Orlando

State wants to take sin out of film incentive

By at 15 March, 2010, 10:50 am

Once they were gay. Or homosexual. Occasionally they turned up as same-sex couples. This week in Tallahassee, that particular category of humanity received a new, slightly clunkier designation. Call them practitioners of “non-traditional family values.” The terminology surfaced in Read More

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Six inmates brew booze in their cells

By admin at 15 March, 2010, 7:24 am

They wanted to be rockin’ at this jailhouse. Deputies said six enterprising inmates at the Osceola County Jail brewed homemade alcohol using fruit they hoarded and fermented within their cell walls, the Orlando Sentinel reports. A corrections officer noticed an 18-inch section of chain-link Read More

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Florida education news: school civics lessons, national standards, math lessons and more

By at 15 March, 2010, 6:17 am

GEORGE WHO? A growing number of Florida lawmakers think schoolchildren need to know more about American civics , the Orlando Sentinel reports. AN 'ABOMINATION': Collier and Lee school officials blast proposals to change teacher evaluations, pay and contracts, the Naples Daily News Read More

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New papers: Tiger Woods had pain pills before Thanksgiving crash; Domestic violence cited

By at 12 March, 2010, 3:54 pm

Woods (Click on the photo for more) According to new documents released in the Thanksgiving car crash that eventually brought golf prodigy Tiger Woods back down to earth, Woods’ wife handed ambulance personnel two bottles of pain medicine which she told them Woods took earlier in the day. Read More

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Filming "Mayberry, Florida"

By Beach Blogger at 10 March, 2010, 2:50 pm

State representative Stephen Precourt (R-Orlando) has proposed using state tax dollars to promote the production of “family-friendly” movies and television productions . No surprise there. Republican office holders all across the nation are scrambling for ways to suck up to the Read More

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Cops: Sex offender caught prowling on ladder

By at 10 March, 2010, 8:10 am

Two young women were about to go to sleep when they heard a loud thump outside their second floor Orlando apartment window. One of the women peered through the blinds and saw a man standing on a ladder, trying to climb onto their balcony, reports the Orlando Sentinel . The man, later identified Read More

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Florida education news: Teacher evaluation, school discipline, class size and more

By Beach Blogger at 10 March, 2010, 7:17 am

NO MORE EXCUSES: Pinellas leaders begin reassigning disruptive students out of John Hopkins Middle and adding more staff to the troubled school. Disciplinary issues continued through February. The Uhurus plan to protest at the school. (Times photo, Melissa Lyttle) PEER REVIEW: Hillsborough Read More

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Charlie Crist and the politics of back waxing

By at 9 March, 2010, 7:45 pm

The race for the Republican Senate seat in Florida is getting to be a real hair raiser. When Governor Charlie Crist took a stab at Marco Rubio, his opponent, on Greta Van Susteren’s show “On The Record,” he did not wax eloquently. Crist told Van Susteren, “It has come out in news accounts Read More

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