Central Florida Dems rule out party switch after 2 other lawmakers jump to GOP
A lawmaker from Hillsborough County and another from Broward County switched their party affiliation to Republican after ...
Winter storm plods into the Deep South, prompting states of emergency and school closures
Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert ...
Anita Bryant, longtime face of Florida orange juice and anti-gay crusades, dies
In a long campaign of television commercials, she sang “Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree” and offered the tagline: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.” But her ...
Disney’s Space Mountain: A roller coaster of a timeline
• Jan. 15, 1975: Space Mountain opened at a cost of $15 million, the Sentinel reported, “an amount more than the whole cost ...
Space Mountain turns 50: Dark Disney coaster lights the way
As modern coasters go, Space Mountain isn’t speedy. It gets up to about 28 mph. The current record holder is Formula Rossa at ...
Dwight Howard claims Adam Silver called him after he tweeted ‘Free Palestine’; NBA says that’s ‘categorically false’
Dwight Howard says he received a call from NBA commissioner Adam Silver almost immediately after he tweeted “Free Palestine” ...