Thursday, August 24, 2017

Memory of Orlando felt during Pride Week and other top stories.

  • Memory of Orlando felt during Pride Week

    Memory of Orlando felt during Pride Week
    Beth Waters, For the Sun-News Published 5:05 p.m. MT June 17, 2017 | Updated 14 hours agoCLOSE Hundreds of people in Orlando, Florida, are remembering the victims who were killed a year ago at Pulse nightclub, honoring them with songs, prayers and flowers while celebrating their lives. (June 12) APBuy PhotoViolet Jaure, 3, shelters under an enormous gay-pride rainbow umbrella, while attending Las Cruces Pride Week activities Saturday June 17, 2017.(Photo: Beth ..
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  • When the Orlando Magic traded the top overall pick

    When the Orlando Magic traded the top overall pick
    In the 1993 Draft, the Orlando Magic shocked the NBA when they traded the top overall pick to select Anfernee Hardaway, building the seeds of a Finals run.As if it were a starting gun to the weekend and the crazy draft week that is ahead, the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers began to send the NBA rumor mill into an overdrive.The position the Celtics were in is a relatively unique one for the NBA. It is rare a team that just made the Eastern Conference Finals is taking one of the top picks i..
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  • Suspect took trooper's gun, shot nurse inside Ocala hospital, officials ...

    Suspect took trooper's gun, shot nurse inside Ocala hospital, officials ...
    A nurse was shot Saturday inside an Ocala hospital after a suspect stole a trooper’s gun and opened fire, officials said.It all happened after troopers found a man walking near mile marker 341 on Interstate 75, said highway patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan.The troopers had three “encounters” with him that afternoon and on the third, the suspect asked to be taken to a hospital because he was “ill,” Riordan said at a Saturday evening press conference.He was taken to West Marion Community Hospital at 46..
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  • Louisiana's LGBT community pays tribute to Orlando shooting ...

    Louisiana's LGBT community pays tribute to Orlando shooting ...
    It's been seven years since Livingston Parish native Cody Mack lived in Orlando, but the terrors of the Pulse nightclub shooting a year ago still haunt him.Mack moved to the Florida city from Louisiana shortly after graduating from high school in 2008. He called Orlando home for three years before returning to Baton Rouge sometime in 2010.The relationships he maintains in that city are still strong. It's where he spent past nights at Pulse, dancing with friends as he developed his identity. It'..
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  • Rain chances to increase in time for Father's Day

    Rain chances to increase in time for Father's Day
    ORLANDO, Fla. - A weather pattern similar to Saturday's is expected for Father's Day.Rain, sometimes heavy, pushed its way across Central Florida Saturday. The weather pattern is expected to remain the same Sunday, causing another high chance of rain.Overnight Saturday, the rain will end, but the clouds will linger. Lows will drop to 73 degrees in Holly Hill and Titusville, and 74 degrees in Orlando.On Father's Day, rain chances will jump back up to 50 percent with some gusty winds, heavy downp..
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  • David Villa rallies NYCFC to win over Sounders; wild Orlando ...

    David Villa rallies NYCFC to win over Sounders; wild Orlando ...
    David Villa scored his 50th and 51st career MLS goals to help New York City FC rally to beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 at a rain-soaked Yankee Stadium on Saturday.Christian Roldan gave the Sounders the lead with a fine finish in the 40th minute, just as the rainfall began to make play difficult. Passes along the ground soon became impossible as the ball stopped in puddles, but Villa still managed to take control and hit the crossbar in first-half stoppage time.The former Spain striker then equal..
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  • Asian Sun earns 13 medals in Orlando

    Asian Sun earns 13 medals in Orlando Staff Report Published: June 18, 2017 12:00 AM 1 of 1 Photos | View More PhotosMembers of the Asian Sun Martial Arts Team brought home 13 medals from their showing at the American Tae Kwon Do Union National Championships May 27 in Orlando. The team members competed in the World Class division, athletes ranging from 11 to 45 years old. "I'm extremely happy and proud with the outcome of this tournament," said head coach Grandmaster Ryan Andrachik, owner ..
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  • Orlando wins amateur golf championship

    Orlando wins amateur golf championship
    Staff report PHILADELPHIA — Grant Skyllas was no match for Cathedral Prep graduate Gregor Orlando in Saturday's match play finale for the 117th BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship.Orlando, a former PIAA individual and team champion with the Ramblers, never trailed the duo's scheduled 36-hole match play final at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. The 26-year old insurance agent recorded an easy 9-and-8 victory on the club's par-70 Wissahickon Course.Orlando, who was seeded 13th, took a..
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  • How Orlando City's stadium design has given the club a leg up in MLS

    How Orlando City's stadium design has given the club a leg up in MLS
    ORLANDO – As soon as it showed up on television, his phone started ringing.“We thought it was going to be good,” says Bruce Miller, a soccer stadium architect, “but then you see Opening Day and you feel it. You see it on TV. When you’re there, you feel the energy. I knew it had worked.”It was a first-of-its-kind design in the United States – a 3,800-capacity safe standing area in the new Orlando City Stadium, which opened this year. Miller’s firm, Populous, had designed it and now he says there ..
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  • Orlando City disappointed by Cyle Larin DUI, but ready to offer support

    Orlando City disappointed by Cyle Larin DUI, but ready to offer support
    ORLANDO, Fla.- Orlando City head coach Jason Kreis on Friday indicated that while the team was “disappointed” in the actions of Cyle Larin in the wake of the young striker’s DUI arrest this week, they will take “a family approach” and be fully supportive as he goes through the league-mandated protocols. Larin was admitted to the league’s Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health (SABH) program on Thursday and he will not be eligible to participate in any competition or team activity until his SABH..
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