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Letters to the editor: compassionate cruise line, student debt, and Kiera Wilmot
At a time when so many cruise lines are being villified — some deservedly — I would like to voice my experience with the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Lines. On April 28, on the first day of our planned cruise on the Caribbean, my...Tags: Human Interest, Orlando, Memorial Day, Tour Operations Industry, Marketing
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Zero-tolerance policies are needlessly criminalizing kids
When Kiera Wilmot curiously mixed toilet-bowl cleaner with aluminum foil near her school gazebo last month, she did not imagine the experiment would end in adult felony charges. The 16-year old Polk County girl was a good student with an exemplary...Tags: Florida State University, Police Arrests, Teaching and Learning, Students, NAACP
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Florida jobless rate dips to 7.2 percent in April
Florida's unemployment rate continues to fall, dipping from 7.5 percent in March to 7.2 percent in April — the lowest level in five years. Metro Orlando's jobless rate also improved, falling to 6.4 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage...
Tags: Rick Scott, Executive Branch, Employment, Orlando, Government
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Kiera Wilmot already paid too high price for science experiment
Kiera Wilmot was handcuffed at her high school, hustled into the back of a police car and taken to jail for something that should have sent her to a few days of after-school detention. If common sense prevailed over draconian codes of conduct in Florida...
Tags: Police Arrests, New York City, Students, Teaching and Learning, Prisons
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Free Kiera Wilmot as Florida confuses scientific aspirations with criminal intent
“Free Kiera Wilmot.” Let me get this straight: A 16 year-old girl participating in her school’s science project gets arrested after she mixes toilet bowl cleaner and pieces of aluminum foil in a water bottle that explodes. Nothing...Tags: Rick Scott, Science and Technology, Science, Laws, Criminals
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Armed prostitution suspects arrested after posting photos with attack weapons on Facebook
Two Central Florida women who were snared in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social-media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Felons Brittany Dodd, 25, of Lakeland and Maylee...
Tags: Adam Lanza, Theft, Trials, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sex Crimes
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Cops: Prostitutes arrested after bragging about guns on social media
Two women who were arrested in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Brittany Dodd, 25, of Lakeland and Maylee Rossi, 27, of Davenport...Tags: Police Arrests, Grady Judd, Sex Crimes, Prostitution, Polk County Sheriff's Office
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Nan Rich, long shot for governor, says she's undeterred
In her dark-horse campaign to become Florida's next governor, former state Sen. Nan Rich likes to recall the stories of Democratic political legends Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles and Bob Graham. Each was a little-known state senator when he launched his...
Tags: Rick Scott, Executive Branch, Gun Control, Northwood University, Regional Authority
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Betty Chandler, Eccleston's 'heart,' helps school usher in a new era
The faces painted high on the walls in Eccleston Elementary's library are like old friends to Betty Chandler, Orange County schools' longest-serving employee. She helped establish the library, then came back to run it for more than 35 years. When...
Tags: Anglicanism, Students, Teaching and Learning, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Marvine-Pembroke shooting suspect to face attempted homicide charge
Before the brawl at Bethlehem's Marvine-Pembroke housing development in January, one man pulled a knife. The other pulled a handgun. The guy with the blade sat in the witness chair on Monday. The guy with the gun, accused of attempted murder, was in a...Tags: Shootings, Court Preliminary, Trials, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Murder
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One dry April long ago, the rainmaker sat by Sand Lake
During another April many years ago in Orlando, Dr. Philip Phillips brought the rainmaker to town. It was 1939, and dark war clouds loomed over Europe, but the real sky remained bright over Central Florida. That meant waterless, worrisome weather for...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Orange County (Florida), Orlando, Tampa, Orange County Regional History Center
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Five science whiz kids compete for top prize this weekend
Five Central Florida students who've already won top awards at county and state science fairs will compete this weekend in the Dr. Nelson Ying Science Competition. The five competing for the "Ying Prize" will explain their research to a panel of judges ...Tags: Satellite Beach, Agriculture, Brevard County, Agricultural Research and Technology, Science and Technology
May 19, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 19, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 17, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 15, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 15, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 15, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 15, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 28, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 25, 2013
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