Ocoee News Archives

Taylor Morrison Inc. has named Tim Stapleton as president of the company's new North Florida division, which includes Orlando and Jacksonville.

Other than that, how was your flight? Ocoee man seeks compensation for damaged luggage, bad experience on airline flight in July Greg Dawson The Last Resort September 24, 2009 D ear Greg: On July 23, I had a connecting flight from Philadelphia to Orlando on Delta.

Two days to go until the corks start popping at the 14th annual Epcot International Food and Wine Festival.

Workers set dynamite charges to implode the Colony Plaza hotel in Ocoee, FL on Saturday, May 9, 2009.

The construction plans for two beleaguered Orange County high schools are going back to the drawing board.

Florida is being rewarded for being the best state in the nation when it comes to adopting children from foster care.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has broken up an organized retail theft ring responsible for stealing more than $1 million in merchandise from Central Florida Target stores and reselling the goods on eBay .

Orange County deputies arrested a man accused of stealing a retired police car. The car had been stolen from the Ocoee Police Department parking lot.

Do you know the land where the citrus bloom, Under the shade of the leaves, the golden oranges glow? Goethe W hen you think of Florida oranges, the great German philosopher Goethe doesn't ordinarily leap to mind.

C ollege students are used to having odd jobs, but even by those standards, Ryan Jones' work is a little unusual.

Orange County Commissioner Fred Brummer voted against a plan last year to allow school officials to build a new Maynard Evans High School on an existing freshman campus site near Ocoee, all but forcing the 50-year-old facility to be rebuilt on its existing site in Pine Hills.

Winter Park Public Works Director Troy Attaway at Morse Boulevard, which will be resurfaced in November The economic recession has left little work available for local road contractor Luis Pinzon - and created fierce competition for any projects that do surface.

A threatened rent increase and ongoing "we can't find the venue" complaints caused director Bob Cook to move his Central Florida Film Festival from Kissimmee to the West Orange 5 cinemas in Ocoee and the nearby Best Western and Courtyard Marriott hotels.

It's doing so in extraordinary fashion. Last night, Sentinel reporters got a tip involving missing Ocasio, an abandoned animal shelter, and a freezer .