Tupperware bounces back, reporting its first sales growth since 2017
The Osceola County-based company’s third quarter sales were $477.2 million, up 14% compared to last year.
View ArticleAutopsy: Nevan Baker’s hanging death a suicide, no other injuries found
The final autopsy for Nevan Baker, the Black man found hanging from a tree in an Orlando park earlier this month, determined he died of suicide, finding there was “no other external or internal...
View ArticleClermont police close hate crime probe of noose found outside Black-owned...
Clermont police have closed their investigation into a suspected hate crime in which employees of a Black-owned pain relief clinic found a noose hanging from a tree outside the practice in early...
View Article1 victim dead following a shooting in Orange County, deputies arrest suspect...
A suspected was arrested Wednesday night following a shooting, which led to a standoff with deputies in Orange County.
View ArticleZeta, now a tropical storm, hammers Gulf Coast, bringing floods, knocking out...
Hurricane Zeta hammered the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts Wednesday as a Category 2 storm with 110 mph winds and dangerous storm surge while knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, according to...
View ArticleAfter near record heat, cool air creep’n into Central Florida this Halloween...
Much to the delight of ghouls, goblins and Tiger King costume choices, cool temperatures are creeping into Central Florida ahead of the Halloween weekend.
View ArticleUniversal theme park revenues plummet 81% in third quarter
Revenue at Universal’s theme parks plummeted 81% to $311 million for the third quarter as its California park remained closed and the Orlando and Japan parks are open at limited capacity.
View ArticleFlorida coronavirus: After another day of over 4,000 new cases, total...
After another day with over 4,000 coronavirus cases reported, the total cumulative infected in Florida is approaching 800,000. The state added 4,198 cases Thursday to bring the total to 794,624...
View ArticleTourist blames 6-year-old son for how her gun got stashed outside Magic Kingdom
A Disney World tourist accused of ditching a loaded handgun behind a planter near the Magic Kingdom’s security checkpoint had an unusual excuse for how the weapon got there.
View ArticleShooting on South Orange Blossom Trail injures one, deputies say
One person was injured in a shooting on South Orange Blossom Trail Thursday morning, and several people have been taken into custody, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The person is...
View ArticleDisney opening virtual queue earlier for Star Wars ride and allowing remote...
Walt Disney World is changing the ways theme-park visitors can get onto the popular Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ride at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The window will open earlier ... and from afar.
View ArticleLGBTQ landmark Parliament House resort will close Monday
Orlando’s LGBTQ landmark Parliament House resort is expected to close Monday, a post from the business on Facebook said.
View ArticleCentral Florida elections chiefs, law officers stand at the ready to fight...
Elections officials are limited to what they can do beyond the 150-foot limit outside polling locations, the boundary between their jurisdiction and law enforcement. And law officers themselves have...
View ArticleResidents of rundown Mercy Drive apartments in Orlando fight evictions after...
Few people are left at Riviera Villas, a small rundown apartment complex on a blighted stretch of Mercy Drive in Orlando. Most of the tenants — single moms with young kids living off food stamps and...
View ArticlePost Tropical Cyclone Zeta sprints to Northeast US, leaves 6 dead; 2nd system...
Zeta, now a post-tropical cyclone, blew through the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States at a swift pace as it left behind millions of customers without power and six people dead. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleHurricane center says disturbance has 80% chance of formation
A disturbance over the Lesser Antilles and the eastern Caribbean Sea became “a little more concentrated” overnight and has an 80 percent chance of formation within five days, the National Hurricane...
View Article4 people shot in Winter Garden, police say
Detectives are investigating a shooting involving four victims late Thursday in Winter Garden.
View ArticleRecent Florida shark attacks on the rise, but that’s expected: here’s why
Florida shark attacks are on the rise, and it's not just because sharks are circling Shark Week on their calendars.
View ArticleUniversal previews a Halloween Horror Nights house for 2021
Universal Orlando has announced a haunted house for next year's edition of Halloween Horror Nights and previewed it online. Its name will be Puppet Theater: Captive Audience.
View ArticleFlorida coronavirus: Infections pass 800,000 with biggest jump in new cases...
Florida has surpassed 800,000 cases of COVID-19. The state added 5,592 cases Friday to bring the total to 800,216 infected. That’s the most cases reported since a Sept. 1 report which featured cases as...
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