New outdoor music spot in downtown Orlando moves forward

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 8:20A Matthew J. Palm

Orlando City commissioners on Monday approved a legal agreement that keeps a planned downtown outdoor music spot on track. The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is planning to construct a...

Orange commissioner wants new attorneys to fight Split Oak toll road

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 8:03A Stephen Hudak

A key Orange County Commissioner is pushing to hire outside counsel to fight the Central Florida Expressway Authority over its plans for a toll road through Split Oak Forest, after an in-house county attorney declared the battle was unlikely to...

DeSantis blames Minnesota officials for immigration turmoil there

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 6:06A Anthony Man

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday he knows who’s responsible for the turmoil surrounding President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota, which has resulted in the fatal shootings of two American citizens by federal agents....

Orlando Sentinel 150: Remembering deadly Apollo 1 accident and its crew

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 3:49A Compiled by Orlando Sentinel Sta

As part of our 150th birthday, the Orlando Sentinel will reprint articles from our archives as part of our Monday Memory feature. Here’s one from 59 years ago this week about the death of the Apollo 1...

Trump administration invests in another US rare earth miner to loosen China’s grip on supply

Orlando Sentinel (Brinkmann On Business) 1/26 3:10A Associated Press

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, Associated Press Business Writer The U.S. is taking a minority stake in an Oklahoma rare earth miner, the latest government investment in the sector as it seeks to minimize its reliance on imports of a material used...

US stocks rise as gold hits another record and the dollar’s value falls

Orlando Sentinel (Brinkmann On Business) 1/26 2:59A Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ticking higher Monday, while other markets make much louder moves, including another record-breaking rush for the price of gold. Related Articles Trump administration invests in another US rare earth miner to...

After switch from ULA, SpaceX set for speedy national security launch

Orlando Sentinel (Brinkmann On Business) 1/26 1:59A Richard Tribou

SpaceX is set to launch its latest national security mission, yet another GPS satellite that was originally to have been launched by United Launch Alliance. A Falcon 9 is set to lift off Monday night on the GPS III-9 mission to bring the satellite...

Spike in Florida gas prices last week have shifted back down, AAA says

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 12:51A Richard Tribou

Gas prices in Florida rose to their highest level since December 20 in the last week, but have eased off in the last few days, according to AAA. The state average had jumped 14 cents from a week ago to a high of $2.89 per gallon on Thursday,...

Parts of Central Florida under freeze warning as cold weather moves in for the long haul

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 12:30A Richard Tribou

The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a freeze warning for parts of Central Florida for overnight into Tuesday morning with forecast temperatures expected to fall into the lower 30s. The warning is in effect from midnight-9 a.m....

Arts supporters fear Seminole commission may cut funding

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/26 12:00A Martin E. Comas

As Seminole commissioners delve into the finances of the Seminole Cultural Arts Council this week , supporters of the non-profit group fear their organization may no longer be able to provide grants, programs and school events that promote the...

European Union opens investigation into Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes

Orlando Sentinel (Brinkmann On Business) 1/25 11:39P Associated Press

By KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk s social media platform X on Monday after his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok spewed nonconsensual sexualized...

40 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster changed Central Floridians’ lives

Orlando Sentinel (Brinkmann On Business) 1/25 12:00A Richard Tribou

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over...

Protestor arrested for assault during anti-ICE rally in Orlando

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/24 4:33A Elainie Barraza

A protestor was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff s Office on Friday during a rally against mass deportation in Orlando on Friday, OCSO said. The arrest happened as demonstrators gathered outside...

Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/24 4:24A Associated Press

By JACK BROOK MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier. The details surrounding the shooting weren...

Petition urges Orlando to protect Lake Eola swans as city says it’s ‘reevaluating’ program

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 1/24 12:00A Ryan Gillespie

Andrew Marshall has ruffled some feathers in his volunteer role caring for Lake Eola s swans. Now, following the deaths of dozens of those swans over the past month, he s demanding more be done to...