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ALTAMONTE, Fla. – Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Altamonte Springs resident Dave Heine to the Florida Board of Acupuncture.

Heine, 58, is the owner of Timeshare Escrow and Title, LLC, and Land Title of Florida, LLC. He fills a vacant seat and is appointed for a term that ends Oct. 31, 2020.

Heine, 58, is the owner of Timeshare Escrow and Title, LLC, and Land Title of Florida, LLC. He fills a vacant seat and is appointed for a term that ends Oct. 31, 2020.

PALM COAST, Fla. -- Bill Smith, owner of WT Smith Personal Financial Services, LLC, has joined the team at Alliance Financial Partners, Inc.
 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The magical figure of 100,000 Biketoberfest participants for the 25th anniversary is not real. It's fake news. 

All too real is the carnage as in dead bikers. 

The numbers of bikers for the four-day motorcycycle may approach 50,000 participants, if the weather holds up. Among the dead

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- The Seminole County School district has seen a dramatic spike in student enrollment in the past couple of weeks.

Dramatic enough to fill the equivalent of three classrooms, district officials say. The sudden influx comes from families leaving Puerto Rico, many of them to Central Florida since the massive devastation from Hurricane Maria.   

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The Tomoka Landfill and West Volusia Transfer Station will resume normal operating hours beginning Saturday, Oct. 14.

DELTONA, Fla. -- Zenaida Denizac has raised $5,780 in the past 12 days for relief aid to her brethren in her hometown of Mayaquez, Puerto Rico.

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Some two dozen students, teachers and staffers joined Seminole County School Board Chairwoman Amy Lockhart in receiving, sorting and packing disaster relief supplies for Puerto Rici brought in by countless citizens last Friday and Saturday in a large bay on district property at 239 Rinehart Road.

Most of the items were loaded into three larget U-Haul trucks and transported by plane Tuesday from Orlando-Sanford International Airport to San Juan. The equivalent of a truckload remained behind forr the expected arrival of serveral thousand Puerto Rican families in Central Florida over the next few weeks and months, said Lockharrt and school leaders from other school districts along the I-4 corridor, including Osceola, Orange and Volusia counties.