Kissimmee News Archives

With Florida positioned for another economically bleak year, Osceola County and other local governments vying for financial support from the state are at risk of not receiving much help once the new legislative session kicks off in March.

For the fourth year in a row, Kissimmee Utility Authority's annual financial report has been honored in a national annual report contest conducted by the American Public Power Association.

The report is available online at http://www.kua.com/annualreport.

A fire that injured two firefighters and severely damaged a condominium building started when two residents doused a beehive with a flammable spray and set it on fire, officials said Thursday.

Two T-6 Texans from Kissimmee Air Museum's Warbird Adventures make a formation takeoff.

S ometimes when worlds collide it's a great day for foodies. After World War II , many Southern Europeans immigrated to Latin American countries such as Venezuela .

Charged two months ago with DUI-Manslaughter, an Osceola County man landed back in jail over the weekend on charges of bicycling while drunk.

The Kissimmee Commission approved the price for the first phase of the downtown lakefront redevelopment project Tuesday, which will be an 18-month process costing 27 percent less than the $10.5 million bill estimated a year ago.

Video recorded by one of the residents at the Villa Del Sol condominium complex showed flames fully engulfing the roof of one of the buildings just after 9:00pm Sunday night.

A Polk County man charged with underage sex first met a 14-year-old Osceola County girl last year at Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights , according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office .

POINCIANA, FLORIDA | According to Manny Rodriguez, if Poinciana incorporates, it will become "the biggest city in Osceola County, outgrowing Kissimmee; and the second largest in Polk County, right behind Lakeland." So what's stopping this bedroom community of Orlando from becoming its own city?

"Its residents." said Manny, "Most of the residents of Poinciana are unaware" that a delegation of legislators will be coming into town on Tuesday, October 27th, at Liberty High School, located at 4250 Pleasant Hill Road, which is next to Lowe's. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. To help get the word out to those who support representative democracy, Manny created a campaign under the theme:

“Poinciana United.”

For the majority of the time that the issue of incorporation was being studied, residents clashed on racial and class issues, pitting, for example, residents of an over-50 community named Solivita against Poinciana villages adjacent to this high-end, golf community. "Poinciana is facing a tremendous crisis, and now for the first time since its development, we get the opportunity to organize," he added, "You don’t have to agree with incorporation, but you have the right to decide on the issue."

Florida's Orlando Sentinel decried loopholes in the system for disenfranchising Floridians but refused to make the connection between "super-pot" and Marijuana Prohibition. Voting is overwhelmingly against OS's position that Florida must get tougher on Marijuana Prohibition.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 2:09 a.m. The SkippyFISH lure company out of Pennsylvania is heading to Florida to shoot its national TV commercial on Lake Toho out of Kissimmee.

Firefighters from four departments battled a three-alarm blaze Tuesday night at an abandoned culinary school near Kissimmee.

Fire officials are investigating a fire that ripped through a storage building behind an abandoned culinary school in Kissimmee on Tuesday night.

A Kissimmee resident crashed into a mobile home in Orange County Monday, seriously injuring an elderly couple inside.

A judge in the civil case involving Casey Anthony, the central Florida woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, ruled that he would not dismiss the lawsuit.

An armed robbery of a CVS Pharmacy along Pleasant Hill Road turned into a car chase that ended when the vehicle crashed into a ditch three miles into Polk County Saturday morning, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office reported.

Kissimmee -- The annual Best of Florida Christmas celebration offers a host of "merry and bright" activities at the Gaylord Palm Resort & Convention Center on Nov.

CENTRAL FLORIDA | Rumor has been growing in Florida that governor Charlie Crist has it out for his Hispanic constituents. Now that rumor has a face, Cubans. However, Cubans, along with all other minority groups in Florida are more strongly targetted than ever for disenfranchisement, that is, losing their right to vote. If you need any further evidence, Central Florida's Orlando Sentinel published a front-page article on law enforcement's overt discrimination.

