Feeling Andy Rooneyish at home in Edgewater with divisiveness in Washington
EDGEWATER, Fla. -- I’m feeling a little Andy Rooneyish today.
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Lake Mary HS student & relief aid volunteer Christina Cardona: No quick fix for Puerto Rico
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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.
Tomoka Landfill, just west of Daytona near Port Orange, & West Volusia Transfer Station in DeLand will resume normal operating hours Saturday
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The Tomoka Landfill and West Volusia Transfer Station will resume normal operating hours beginning Saturday, Oct. 14.
Zenaida Denizac of Deltona uses social media to solicit revenue for Hurricane Maria-devastated Mayaguez, Puerto Rico where she's from
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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.
Seminole schools collecting relief supplies for Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico & islanders relocating to greater Sanford-Lake Mary and other areas of the county
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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.
Post-Hurricane Irma: Daytona's homeless front & center
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Within 36 hours of Hurricane Irma's blast through Daytona Beach, with many of the tourist-destination's traffic lights still out, motorists started venturing out and the homeless panhandlers were already in place at nearly every major intersection to greet them.
Orlando brother of Las Vegas gunman reacts to mass murder
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- WFTV's Nancy Alvarez spoke with the Orlando-area brother of the gunman responsible for the largest mass murder shooting in US history.e
UPDATED: Las Vegas cops: Gunman from 32nd hotel floor opens fire on country music fans at outdoor concert; at least 58 killed, surpassing Orlando's Pulse shooting massacre
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Fifteen months after the Pulse nightclub massacre here in Orlando, a lone gunman overnight in Las Vegas opened fire from a 32nd floor balcony of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into the crowd at an outdoor country music concert during a closing performance by Jason Aldean, killing at least 58 and injuring 500-plus others.
We are all Americans
SANFORD, Fla. -- This has been a very trying week for my wife, Sera King-Frederick, as she has a very large family in Puerto Rico, spread out throughout the commonwealth.
City of DeLand honors Clerk of Court Laura Roth with proclamation for contributing to betterment of Spring Hill community
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DELAND, Fla. -- When crack cocaine first hit the streets in the mid-1980s, an already-impoverisherd and historically black community by the name of Spring Hill outside the DeLand city limits had become a major drug den for the better part of the next two decades -- its poor and law abiding citizens caught in the cross fire between rival drug dealers.
