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Heritage Day at Winter Park’s Albin Polasek Museum celebrates diverse cultures

May 12, 2019 at 8:50 a.m.

Ann Robinson whirled around a makeshift dance floor at the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens Sunday, holding hands with a circle of other dancers wearing colorful European costumes. Romania,...

My favorite thing: Atmosphere is everything at Winter Park Farmers Market

May 12, 2019 at 8:26 a.m.

The Winter Park Farmers Market is so much more than fruits and vegetables. It's a meeting place for dogs and their owners, a plant shop bursting with colorful orchids and...

Survivors of Shanghai Ghetto reunite after 70 years

December 23, 2018 at 9:51 a.m.

The last time Bella Tresser and Chaya Small saw each other was nearly 70 years ago in Shanghai, where their families had taken refuge during the Holocaust. On Wednesday, the...

A passenger stuck on the Orlando Eye tweeted this photo on Friday, July 3 2015.

Firefighters rescue 66 riders on stalled Florida ferris wheel

June 24, 2019 at 9:37 p.m.

A team of firefighters Friday rescued 66 people from The Orlando Eye, a 400-foot observation wheel in the city's tourist district that broke down for more than three hours. There...

Customers and an employee relax recently at Local Roots Farm Store in Orlando's East End Market.

Orange County: Things to do for day trip in and around Orlando

August 23, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.

Want to explore things to do in Orlando and Orange County in one day? Here are some suggestions: * The beach is a great way to start the day, but...

One child dead, 14 hurt as cops seek driver in hit-and-run day-care crash

March 30, 2019 at 5:06 a.m.

Joel Rosado sprinted to the scene as soon as he heard the screeches and saw a black Toyota Solara plow into the Goldenrod Road KinderCare, where a 4-year-old girl lay...

Details emerge on Orange killers’ capture, how they spent time on lam

June 21, 2019 at 9:47 p.m.

Orange County killers Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins checked into a motel on Panama City Beach Friday for a two-day stay. Their plans were cut short Saturday when about 20...

Disney worker arrested on child-porn charges

June 18, 2018 at 4:45 p.m.

A Walt Disney World electrician was arrested Monday after law officers said he solicited child pornography through a fetish website while pretending to be a lesbian mother of three daughters,...

Witness Rachel Jeantel gives her testimony to the defense during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel)

George Zimmerman stopped by Texas police for speeding

March 30, 2019 at 6:24 a.m.

George Zimmerman, found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, was pulled over by a Texas police officer on suspicion of speeding Sunday, according to a police report...

George Zimmerman trial juror tells ABC: He ‘got away with murder’

March 30, 2019 at 5:15 a.m.

The second juror from the George Zimmerman trial to speak publicly told ABC's Robin Roberts on Thursday that she thought Zimmerman was guilty and that he "got away with murder."...

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