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What can you do to end disenfranchisement in Florida?

1. Join Free of Charge the Grassroots Group Named People United for Medical Marijuana - Florida.

2. Contribute Information to the Media Awarement Project so that All Florida news can be distributed to residents in Florida who are still allowed to vote.

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CENTRAL FLORIDA | "Grow-house raids in residential neighborhoods — happening regularly these days in Florida — often yield an illegal crop worth millions. Super Pot ...." Source: Orlando Sentinel, Florida, USA.

Osceola County Sheriff's deputies - acting on a tip a possible grow house - paid a vist to 1701 Big Oak Lane in Kissimmee.

On Thursday deputies served a warrant at a home on Big Oak Lane and recovered 138 marijuana plants in a building behind the home.

The overall number of major crimes reported in Osceola County during the first half of 2009 decreased 7.1 percent compared to same period last year, according to countywide statistics recently released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

A 19-year-old is accused of killing his girlfrienda s 2-year-old son after he got angry with the toddler for not eating dinner and soiling himself, pushing the boya s head with a blow that caused him to lose consciousness Sunday evening, according to Kissimmee police.

On Saturday morning, Sherlean Lee will go door to door in an Eatonville neighborhood she doesn't know trying to talk about something a lot of people don't want to discuss: breast cancer .

Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 11:21 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 11:21 p.m. Polk County Sheriff's deputies helped apprehend an armed robbery suspect Saturday who was fleeing from an Osceola County store, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said.

A 19-year-old man was arrested in Kissimmee on suspicion of critically injuring his girlfriend's 2-year-old son because the toddler would not eat and soiled his pants.

A house party with over 200 guests and underage drinking may have led to the death of a 20-year-old man and stabbing of a 17-year-old late Friday.

Osceola County Sheriff's detectives on Friday arrested Edwin Antonio Torres-Cruz, 20, of Kissimmee, and charged him with sexual battery, kidnapping, possession or use of a weapon and attempted armed robbery.

Authorities say they've arrested the man who kidnapped and raped a woman walking in a Kissimmee-area subdivision.

Osceola County deputies are looking for the person who stabbed to death one person and injured another after a fight broke out.

Four people have been arrested in what Kissimmee police call a car cloning scheme.

To help jump-start the local economy and expand the opportunity for local vendors, Kissimmee Utility Authority on Wednesday adopted a temporary local vendor preference policy.

A Kissimmee vacuum dealer was among four people arrested Thursday in connection with a ring police say stole vehicles from Walt Disney World and other locations, changed their identification numbers and sold them.

A neighborhood was sealed off for nearly four hours as authorities tried to capture a fugitive who eluded them early Thursday morning.

In an effort to provide rate relief and reward energy conservation, the Kissimmee Utility Authority board of directors on Wednesday authorized a new electric rate for the utility's small commercial customers.

The proposed rate could lower the electric rates of nearly 6,000 Osceola County businesses.

KISSIMMEE, FL: Christopher Allon Vogel, age 39, passed away September 10, 2009 in Kissimmee, FL.

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Ker's WingHouse, destroyed in a fire nearly two years ago, is set to reopen on Oct.

Local Kissimmee Florida tourism attractions are often overlooked by visitors to the area, mostly because many of them do little in the way of national advertising.

A convicted felon punched and tried to drown a police dog in a canal Wednesday while trying from Osceola County Sheriff's Office drug agents, authorities said today.

Law-enforcement officials in Osceola County are asking for help locating a sexual-battery suspect.

Published: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:24 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:28 a.m. KISSIMMEE A man being hunted by drug agents punched and tried to drown a police dog in a canal while trying to get away, according to authorities.

Gov. Charlie Crist finished his remake of the scandal-plagued Florida Public Service Commission on Thursday by appointing two new members with no connection to any of the public utilities the commission regulates - a former journalist and a county fiscal officer.