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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.

Authorities said one person was killed while four others were injured in a home invasion in Winter Park on Friday.

While some of the soaring optimism of Election Day has tempered, more than six in 10 Americans predict in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll that Barack Obama's presidency will improve race relations in the United States in the years ahead.

While navigating one of the most traffic-challenged cities in the country, UPS tractor-trailer driver Virginia "Ginny" Odom has logged more than 3.5 million accident-free miles and today marks her 35th year of safe driving - tops among female UPS drivers worldwide.

Orange County Commissioner Bill Segal increased his already big fund-raising lead over a trio of other 2010 county mayor contenders in the most-recent campaign reports, and now sits atop a whopping total of $324,000 in cash on hand .

The doors hadn't opened, but hundreds of people had already lined up outside the Lake Howell High School cafeteria for a shot at getting the scarce H1N1 vaccine .

The owners of a traditional Brazilian steakhouse in the tourist corridor plan to introduce their second Central Florida location and third overall.

A new "kid" at school caused some commotion Tuesday at Lakemont Elementary in Winter Park, when a goat wandered onto the playground after school.

Magazine is part of Nature Publishing Group's 'new consumer media division' Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 10/13/2009 Shift in management in June Price increase from $39.95 to $299 in print Protest by Oberlin Group libraries Will other consumer magazines follow trend? In June, Scientific American was integrated into the Nature Publishing Group , ...