'A fantastic guy': Beloved Central Florida guitarist killed in Winter Garden alligator attack
Steven Hamilton, a 71-year-old retired guitarist, is being remembered as a great guy after being killed by a nearly 12-foot alligator while fishing.
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Steven Hamilton, a 71-year-old retired guitarist, is being remembered as a great guy after being killed by a nearly 12-foot alligator while fishing.
'The alligator was approximately 12-feet long and has been dispatched by FWC trappers,' Capt. Michael Mason of the Winter Garden Police Department said.
All of the southbound lanes of Florida's Turnpike are shut down before SR-50 in Winter Garden.
James Ernest Hitchcock, convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old step-niece to death nearly 50 years ago in Central Florida, is set to be executed Th...
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Jim and Chris Guld, who sold their Oakland Park home to live aboard the Villa Vie Odyssey, must find a new home after fuel costs reportedly became unaffordab...
Jim and Chris Guld, who sold their Oakland Park home to live aboard the Villa Vie Odyssey, must find a new home after fuel costs reportedly became unaffordab...
Kids at America's Got Soccer, a youth program in Oakland Park, said players like Lionel Messi have become heroes to them.
The Royal Peacock Dance Studio in Oakland Park has been sharing the choreography of "Dai Dai," superstar Shakira's song for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
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Winter Garden is in Orange County, Florida.
Region: Central Florida
34777, 34778, 34787
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This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Winter Garden, west of Orlando, lies in country once home to Native people whose identity, Timucua, Jororo or Mayaca, is uncertain; they were gone by the end of the 18th century. Native people from farther north who became the Seminole followed, and by the early 19th century some lived on the south shore of Lake Apopka; the settlement may have produced the Seminole leader Wild Cat.
During the Second Seminole War, on January 23, 1837, General Thomas S. Jesup, commander of U.S. forces in Florida, sent a detachment to Lake Apopka after a Seminole chief known as Osuchee, or Copper. The soldiers killed Osuchee and three other Seminoles and took 17 prisoners. The Second and Third Seminole wars pushed the Seminole south and out of the area. The first American settlers came in the 1850s, among them the Roper, Reams, Dunaway, Speer and Starke families. The Winter Garden Downtown Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sources Wikipedia: Winter Garden, Florida The Historical Marker Database: Winter Garden Downtown Historic District
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