit Court records. “It took three deputies to place his arms behind his back and secure him,” Orange County Sheriff’s arrest report said. “Once secured, he continued to tell deputies he was going to sue deputies. Mr. Stephenson also advised he was a Registered Nurse and told deputies we better hope he is never our nurse in an Emergency...
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A Southwest Airlines passenger on board a flight to Orlando, Florida, was recorded screaming and swearing at the parents of a child that wouldn't stop crying. The epic tantrum - thrown by the grown man, not the toddler - left other passengers in hysterics as he screamed about the baby's consistent crying for 45 minutes. The ordeal unfolded when their flight was forced into a holding pattern around the area outside Palm Beach due to a bad weather front. Clearly frustrated by the wailing infant, the man started his raucous rant about how he paid a ticket to have a...
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The New York Times's David Herszenhorn on Friday wrote up a bizarre new conference held by the parents of the Boston Marathon bombers in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, where they have lived for the past year: "Parents Deny Son's Guilt And Accuse U.S. of Plot." It's puzzling why Herszenhorn chose such a credulous tone to the conspiratorial rants of the bombers' mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (The Washington Post made do with a brief mention at the very end of a related story on Friday). The parents of the two brothers accused in the bomb attack that killed three people and...
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