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Orlando Sentinel Evening Update Friday, May 24, 2024 | | |
| | Tribute to Pulse victims | New home insurance | Maxwell's ode to his cat | Foodies voting | | Local artist Jefrë's design will be unveiled June 12, the 8th anniversary of the tragedy. The sculpture would be the region's first tribute to the Pulse nightclub's legacy. | | | Ted Herbert, a retired business professor from Rollins College, said he was shocked when he got a letter last month from Progressive Insurance's home division telling him that while they valued him as a customer they would not be renewing his policy. "I checked to see why this was happening, thinking they thought my home was on the coast and subject to hurricanes or rising tide," said Herbert, whose home is less than 10 minutes away by car from the distinctive Spanish Mediterranean style campus in Winter Park. But to his surprise, not a single person made the […] | | | Maxwell: An ode to Leona. (And Furball.) Saying a painful goodbye to a pet who made a lot of cameos in this column | | | Orlando Sentinel's Foodie Awards has undergone a makeover and will appear quarterly, focusing on a smaller roster of categories each time. Vote now on the summer quarter entries! | | | A year after one Florida beach nabbed the top spot in the annual Dr. Beach Top 10 beaches in the U.S. list, two other Sunshine State strips of sand found their way onto the annual ranking. Caladesi Island State Park near Clearwater came in at No. 4 while Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park in Naples grabbed […] | | | Views of Tiana's Bayou Adventure —the reimagined former Splash Mountain ride in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World— as work continues Thursday, May 23, 2024, ahead of its planned June 28 opening in Bay Lake, Fla. The attraction's new theme is based on the Disney film "The Princess and The Frog." (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) […] | | | Glen Gilzean pledged to be "transparent, fair, and accessible" at his swearing-in as Orange County election supervisor on Friday. | | | The long-awaited Great Southern Box Co. Food Hall opens to the public Memorial Day Weekend with a roster of vendors that feature global flavors and American staple cuisine. | | | Along a rural road in east Seminole County sits an old bank vault, the last remaining relic of a long-vanished town called Osceola. | | | Orange County Public Schools prides itself on providing laptops to all students, an effort that started in 2013 and aimed to make sure everyone had access to technology no matter their family'… | | | In a rare move, a federal judge on Thursday appeared to reverse his own ruling blocking the enforcement across Florida of one of Gov. Ron DeSantis' major immigration policies that criminalizes anyo… | | | Crealdé School of Art recently completed a nearly half-million dollar renovation project with a new studios and space for youth art classes. | | | Eight people were taken to a hospital Friday morning after an airboat crashed in Kissimmee. There were 11 people on the boat and all were in stable condition, Osceola County Fire Rescue spokesperson Joshua Holder said. The crash took place in Lake Tohopekaliga when the boat struck a sandbar in a canal by Neptune Road […] | | | A Lake County judge has declared a woman accused of killing an elderly Mount Dora couple in 2022 incompetent to stand trial. | | | A man sentenced to death for killing an Orlando police officer in 2017 has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing a prosecutor misled jurors during sentencing proceedings. | | | |
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