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FHP: Orlando police car involved in minor crash with school bus
An Orlando police patrol car was involved in a minor crash with a school bus on State Road 408 this afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol is reporting. FHP Sgt. Kim Montes said the police officer was trying to pass the school bus and sideswiped it about...
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Orlando, Transportation Accidents, Florida Highway Patrol
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Traffic: Brush fire causes major slowdown on BeachLine Expressway
A 3-acre brush fire is causing a backup on the westbound BeachLine Expressway . Three lanes of the expressway are closed at the toll plaza to accommodate firetrucks. The location is near the Central Florida GreeneWay. No structures are in danger,...
Tags: Sanford, Interstate 4, Traffic
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Public text messages should be no-brainer
Local governments are so befuddled about how to archive public officials' cellphone text messages that we're left to guess what kind of conversations are taking place about the public's business. Was Orange County Commissioner Jennifer Thompson...Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Travel Alerts, Orange County (Florida), Public Officials, Local Government
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Florida rivers' low profile puts them at risk
For an imaginary moment, swim with Hueland Todd Brown as he descends into a deep, caramel-colored river, feeling his way with his hands and hoping nothing bites. Brown lives by the Choctawhatchee, a wild river that coils through remote forests in the...
Tags: Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Chemical Industry, Judges, Florida State University
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Bear scoped out downtown Orlando for new home | Video
FloriDUHThis young cub wanted a taste of city nightlife. A young male between 2 and 3-years-old weighing 200-250 lbs. was doing what all young male bears must do: Striking out on his own, looking for a new home, when he ended up in downtown Orlando, two blocks...Tags: Endangered Species, Wekiva River, Biology, Natural Resources, Orlando
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Lake Ivanhoe Trail progress continues
The Chain Gang - Orlando SentinelThe wide trail will run around the lake's southern and eastern edge from Magnolia Avenue north along Orange Avenue and Ivanhoe Boulevard to a dead end at Interstate 4. A city of Orlando construction map does show the trail then extending down along the... -
Red Gold donates to 2nd Harvest, unveils 3-D tomato billboard
The Dish - Orlando SentinelAmerica’s largest tomato cans arrived in Orlando today as part of a Red Gold brand billboard unveiling promotion and a donation of more than 15,000 pounds of food to Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. Red Gold Tomatoes unveiled the... -
Joyce Ward, preservationist, dies
Joyce McCartney Ward, an activist in historic preservation causes who helped establish the Irish Shrine in Southwest Baltimore, died of cancer Aug. 4 at her Bolton Hill home. She was 81.
Born Joyce McCartney in Baltimore, she attended Garrison Junior...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Judges, Mount Royal, Politics, Interior Policy
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Lucretia Fisher, city preservationist
Lucretia Billings Fisher, the leader of an early effort to save Fells Point and Federal Hill from a 1960s interstate highway, died of renal failure Friday at her Ruxton home. She was 98.
"Lu Fisher was way ahead of her time," said former Judge Thomas...Tags: Highway Transportation, Judges, Fells Point, Literature, National Aquarium Baltimore
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Dolores B. Canoles, highway foe and Canton activist, dies
Dolores B. Canoles, a longtime Canton neighborhood activist who joined the battle in the late 1960s that successfully defeated a proposed extension of Interstate 83 through East Baltimore and who later was a member of the city Liquor Board, died Aug. 3 of...Tags: Highlandtown, White Marsh, Fort McHenry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barbara A. Mikulski
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