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Acting State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball says Wade Shows of Livonia, Mich., has been selected to take over operations from James E. Strates Shows of Orlando, Fla.

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Thursday, March 14, 2014, or 3.14, is our time to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Pi Day , a day dedicated in honor of the never ending number, 3.14159... To celebrate Pi Day in a more tangible way, the American Pie Council encourages the nation to indulge in its never ending love affair with pie and encouraging learning math skills using pi .

They live in the the shadows, empty lots and condemned buildings of every neighborhood across America.

Bar Louie is opening a second Orlando location in the Plaza complex near UCF on University Boulevard at Alafaya Trail.

Modest Mouse will return to Florida and hit up The Beacham Theatre in Orlando on Fri., May 16. This will be Isaac Brock and Company's first Florida appearance in five years.

The event has more than 120 participants who are first-place winners in all science categories for middle and high schools in county science fairs for Brevard, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Sumter and Volusia counties.

An industry spokesman says Americans spent an all-time high of $55.7 billion on their pets in 2013 and will creep close to $60 billion this year.

Back at home with the parents she tried to leave, then sued: 'Spoiled' cheerleader Rachel is seen off to school by her mother 'No wreckage spotted by satellite, no cracks in the fuselage and no secret engine data': Clueless airline officials rule out EVERY new crash theory - but haven't got any of their own The little 'princesses' they left behind: ... (more)

Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, who guided the state through a period of school busing to achieve integration in the 1970s, died early Thursday.

Here's a fun fact: The news about Orlando-based nonprofit Canvs looking to bring 14,000 square feet of tech-focused co-working space was technically broken by a documentary.

Before Anne Deli and her husband bought the Orlando Harley-Davidson dealership in 2000, the shop closed during Bike Week so Now, tens of thousands of bikers flood the dealership along Interstate 4 for what Deli has come to call "Orlando Bike Week."

The injunction was dropped Wednesday after attorneys for Grayson's wife, Lolita Carson-Grayson, filed a voluntary dismissal.

Kathy Ramsberger and members of The Orlando Ballet stand on the main stage take a tour of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday November 6, 2013 during a tour of the facility.

The city of Orlando municipal planning board is gearing up for some pretty busy meetings in the next couple of months.

Documentaries about a Led Zeppelin urban legend and a penis museum in Iceland are among the 170 films playing this year's Florida Film Festival.

Hudson Yang will play EDDIE HUANG, a well-meaning, likable kid, and a recent transplant from Washington, D.C., now living in homogenized, all-white Orlando, Florida, where his dad is opening a restaurant.

A tweet registering anger about a new title for 'Fresh Off the Boat.' The working title for an ABC sitcom is 'Far East Orlando.'

Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun has agreed to an endorsement deal with baseball footwear and apparel company 3n2 LLC, his first since his suspension last year for violating Major League Baseball's anti-drug agreement.

This image taken from a video released by attorney Howard Iken on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, shows George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, during an interview in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, March 7, 2014.