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Five Orange County Public Schools students are packing their instruments for New York City this Thanksgiving after being selected to perform with the Macy's Great American Marching Band in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade next month. The group includes Jocelyn Watters, Noah Sidabutar and Zander Peetoom of Horizon High, Finley Hanebrink of West Orange High, and Noah Valle of Windermere High School.

Florida regulators have given SpaceX the green light to build its own natural gas pipeline across Brevard County, a project designed to feed the company's growing Starship operations at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The approval marks a significant shift in how SpaceX plans to keep its rockets fueled as launch cadence ramps up on the Space Coast.

Manatee Bay Elementary School — Site of Documented Measles Outbreak. A cartoonish, spot-covered character calling himself Mr. Measles showed up this week to cheer on lowered vaccination rates and more infections, a tongue-in-cheek stunt timed to a Florida Department of Health meeting in Lake Mary where state officials discussed dropping mandated student vaccines for four diseases. The campaign began in Washington, D.C., and the character appeared in Lake Mary this week.

Sebastian Danel Fernandez-Matayoshi, 24, of Orlando, has been charged with aggravated battery and burglary with battery after allegedly hitting a victim with a hammer at Jonesville Park in August; he is also facing charges from a January 2024 burglary. The post Orlando man charged with attacking victim with a hammer at Jonesville Park in August appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Public works officials in Osceola County are preparing for the possibility of heavy rain this weekend. Some residents are already reporting flooding in their neighborhoods after several days of rain. On Pleasant Hill Road, resident Diego Gonzalez said flooding is common at his property when storms...

Car buyers at an Orlando-based dealership group paid more than $3,350 above the advertised price, on average, the Federal Trade Commission alleges. The FTC’s complaint against Greenway Auto Group alleges that gap showed up in over 92 percent of its sales. Greenway has agreed to a proposed court order that would force it to show […]

APOPKA, Fla. – News 6 headed out to Heineger Lake near Apopka on Thursday, where a neighbor described the water levels as “abnormal.”. That neighbor told News 6 that she’s seen the water levels at the lake steadily rise over the past few days, largely thanks to the high volumes of rain that have swept through the region.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Some events and festivals have been canceled, postponed, or rescheduled in Central Florida as more rain is expected over the weekend, partly because of the far outer bands from Hurricane Isaias. List: Events canceled, rescheduled in Orlando. What we know:. Orlando Fire & Flavor Festival: Rescheduled to...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Every day, the U.S. loses about 2,000 acres of farm and ranchland, mostly due to encroaching urban development. But a growing trend has homeowners taking back some of that land through something called micro-farming. Just after 6 a.m. in Pine Hills, Sharea Harris is already...

In February 2014, a household in Okeechobee signed a contract with an electrical contractor to install a generator at their home. The price was about $30,000, and on the day of the contract the household paid a deposit of $18,102.50, a little more than half.