Orlando Magic players promote reading at ‘Pick, Read and Roll’ event

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/20 8:31A Steven Walker

The Orlando Magic basketball season tips off Wednesday night, but Kia Center was already filled with thousands of cheering, screaming fans Monday morning as Orange County Public Schools students...

Florida offers test site for flying cabs in Polk County

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/20 6:50A Jim Turner

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Transportation Secretary Jared Perdue hope to land the next generation of air transport companies at a testing facility in Central Florida. Perdue for years has championed advanced air mobility, which...

Monday has temperatures in the 80s with lights winds to the north

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/20 2:27A Garfield Hylton

Monday is expected to be mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-80s. There is a high risk of life-threatening rip currents at all area beaches, according to NWS Melbourne. Small craft should exercise caution over Atlantic waters offshore from...

Orlando District 3: Five candidates vie for open council seat

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/20 12:00A Ryan Gillespie

For the first time in nearly 20 years, Orlando s city council District 3 will have a new commissioner. Longtime commissioner Robert Stuart, first elected in 2006, is retiring and a slew of contenders are vying for the seat: Samuel Chambers, Roger...

Ocoee mom badly injured by a ‘sweet’ cow at daughter’s wedding

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/20 12:00A Silas Morgan

Cassie Costantine spent the past 10 months tirelessly planning a wedding for her daughter Rose, who got engaged on Christmas Eve. After contacting dozens of venues, the Ocoee woman found a perfect one...

Longtime Orlando attraction to close in 2 weeks, while another reopens

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/19 11:00P Matthew J. Palm

After a 35-year run of dishing out murder along with dinner, Sleuths Mystery Dinner Shows announced this weekend it will close its International Drive theater for good on Nov. 4 We loved providing...

Take a hike: 15 trails to explore this fall in Central Florida

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/19 11:00P Patrick Connolly

While the changing seasons in northern states are marked by the changing vibrant reds, burnt oranges and golden yellow leaves, Florida s fall season is noted by temperatures that are actually bearable...

Kissimmee man dies in car crash in Osceola County, FHP says

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/19 10:46A Natalia Jaramillo

A 47-year-old man died in a crash late Saturday on Southport Road in Osceola County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Just before 9:30 p.m. the man from Kissimmee was travelling westbound on Southport Road approaching Hunt Road in a 2014...

The smoke and mirrors behind Kissimmee’s Magic Development

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/19 1:00A Laura Kinsler

The founders of Magic Development promised to bring high design, sexy architecture and a world-famous luxury brand to Kissimmee’s W192 corridor. But in the end, it was a magic show, based on illusion...

How a transformative change in charter school rules came back from the dead and became Florida law

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/19 12:00A Anthony Man

A new Florida law allowing select charter school operators to set up their programs within the walls of traditional public schools, rent free, is a lesson in power, politics, money — and how the three...

In Orlando theme parks, animatronics increase in number — and in realism

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/18 1:05A Dewayne Bevil

Mechanical birds, bears and princesses have chirped, growled and sung in Orlando’s theme parks for more than 50 years. The animatronic trend shows no signs of fading, as new figures arrive in new...

Tiki birds, Big Al and beyond: A tour of 10 Disney World animatronics

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/18 1:00A Dewayne Bevil

There have been hundreds of animatronic figures scattered across Walt Disney World over the past 54 years. Here are 10 notable ones that can be spied its theme parks in 2025. • Country Bears Musical...

A traffic stop, 96 days in detention, Uruguay: A Central Florida man’s deportation

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/18 1:00A Natalia Jaramillo

For 96 days he was held inside detention centers in Florida and Texas after his April arrest in a Central Florida traffic stop. Jose Luis lost nearly 30 pounds and grew increasingly depressed amid his long stints at some of the nation s most...

‘Some days it can be really bad’: Sanford works to fix the downtown stench

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/18 1:00A Martin E. Comas

For months, Sanford residents have griped about an awful stench — think spoiled eggs and raw sewage — that has permeated the downtown district and made it almost impossible to breathe without a wince. “Sometimes it smells like a big pile of fish...

Why do Central Florida’s super speeders drive 100+? Here’s what they told police

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 10/18 1:00A Stephen Hudak

Florida s new super speeder law, intended to slow dangerous drivers, has demonstrated that some lead-footed motorists ought to practice their excuses. Like the guy driving 100-mph-plus through Orange County to make it to a birthday party on time,...