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The bad weather could create problems for millions of travelers this Thanksgiving holiday.

The number of *newly laid-off workers filing for unemployment benefits fell more than expect last week.

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A bomb threat at a downtown Orlando building forced evacuations and road closures Tuesday afternoon, but investigators have officially called it a hoax.

Member of the Orlando SWAT team are trying to get an armed man to leave a downtown area house in which he barricaded himself earlier this morning.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The School District of Osceola County recently awarded Rhodes+Brito Architects a contract to provide continuing services in 2009-2010 worth up to $2 million. Ruffin Rhodes, co-founder and partner at Rhodes+Brito Architects, said the continuing services contract means the award winning architectural firm can be called on at any time to work on a variety of projects during the term.

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Ride Green Scooters of Winter Park---the new venture by Orlando entrepreneur Ron Schwartz that markets fuel-efficient scooters priced from under $1,000 rated at 75-110 miles per gallon---was a big hit at the University of Central Florida Housing Fair on the east Orlando campus recently.

Fitch Ratings has assigned an A rating on Orlando Health 's $243 million Orange County Health Facilities Authority hospital revenue series 2009 bonds.

A bank robber didn't get the money he wanted from an Orlando bank teller. According to the Orange County Sheriffa s Office, on Friday November 20, 2009 at approximately 10:20 a.m., a black male suspect entered the First Florida Credit Union located at 3724 Edgewater Drive.

ABOARD AMTRAK AUTO TRAIN 52 TO WASHINGTON -- All aboard on this train doesn't mean just people.

Police are investigating a toll booth robbery. The Orlando Police Department reports that two men wearing ski masks drove up to a toll booth Monday morning, pointed guns at a worker and demanded money.

Orlando police said two teenagers, ages 15 and 17, went on a crime spree overnight that included the armed robbery of a convenience store.

Universal Orlando has been fined $3,750 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a result of the injury of an employee over the summer.

Special Olympics Florida is sponsoring a unique fundraiser based on the concept of our northern neighbors.

When Lisa Cook, a lecturer at the University of Central Florida, heads home to New Jersey for the holidays, she leaves behind a beloved family member: Stella, Cook's Australian cattle dog, boards at an Orlando veterinary hospital.

ORLANDO, Fla. --- A new name and a new partner---well known Italian restaurateur Donato Masrontoni---and a new family-style Italian menu has proved the winning combination for Mia Bella Scalini Family Restaurant in the Grand Oaks Village Shopping Center at 5106 Dr. Phillips Blvd. near Windermere in southwest Orlando.

SANFORD, Fla. --- Orlando Sanford International Airport is soliciting bids from qualified contractors to build a new 44,000 square foot tension membrane hangar and an attached 4,050 square foot office and 4000 square foot maintenance shop.

Diane Crews, vice president of administration at Orlando Sanford International Airport, said the airport is developing the hangar space to accommodate Avocet Capital LLC, which relocated its facilities from Opa-Locka Airport to Orlando Sanford International Airport in May. According to Crews, Avocet plans to employ more than 150 employees at the newly constructed facility.

ORLANDO, Fla., --- Plainvue Software, Inc., an independent video game studio based in Orlando, is expanding to offer publishers, virtual schools and digital text producers custom design of learning games for late elementary and middle school students.

SANFORD, Fla. --- The Sanford Airport Authority, which manages Orlando-Sanford International Airport, has re-elected Geof Longstaff to his fifth one-year term as chairman of the board of directors.

Longstaff is chairman of Mercantile Capital Corp. in Altamonte Springs, and is currently in his third term with the Airport Authority

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. --- In his formal announcement for Congress, Paul Partyka, former mayor of Winter Springs, told a packed house at the Winter Springs-Oviedo Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon that he is a candidate for the District 24 congressional seat now held by Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach.

Partyka, a Democrat, will challenge Kosmas in the party primary in 2010.