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After four months of year-over-year growth, business dipped in April at Orlando-area hotels, likely because of an early Easter this year and the absence of a couple of big conventions in town.

The Orlando Philharmonic will announce today that it is buying the iconic Plaza Live Theatre on Bumby Avenue, where the orchestra will update the 1,000-seat music hall to accommodate chamber music concerts while also keeping a schedule of rock, jazz, comedy and contemporary music shows.

Working to the pulsing beat of dance music, dozens of volunteers filled thousands of small plastic bags with lentils, rice and dehydrated vegetables at the Feeding Children Everywhere warehouse in Longwood Tuesday night.

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.