Allegiant Airlines passengers held on tarmac in Orlando and other top stories.

• Allegiant Airlines passengers held on tarmac in Orlando

  

  Three Allegiant Airlines flights to central Florida did not go as planned Saturday night. Flights from Knoxville, Tennessee, Asheville, North Carolina, and Elmira, New York, were diverted from Sanford-Orlando International Airport to Orlando International Airport.Passengers on two flights said their planes sat on the tarmac for hours. They said it was hot inside because the planes' engines were off. Allegiant did not comment on those allegations.Buses came to pick up passengers by 4 a.m. to ta..

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• Magic respond to Bulls' 3rd-quarter run and win 111-89

  

  When the Chicago Bulls' Jimmy Butler swished a jumper over Evan Fournier midway through the third quarter Saturday night, you could sense the game turning against the Orlando Magic.The Bulls opened the half with a 15-6 surge to cut the Magic's lead to 74-65. Scott Skiles called a timeout, and Fournier, Dewayne Dedmon, Aaron Gordon, Mario Hezonja and Elfrid Payton trudged to the bench while Skiles and his assistant coaches huddled on the court. Many fans inside Amway Center no doubt said to them..

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• Easter event in Orlando aims to help thousands of homeless

  

  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Thousands of homeless people in central Florida will be able to take showers and get haircuts at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando this weekend.An Easter-related event sponsored by former NFL defensive lineman Tim Johnson is being held at the Citrus Bowl on Sunday.Services being offered to the homeless at the He Got Up Orlando event include legal advice, job placement, job training, food and clothing.Portable showers also are being set up to accommodate 900 people and barbers will ..

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• Memo to Orlando Magic: Bring Dwight Howard back home

  

  If Dwight Howard wants to come home — if he honestly and genuinely wants to come home to the Orlando Magic — then Magic management should do everything in its power to make it happen.I can come up with numerous basketball and business reasons why the Magic should make this highly controversial move, but I'm simply going to defer to that astute NBA commentator Bob Dylan, who once famously sang: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."The Magic are stumbling to the end of the fourth seaso..

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• Deputies investigating possible murder-suicide in Orlando

  

  A man and woman are dead after a shooting in East Orlando Sunday morning, deputies say. According to Orange County Sheriff's Office, the incident may have been a murder-suicide. The man and woman, both 39 years old, were at home with their children on Pepin Drive before the shots were fired. It was unclear how many kids were in the residence at the time but an 11-year-old called deputies just after 9 a.m. They arrived to find the victims with gunshot wounds, according to Capt. Angelo Nieves..

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• Dwight Howard reportedly open to Orlando next season

  

  Updated at 12:52 p.m. ET Dwight Howard is exploring the idea of returning to Orlando next season. According to Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher, the soon-to-be free agent "has been seeking out whether the Magic would be open to that through back channels.” MORE: Ranking the free agents who will actually be available Bucher also cited unnamed sources as saying Plan A for the Rockets' big man is staying in Houston. No word on whether or not there’s mutual interest on the Magic’s part eit..

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