Winter Park News

WESH.com updated Dec. 19, 2009 WINTER PARK, Fla. - WESH.com Winter Park's malls were a sea of jackets, hats and scarves of every color Saturday as shoppers braved the cold to finish their Christmas shopping.

The current world record for the longest sermon or speech is 25 hours, but Pastor Mike Frazier plans to preach for 30.

An Orlando man was sentenced to 32 years in prison in two 2008 bank robberies, federal prosecutors said today.

When the owners of Joey's American Road Service wanted T-shirts for their staff, they didn't need money.

T he holiday cheer may be getting a little out of hand. I just saw sugar plums dancing and it wasn't in my head.

Twelve years of trying to bring a train to Central Florida ended in triumph this week, not just in Tallahassee, but in Washington, too.

For much of the 15 years Interiors has operated in Winter Park, it was a furniture and accessories store.

If you're looking for traditional Mexican food at an affordable price, you can find several cheap Mexican restaurants around Orlando.

What: A cast of familiar faces and some new ones delivers some familiar tunes - and some new ones - in Winter Park Playhouse's seasonal offering, Haul Out the Holidays .

The city of Orlando on Dec. 2 held a grand opening of the new Orlando Fire Department headquarters and Fire Station No.

The annual Winter Park Boat Parade -- Festival of Lights is back , and the 2009 parade will take place December 12t h on Lakes Virginia and Osceola.A The Winter Park Boat Parade and Festival of Lights is a fun, community-wide water parade with holiday-themed and lighted boats along the lakes' shorelines.

What does it say about our pop culture when The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Shakira's unrelated She Wolf CD both dropped before Black Friday? It says that women, witches and wolves are hot, as has been the case for a very long time.

Friends of Fleet Peeples Park will offerPet Portraits and Nail Clipping on Sunday in the main pavilion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All money raised will go toward dog park improvements.

Here's an audition for Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at the Breakthrough Theatre: Audition dates: Sunday, December 6, 8 p.m.-10 p.m. Monday, December 7, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park 419A W. Fairbanks Avenue Winter Park, FL 32789 407-920-4034 No appointments being taken.

A man was seriously injured this evening in an armed carjacking on Decatur Street in the Semoran Club Apartments near Winter Park.

Can a slowdown in growth lead to a better quality of life? Bonnie Campagnuolo kisses son Benjamin, 5, as Baldwin Park neighbor Mollie O'Shea prepares to drive him and and her son Dylan, 6, to school this month.

The brand-new Winter Park Playhouse may have been open since August, but that doesn't stop its people from celebrating a grand opening next weekend.

Hunger for Thanksgiving help: 'It's off the charts' Samaritans gather hundreds of holiday meals for needy Hagerty High School senior Zavia Menning is on a mission to provide Thanksgiving meals to 500 families; she's still trying to meet that goal.

The newish Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park has already changed some of is schedule for the current season.

WHAT : If you needed another reason to love this time of year, here are several: the return of free Friday nights at the Morse Museum in Winter Park , along with the museum's much loved Christmas in the Park event, now in its 31st year, and its annual free admission day on Christmas Eve.