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Universal Orlando has announced another original Hornty House concept for the 2025 edition of Halloween Horror Night. It’s called a doll: die and play. “You’re about to be doll-sized, burned, fused, hunted with toys sewn together by twisted little girls,” reads the entire maze description posted on social media on Wednesday morning. This is the fifth HHN house identified at the event. This is a fierce off-hours/additional ticket horror festival held on select nights at Universal Studios Florida Theme Park between August 29th and November 2nd. This will keep the fans at the halfway point of the house. Universal says…
Grocery giant Kroger announced during its first quarter revenue call this month that it will close around 60 defective stores over the next 18 months. At the same time, the company plans to open new locations this year and through the next location. “We simplify our business and review areas that are meaningless for future growth. Unfortunately, not all of our stores today deliver the sustainable results we need,” Ronald Sargent, chairman and interim CEO of Kroger, said in a June 20th revenue call. “We are not underestimating these decisions, but this will make the company more efficient and Kroger…
In Florida, reliable energy is more than just convenience. It’s a lifeline. In extreme weather conditions, trustworthy power during and after storms is essential for the well-being of our communities and economic health.Chip Whitworth (Tampa Electric)Tampa Electric prepares you year-round during hurricane season with aggressive measures such as installing durability, regular inspection and maintenance of power poles to install self-healing technology, detecting outages, power detection, and restoring service in seconds, ensuring durability and installing self-healing technology. Beyond these continuing efforts, our storm protection plan represents a long-term investment in resilience designed to allow our infrastructure to recover robust, robust and…
Jensen Beach, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida renter has been charged with attempted murder after saying he brutally attacked a landlord and plunged an SUV into the house. The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said 69-year-old Brian Thomas Leach had invited his landlord to come downstairs for dinner Tuesday night. When she did, investigators said, “Leach attacked her cruelly, beat her, and seriously injured her.” A St. Pete woman was arrested almost a year after her nine months of death in a non-licensed daycare Shortly afterwards, Leach entered his SUV and “deliberately plunged it into the structure, causing great damage,” the…
A Gaines County, Florida resident is charged with federal charges allegedly trafficking methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Lawyer’s Office for the Northern District of Florida.Ronald Carl Peavy II, 49, of Old Town, has been accused of owning it with the intention of distributing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. If convicted, Peavy faces the biggest potential life sentence in federal prison.Peavy is scheduled to be arrested in federal court in Gainesville on July 1 at 2:15pm before U.S. Magistrate Judge Midori A. Lowry.The case comes from an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Department and the Dixie County Sheriff’s Office.…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to detain immigrants as part of the state’s aggressive push to support federal crackdowns against illegal immigrants. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that he was considering building the facility at the Florida State Guard training center, known as camp branding, about 30 miles (48 kilometres) southwest of Jacksonville in northeastern Florida, in addition to the site being built in a remote location in Ebara called “Alligator Alcatraz.” DeSantis signs Tampa laws to mental health, substance abuse bill The construction of the facility in a…
Independence Day is around the corner. So, some of the country’s most patriotic traditions will turn your usual peaceful community into a war zone for backyard barbecues, neighborhood parades, and for one man in many neighborhoods.Scott Maxwell (Provided)When I was growing up, July 4th meant putting streamers on bikes and big wheels. Recently, some people believe this means attempting to replicate the British artillery fire that influenced Francis Scott Key during the war of 1812.Nothing screams patriotism like using bamboo bangers and lightning to panic your neighbor’s dog and keep your baby from sleeping.Well, much of Orange County has enough.…
(Hill) – The Trump administration and Florida leaders are moving forward with plans to build detention facilities in remote areas surrounded by the nation’s swamps, retaining undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. The site, called “Alligator Alcatraz,” can be opened with softside holding units for hundreds of detainees in the coming years through a federally funded partnership and overseeing build-outs and management by the Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM). Additional holding units will be added under the contract until next month. The facility is projected to cost around $450 million a year. This comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft finally made it off the ground on a private astronaut mission for Axiom Space. Launch of the Axiom Ax-4 mission from Launch Complex 39-A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space Peggy Whitson is the commander; Indian Space Research Organisation astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is the pilot; and European Space Agency project astronauts Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary are the mission specialists. This is the fourth private astronaut mission to…
There is a uniqueness that cannot be denied in Japan. The narrow alleyway features a small bar, rooms for just a handful of guests, lined up the street. Here, customers line up with the host for sake, skewers, skewers and proximity that Benjamin Koots might describe as “analog.” “In these little intimate bars, there’s conversation, life and reality, and there’s more face-to-face experience,” he says. There are no new stars, but 13 Orlando restaurants will join the Michelin Guide Rank This is the first Sommelier liquor Sumi pop-up of the Michelin-winning sommelier to win a Michelin award on Thursday (June…