Orlando ranks last in housing options for low-income residents and other top stories.

• Orlando ranks last in housing options for low-income residents

  Metro Orlando, long considered an affordable housing market, has the nation's greatest shortage of rentals for extremely low-income tenants, a new study shows.Orlando, in a tie with Las Vegas, ranked worst nationally for availability of apartments that meet the needs of its most struggling group of renters, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The two tourist-driven economies – Orlando and Vegas — had only 15 affordable rentals available for every 100 extremely low-income ren..

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• Gov. Scott announces SquareTrade expansion in Orlando

  

  Gov. Scott announces SquareTrade expansion in Orlando Updated: Mar 28, 2016 - 10:29 AM ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday that SquareTrade, a protection plan, is expanding its second U.S. location in Orlando.   The company’s Orlando office already has 120 full-time employees and will reach a total of 180 by the end of the year. SquareTrade has also made more than $500,000 in capital investment in the ..

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• Deputies release IDs of man, woman dead in apparent murder-suicide

  

  Deputies have identified the man and woman found shot to death Sunday morning in an apparent murder-suicide as Gladys Rosario and Pedro Rosado, both 39.Detectives found the man and woman dead at a home on Pepin Drive in east Orange County after a child called 911 about 9:10 a.m. reporting a shooting, according to the Sheriff's Office. Several children were at the home when deputies arrived. None was injured, the Sheriff's Office said.Deputies haven't released much information about what led up ..

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• Orlando Station Sees 2 Depart

  

  Blaine Tolison (pictured right) is leaving and Steve Barrett (left) has left Orlando Cox-owned ABC affiliate WFTV. Orlando Sentinel media writer Hal Boedeker reports Tolison is staying within the Cox family and moving to Charlotte, N.C. to anchor mornings on WAXN and report for WSOC. Barrett left Friday and is moving to Minneapolis to be closer to his family. “I’ll miss it and I’ll be honest, it might be my last day ever on TV,” he wrote on Facebook on a page he called A Somber Goodbye. “… ehh..

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