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A mother of three is dead. Her father, with whom she had come from Florence, South Carolina, for a construction job, is grieving. And her father's girlfriend is in critical condition. These are three of the lives affected when two men in a Chevrolet Monte Carlo ran a red light Thursday night while fleeing...read more...

KISSIMMEE - National Drug Reform Campaign (DRC) kicked off a program they're calling the "Truth 08 Campaign." DRC has put out a three-part video of a 25-minute legalization debate to help spread their information on why the War on Drugs has not worked.

The program has received little attention in the U.S. but has been broadcast to Arab audiences across Europe and the Middle East. DRC works for reforms like medical marijuana, changes in drug sentencing, restoring financial aid to students with drug convictions and limiting the use of SWAT teams to emergency situations.

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Kissimmee police Chief Fran Iwanski accepted a plaque Tuesday on behalf of his department to honor Thomas Alan Bartholomew -- the agency's only officer to die in the line of duty.

Seven candidates -- three Democrats and four Republicans -- seeking the District 3 County Commission met at Liberty High School, 4250 Pleasant Hill Road. Government transparency, prayers at commissioners meetings, transportation, the Poinciana hospital, and better-paying jobs were the hot topics of the night.

If you've cleaned up the lakes in Polk County and want to range a little farther afield, there are a couple of other cleanups of natural areas.

Osceola County deputies arrested a 28-year-old man they say stabbed and robbed a woman Monday night in Kissimmee .

Brian Keck from Kissimmee, Florida is our big winner of the "Dead Zone" final season DVD.

Two people were flown to the emergency room with serious head injuries after being attacked by a group of people armed with belt buckles.

The pink fuzz on the cypress trees invites questions from curious boaters: What exactly is that stuff? The simple answer: nothing biologists and lake experts want in Lake Toho.

This is a copy of an e-mail that was sent to a Kissimmee woman who has a lost dog.

Former Walt Disney World security guard Edwin Sotomayor filed a lawsuit this morning in state Circuit Court in Orlando seeking to challenge Disney's position on employees' guns and to get his job back.

What the hell do they teach in school down in Florida? A Kissimmee man was arrested after he called police to report that he'd been robbed of the money he stole.

The Kissimmee/Osceola County Chamber of Commerce hosted the first debate Wednesday that encompassed all qualified Kissimmee Commission candidates discussing a number of issues, ...

Several Osceola County schools saw improvement in their overall grades but most maintained their previous year's scores, according to the Florida Department of Education's annual report on school performance.

Kissimmee Utility Authority today announced that its comprehensive hurricane preparedness guide is now available in Spanish. The full-color guide can be downloaded from the utility's Web site at www.kua.com/hurricane.

Authorities will give about 1,000 decks of "cold case" playing cards featuring photographs and facts about homicides or missing persons cases to inmates in the Osceola County Jail in the hopes of gathering new ...

From a group of 1,500 people attending a banquet at the Gaylord Palms resort Sunday night, 16 of them became ill.

Fitch Ratings affirms the 'A' rating of Florida's Kissimmee Utility Authority's $225.74 million of outstanding electric system revenue bonds.

To assist residents in preparing for hurricane season, Kissimmee Utility Authority will host the 2008 Osceola Hurricane Preparedness Expo from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 12 at the Kissimmee Civic ...

A personal watercraft and a boat collided off the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Clearwater this afternoon, sending one person to the hospital, authorities said.