Thursday, January 28, 2016

Carbon monoxide poisons Orlando family, condo building and other top stories.

  • Carbon monoxide poisons Orlando family, condo building

    Carbon monoxide poisons Orlando family, condo building
    Six people were taken to a local hospital early this morning with carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator left on inside an under-construction condominium complex, police say.Officials learned of the gas leak about 2:45 a.m. after a family of four drove themselves to a local hospital feeling ill. Doctors determined the family had carbon monoxide poisoning and alerted Orlando fire officials, who went to their home in a condo complex on Walden Circle to investigate, according to Orlando police..
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  • Orlando City sign midfielder Darwin Ceren to multi-year contract ...

    Orlando City sign midfielder Darwin Ceren to multi-year contract ...
    Orlando City have locked up one of their most important players from 2015 to a long-term deal, announcing on Thursday that they’ve re-signed midfielder Darwin Ceren to a two-year contract with an additional two-year option. Per league and club policy, further terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The 2015 Orlando City Players’ Player of the Year, CerĂ©n recorded two goals and two assists in 26 regular season appearances for the Lions last year. The 26-year-old Salvadoran international led OC..
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  • Florida Hospital, Orlando Health enjoy lucrative tax breaks even as ...

    Florida Hospital, Orlando Health enjoy lucrative tax breaks even as ...
    Even with their considerable political and business heft, Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld have faced the wrath of the tax man.Property appraisers have challenged the big theme parks over the years over whether they were paying their fair share. Elsewhere in America, elected officials have taken the same hard-line approach with hospitals.But Florida Hospital and Orlando Health, Central Florida's two largest hospital systems, appear immune from scrutiny. I couldn't find a sing..
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  • Slumping Orlando Magic aren't out of hope yet

    Slumping Orlando Magic aren't out of hope yet
    BOSTON — If the struggling Orlando Magic are searching for inspiration, they can find it here, in the city where they landed early Wednesday morning following another painful defeat.The Boston Celtics can offer them hope. Last season, the Celtics fell to 16-30 on Feb. 1, but they rallied, spurred by a deal at the trade deadline in which they acquired guard Isaiah Thomas. The Celtics posted a 24-12 record the remainder of the season and qualified for the playoffs.The Magic own a better record th..
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  • New evidence released in Orlando woman's slaying

    New evidence released in Orlando woman's slaying
    ORLANDO, Fla. - Investigators released chilling new video taken just hours before an Orlando woman was found dead inside her downtown apartment. The video was taken by surveillance cameras inside the Uptown Place apartment complex on Oct. 17. It shows security guard Steven Duxbury escorting Sasha Samsudean, 27, to and from the parking garage. Police say just minutes later, Duxbury raped and killed Samsudean inside her apartment. Prosecutors also released photos taken of the crime scene and pict..
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  • Sex assault on teen at Florida prison spurs federal lawsuit

    Sex assault on teen at Florida prison spurs federal lawsuit
    Half a dozen inmates hiding in the showers at Sumter Correctional Institution surrounded a 17-year-old on the morning of July 24, 2013.For the next 30 minutes, the band of prisoners choked, slapped and stabbed the juvenile more than 100 times with sharpened pieces of barbed-wire broken from a fence. The attackers finished by pushing a broom handle into the juvenile's rectum, sexually battering him after he had lost consciousness.All the while, an officer with the Florida Department of Correctio..
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  • Monarchs win first of three in Orlando

    Monarchs win first of three in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla. — Colin Stevens stopped all 25 shots he faced to earn the shutout as the Manchester Monarchs blanked the Orlando Solar Bears, 3-0, in the first meeting of a three-game series Wednesday night at the Amway Center.With the win, the Monarchs (26-12-1-4) beat the Solar Bears (17-17-2-3) for the first time in franchise history, and added to their division lead over idle Adirondack.Danick Paquette started the Monarchs’ scoring, netting his sixth g..
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  • Officials consider train from New Orleans to Orlando

    Officials consider train from New Orleans to Orlando
    Home Officials consider train from New Orleans to Orlando ORLANDO - Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission are conducting a tour along the Gulf Coast to consider the feasibility of bringing passenger rail back to the Gulf Coast, more than a decade after Hurricane Katrina damaged the tracks.   The Southern Rail Commission announced recently that the so-called "Inspection Train" will include 14 stops in four states, beginning Feb. 18 in New Orleans and concluding the next day in Jackso..
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  • Orlando finishes 2015 among top 5 cities with the most underwater ...

    Orlando finishes 2015 among top 5 cities with the most underwater ...
    Orlando had the fifth-highest share of seriously underwater properties as of the end of 2015 at 22.2 percent, according to RealtyTrac. Seriously underwater ...
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  • Zika virus: What Central Floridians need to know

    Zika virus: What Central Floridians need to know
    With the Zika virus now in more than 20 countries and territories in the Americas, health officials say it's only a matter of time before it spreads in the United States.There have already been more than a dozen confirmed cases in the United States, three of them in Florida, but they have all been among international travelers and not acquired here. Central Florida could be particularly vulnerable. More than 5 million international visitors came here in 2014, according to data from Visit Orland..
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