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Byline: Jerry W. Jackson The last time astronaut Charles Bolden Jr. vaulted from the Earth was in February 1994 when he was commander of the space shuttle Discovery. But on [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Faced with a growing number of ill passengers on its flagship vessel, Disney Cruise Line on Wednesday canceled the upcoming Saturday cruise of the Disney Magic so [...]

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. _ The flagship of Disney's cruise line set out for sea Saturday night after a stem-to-stern scrubbing by an army of cleaners hoping to eradicate a stomach [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Epcot closed Wednesday because of an early morning electrical breaker fire in a back stage area but the park was expected to reopen on schedule Thursday morning, [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Jurors found Walt Disney Co. guilty Friday of stealing the idea for its Wide World of Sports attraction and ordered the entertainment giant to pay $240 million [...]

Byline: Jerry W. Jackson ORLANDO, Fla. _ The hit to Florida's $500 billion economy from Hurricane Charley will soar into the tens of billions of dollars but the negative effects […]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ A pilot project that allows airline passengers to check their bags and get a boarding pass at their hotel is under way in Orlando. Local and federal [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ State agriculture officials clamped a quarantine on the movement of citrus in two areas of Orange County on Monday in a bid to halt the spread of [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Florida is not a big pork-producing state, but passage of a constitutional amendment last week prohibiting pregnant sows from being housed in tiny stalls is reverberating across [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ The 'bingo bus' that makes a daily trek from Orlando to the Seminole Indian Casino in Tampa, Fla., is already rocking by the time it reaches the [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ With arms folded and ball cap tilted back, James Hudson has his best poker face on as he patiently waits to get into a card game at [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ The aroma of barbecue will soon be floating across Central Florida lakes. But it won't be coming from backyard grills. Conway's BBQ is preparing to unveil a [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ With sinkholes opening regularly in Central Florida, including the recent one on Interstate 4, the new general manager at the Orlando Ripley's Believe it or Not! notes [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ As explorers venture farther from Earth and stay longer in the international space station, they will need to grow their own fresh veggies and learn how to [...]

CRESCENT CITY, Fla. _ Some survivors returned Friday to the site of the deadly Amtrak crash as investigators tried to discover what caused the derailment that killed four people and [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ When Armando Nunez was searching for a location to launch the Taza fast-food chicken chain, he settled on Orlando. As a restaurant testing ground, Nunez said, Central [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Every time the 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' television program airs a good segment _ like the recent one on the dog with the 17-inch tongue (believe [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Minute Maid has entered the lucrative Florida market with its Simply Orange brand of premium juice, launching a sophisticated TV ad campaign in a bold bid to [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Crop forecasters on Friday reduced the Florida orange harvest estimate by 3 million boxes to 228 million boxes. That's down 1.3 percent from earlier estimates. The reduction [...]

ORLANDO, Fla._Already home to one of the nation's largest McDonald's_a 15,000-square-foot playground-filled monument to kids_Central Florida is about to become home to what arguably will be the nation's most adult-oriented [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. Despite a slump in golf-equipment sales and a downturn in air travel, organizers of the world's largest golf trade show are preparing for what they hope will be [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ For pilots and flight attendants nationwide, the nightmare of knowing that their industry was used by terrorists in an unprecedented attack on the nation's symbols of economic [...]

Air travel ground to a halt Tuesday throughout the nation following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Travelers and relatives waiting at airports reacted with anger, shock and [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Hammered by a combination of low prices and drought earlier this year, Florida's orange and grapefruit crops at the end of this season's harvest are falling [...]

C) (HAS TRIM) Pass the hot sauce _ tortilla sales are sizzling. Fueled by the popularity of wraps, those trendy rolled sandwiches made with tortillas, the traditional flat bread from [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ The Holy Land Experience will have to pay property taxes just like any other tourist attraction despite its biblical theme and the fact that it is owned [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ As a college student in Louisiana, Andy Caneza peddled garlic to mom-and-pop stores to earn a few bucks. Now, more than a half-century later, the Orlando businessman [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ While critics of genetically engineered food are trying to ring alarm bells about the possible health or environmental risks of altered food, crops with designer genes are [...]

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. _ Warning labels that could frighten consumers away from fresh orange juice could turn out to be rarer than those colorful citrus-carton labels of yesteryear. Signs or […]

ORLANDO, Fla. _ Mitch regained tropical storm strength Tuesday and ragged remnants of the once powerful hurricane will stream across South Florida Wednesday and Thursday. 'It should be just rainfall […]