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Lanarkshire teenager is full of cheer after helping national team to medal place at world championships

Dalziel High pupil Eden Durrand was one of 3000 cheerleading athletes from around the globe competing in Orlando.

Daily Record

DeSantis orders flags at half-staff for Pulse victims as scrutiny from LGBTQ community increases

ORLANDO, Fla. — To commemorate the six-year remembrance of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub massacre, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a proclamation ordering flags at all local and state buildings to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday.

Orlando Sentinel

UCF settles on $18 million buyout, will start Big 12 competition in 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. — Nine months after accepting an invitation to the Big 12 Conference, UCF athletics director Terry Mohajir celebrated the program’s final hurdle by announcing the school would be joining the Power Five league in time for the 2023 football season.

Orlando Sentinel

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Sick details emerge after waitress saves boy, 11, from parents' abuse with secret sign

Flaviane Carvalho was serving the family of the accused at her restaurant Mrs Potato in Orange County, Orlando, Florida when she noticed parents Timothy Lee Wilson and Kristen Swann treating one son differently

Daily Mirror

International travel still lags amid COVID, inflation and gun worries

International tourists are gradually returning to Florida and the rest of the United States, but some potential travelers aren’t booking vacations because of COVID testing requirements, inflation and gun violence, experts at a travel trade show in Orlando said this week.

Orlando Sentinel

Jabari Smith’s pre-draft workout helped him see how he could fit with Magic

ORLANDO, Fla. — A little after noon on Thursday, Jabari Smith and Orlando Magic coach Jamahl Mosley gave each other a fist bump at the AdventHealth Practice Facility inside Amway Center.

Orlando Sentinel

5 Haiti soccer players and their coach vanished from Special Olympics in Florida

MIAMI — They turned in their room keys and left behind their suitcases and other personal belongings. Why five Haitian soccer players and their coach decided to vanish while participating in the 2022 Special Olympics Games in Orlando remains a puzzling mystery.

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With latest liftoff, SpaceX on track for a record 52 launches this year

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX made its 23rd launch of 2022 on Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Egyptian company Nilesat’s communications satellite to orbit.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida deputies search for missing Haitian Special Olympics soccer team members

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the disappearance of several members of the Haitian Special Olympics soccer team participating in this year’s USA Games.

Orlando Sentinel

10-year-old girl who shot woman is arrested on murder charge, Orlando police say

ORLANDO, Fla. — The 10-year-old girl who last week shot and killed a woman who was fighting with her mother was arrested Tuesday on a second-degree murder charge, the Orlando Police Department announced Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

A mother is arrested after police say her 2-year-old shot her husband

Investigators had initially suspected a death by suicide in the east Orlando, Fla., case. Then a five-year-old said his brother had shot his dad.

WEKU

NASA Artemis I moon rocket rolls back to Kennedy Space Center launch pad

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA has sent the Artemis I rocket back to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center for testing later this month, looking to get back on track for a potential moon launch as early as August.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida Gov. DeSantis seeks control over universities, targeting tenure and ‘politicized’ classes

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Republican allies are seeking more influence in university classrooms, targeting tenure, waging a battle against “politicized” courses and contemplating a significant change in how professors are hired across the state.

Orlando Sentinel

2-year-old fatally shot dad after finding ‘easily accessible’ gun, Florida sheriff says

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 2-year-old boy shot and killed his father at their east Orange County home last month, Sheriff John Mina said Monday.

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UCF researchers tapped again for NASA moon mission, set to explore mysterious domes

ORLANDO, Fla. — A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida will be exploring an unknown and mysterious region of the moon.

Orlando Sentinel

Democratic congressional candidate confronts DeSantis about gun violence

ORLANDO, Fla. — Democratic congressional candidate Maxwell Frost confronted Gov. Ron DeSantis about gun violence at an event in Orlando Thursday night, but the governor said, “Nobody wants to hear from you” as security removed Frost.

Orlando Sentinel

Special Olympics drops COVID vaccine mandate after Florida threatens $27.5 million fine

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida threatened to fine the Special Olympics $27.5 million for requiring 5,500 participants at this weekend’s USA Games in Orlando to be vaccinated against COVID, prompting the organization to drop the mandate.

Daily Mirror

Terrifying square off between alligator and shark captured by gobsmacked fisherman

David Zinn was fishing with his stepfather in Florida, off the coast of Port St.Lucie, south west of Orlando, when he felt a strong pull on his line before attempting to remove the hook when a gator lunged from the water

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Benzinga

mPhase Lists Initial EV Charging Locations In Florida Amid Intensifying EV Rivalry

mPhase Technologies, Inc (OTC: XDSL) completed selecting sites for the first five mPower EV charging locations in the State of Florida. The sites consisted of two gas stations, two supermarkets, and one deli property. The initial locations for the sites were in Fort Myers, Orlando, Palm Bay, Palm Coast, and Scottsmoor. The sites will…

Benzinga

Gay Days Returns To Disney's Orlando Venues

After a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) has reintroduced the Gay Days festivities at its Orlando theme parks, with events beginning today and running through June 5.

Orlando Sentinel

Gay Days returns to Disney World amid ‘don’t say gay’ controversy

ORLANDO, Fla. — After a three-year coronavirus-induced hiatus, Gay Days returns to Orlando today as Pride Month begins nationwide and debate continues over the Florida’s so-called “don’t say gay” law.

Orlando Sentinel

Where no ice was seen before: Team designs lunar satellite tools to hunt for water

ORLANDO, Fla. -- When Kerri Donaldson Hanna looks at the full moon she sees a future full of opportunity.

Orlando Sentinel

'God’s gift to lawyers': DeSantis' culture war laws get him sued a lot

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t had any problem pushing his firebrand conservative agenda through the Florida Legislature, scoring national headlines that have propelled him to the top of potential GOP contenders for president in 2024.

Orlando Sentinel

Orlando police: 10-year-old girl shot, killed woman after fight

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando police say a 10-year-old girl was taken into custody Monday night after she shot and killed a woman following a fight involving the child’s mother.

Orlando Sentinel

Odds increase for first tropical storm in Atlantic Ocean this week

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center in Miami on Monday increased the odds of tropical development in the Atlantic Ocean over the next five days to 40%.

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