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Kaylyn Martin and her best friend had rented movies in the University of Central Florida library and grabbed a bite to eat when - as they were walking through a campus parking garage - a black car with its headlights off came screeching toward them.

Penguins acclimate to their new habitat at the "Antarctica: Empire of the Penguins" attraction, during an Orlando Sentinel exclusive first-look preview, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Tom Sawyer shares adventures with Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." WHAT: This weekend is the last to see "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," the final show in Orlando Repertory Theatre's 10th season.

Instruments made of PVC pipes are a staple of Blue Man performances and included in the Orlando Science Center "Blue Man Group -- Making Waves." "Blue Man Group -- Making Waves" is a 1,500-square-foot traveling exhibit that's designed to merge science and art through an exploration of sound.

And if you're still wondering who got pre-sale access to the show the first shot at good seats and the coveted right to pay face-value to tickets well, keep on wondering.

Orlando, Orange and Seminole counties could be on the hook at least a little bit for up to $1.5 billion that a private company would need to build four toll lanes on Interstate 4 through the heart of Metro Orlando.

Gas prices throughout the Southeast remained relatively stable, with averages for a gallon of regular gasoline in Orlando and statewide falling 1 cent, AAA reports.

An attorney for Stephen L. Meininger, the Chapter 7 trustee, on Monday filed a motion asking that the court force her to give him the laptop.

Orlando made it tougher for sex offenders to find a place to live Monday, expanding a buffer zone around schools and other places where children congregate.

Shortly after Princeton Bryan's second birthday, he woke up one morning with a swollen eye.

Paul Strickland and Chase Padgett combine their talents in a mash up of funny songs and stories sure to entertain the traveling artist in all of our hearts.

Rafael Zaldivar, father of a man slain in the Ocoee witness killings, protests discipline of Orange County home-confinement employees at the Orange County Jail on Monday, May 20, 2013.

That's the question posed by the eight stories that make up "Circle," a daisy chain that starts with a philandering husband uncertain about his own sexuality and leads through seven other tangentially related tales back to a surprising place in the original story.

It's the way her eyes widen as she contemplates the horror of the Neti pot, a form of nasal irrigation to help relieve allergies .

The Downtowners, a senior-citizen choral ensemble from Orlando Lutheran Towers, return to Fringe with "Stayin' Alive III," featuring classic-hit songs to modern tunes.

Big Time Rush singer Kendall Schmidt has filed a complaint with airline bosses after $7,000 -worth of jewellery went missing from his luggage during a recent flight to Austria.

Kevin Zimmer, right, is a "croc nut" and has worked with crocodiles and alligators for several years, along with other animals.

Construction walls have been removed around the site of Antarctica -- Empire of the Penguin at SeaWorld Orlando .

Central Florida's most-expensive new residential development, Golden Oak at Walt Disney World , has nearly sold out its first four neighborhoods and is about to open its fifth.

Former Chicago Tribune journalist Kelly Haramis juggles fertility issues, an adoption wait and unexpected deaths.