Winter Park News

WHAT : If you needed another reason to love this time of year, here are several: the return of free Friday nights at the Morse Museum in Winter Park , along with the museum's much loved Christmas in the Park event, now in its 31st year, and its annual free admission day on Christmas Eve.

A new study by the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership ranks metropolitan Orlando the most dangerous for pedestrians in the nation.

Here's an audition notice for Dog Sees God at Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park: The Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park will hold auditions for its upcoming production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead , a comedy by Bert V. Royal.

Tonyia Sayre-Gibbons never knew her father, who died in World War II 's Battle of the Bulge almost 65 years ago.

Today on the Streetsblog Network , we've got a powerful demand for safer streets in Florida.

Here's another big-ticket raffle at a local theater, to help pay for Winter Park Playhouse's educational outreach show: Herea s your chance to give back to the community and win fabulous prizes!! The Winter Park Playhousea s First Annual Raffle The Winter Park Playhouse is Central Floridaa s only professional musical theatre.

At the Virgin Olive today, Felicia Deal of Winter Park stopped by with these two kittens who were left on her doorstep.

If you'd like to have your say on the House Democrats' health care reform plan, you'll have a chance Tuesday night during a telephone town hall.

Metro Orlando 's toll-road agency is more open than it used to be but still needs to improve the way it deals with the public, a consultant who reviewed the authority's inner workings has decided.

The night Sam Stiverson was shot to death trying to fight off a gang of robbers, Juan-Enrique Romero was 16.

Two for tea The Japan Craze and Western Art 1880-1920, through Aug. 8, 2010, at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park 407-645-5311 www.morsemuseum.org $3 A century ago, American artists and designers were reveling in the newfound aesthetics of world cultures, and one of the most fervent 'crazes' was for ...

Firefighters put out a small fire at a McDonald's restaurant in Maitland this morning.

Winter Park Police are investigating an attempted robbery and stabbing that happened along Park Avenue Saturday night.

Captain David Heinke asks the question: 'Why bother with Pamplona when the bulls have been running right here in Apalachicola'? Bull redfish from 12 to 25 pounds have been common, with a few even bigger ones taken.

I n 1999, 310 Park South opened in Winter Park. Comfy and relaxed, it slightly channels Harrigan's, its back-in-the-day predecessor on the block.

Nature Publishing Group , the publisher of Scientific American , is not backing down in response to complaints about the timing and extent of new subscription pricing, which treats the well-respected consumer publication - which experienced no price change for years - like an STM publication.

Share + Oct 25, 2009 7:54 am US/Eastern WINTER PARK A central Florida man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman over a five area period was gunned down by a Seminole County deputy sheriff after he pointed a rifle at him.

Authorities said a man suspected of holding a woman against her will for five hours and sexually assaulting her was fatally shot by a Seminole County deputy sheriff who fired when the man pointed a rifle at him.

Share + Oct 24, 2009 11:39 am US/Eastern WINTER PARK, Fla. A man was killed and four others were shot during a home invasion in central Florida.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Department and FDLE investigates an officer involved shooting in the 600 block of Lake Howell Lane, near Winter Park on Saturday, October 24, 2009.