Winter Garden News

Jazz is one of those things that's hard to define. The legendary Louis Armstrong took a shot at it, famously saying that if you had to ask what it was, "you'll never know." Not too much help there, Satch! In the case of what falls under the jazz umbrella hereabout, it can be anything from the innocuous Smooth Jazz to the more purist-friendly Sunday ...

Local hospital systems lost millions of dollars in 2008 due to the Great Recession - but the combined profits of three of them soared by 285 percent last year, thanks to the recovering stock market, cost-cutting measures and an increase in patient volumes.

Never-before-seen video of the Challenger space shuttle disaster has surfaced after almost a quarter-century locked away in a Florida basement.

State police said they may have made the biggest drug bust in Pennsylvania's history over the weekend after pulling over a truck loaded with between two and three tons of marijuana.

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Tampa-based DeBartolo Development LLC bought the 379-unit Falcon Square Apartments in Winter Garden with a $24.2 million senior bridge loan from Los Angeles-based Canyon Capital Realty Advisors .

A TSA agent has been arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor after police say he tried to keep a girl as a sex slave.

A federal Transportation Security Administration employee has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a girl, Orange County sheriff's deputies said.

A woman accused of embezzling money from a Lake County bank has now been connected to a similar crime.

A bankruptcy court judge has approved the sale of all Hollywood-based TOUSA's Florida properties to Starwood Land Ventures , a Bradenton-based real estate development and investment firm.

Next Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, South Lake Chamber members will welcome Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton as guest speaker at its quarterly member luncheon at the Wesley Center of First United Methodist Church.

Sara Ward is Gulf County's Junior Miss. She was selected to represent the Gulf County area at the Florida Junior Miss program that took place on Oct.

The Winter Garden Theatre is going to be demolished. Such is the end result of a resolution going before the County Legislature next week.

Jazz On Edge , an annual festival celebrating creative musicians performing their own work, opens its second season at a new venue, the Garden Theatre in Winter Garden on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at 7:30pm. The evening starts at 6pm with a free outdoor performance by the Lakeview Middle School Jazz Band.

Icicles hang from an orange tree at a commercial grove near Winter Garden, Fla., last week.

A orange is encrusted in ice on Monday in Winter Garden, Fla., as citrus growers continued night after night to spray water on their citrus trees to protect the fruit from sub-freezing temperatures.

Students on a mission in Haiti, rescued with the help of the military and private donations, enjoyed their first day home Saturday after being greeted in Orlando by banners, balloons and more than 100 well-wishers. The atmosphere at Orlando International Airport was carnival-like as the weary travelers passed through customs shortly after midnight ...

Ice covers oranges on a tree creating a protective shell in a commercial grove January 11, 2010 near Winter Garden, Florida.

The prosecutor handling the latest appeal in one of Orange County's most notorious murder cases is urging the judge overseeing the case to deny William Thomas Zeigler's latest request for additional DNA testing.

A former Orlando-area priest faces a second lawsuit alleging he sexually abused an underage altar boy more than 30 years ago.