-
Community activists are calling for an overhaul of the Orlando Police Department’s internal review system. That’s after an internal review cleared an officer in an assault on a homeless man.
-
Demolition started Tuesday on a redevelopment project near the Citrus Bowl in Downtown Orlando.
-
Orlando planners recommend changing zoning rules to make way for a new men’s shelter in Parramore. But as 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, residents say the developing area doesn’t need another social service agency.
-
Mom and pops stores in central Florida are preparing to see more customers shopping tomorrow. 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, more local shop owners are participating in Small Business Saturday.
-
District 5 commissioner Regina Hill, along with volunteers from Parramore's Shiloh Baptist Church and Orlando City Soccer Club, partnered to pass out more than 500 grocery bags for residents to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.
-
A proposal to build a new homeless shelter in Parramore has drawn ire from residents. They are urging city officials to think about how the shelter will affect the neighborhood’s image. 90.7’s Renata Sago has this story.
-
Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood has a rich history of music and art. So far, it’s perhaps best known as the home of a performance hall that drew many famous black musicians in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
-
Heroin has overtaken cocaine as the deadliest street drug in Orange County and Mayor Teresa Jacobs says she wants to do something about it - fast. What’s the best way to tackle the heroin problem in Central Florida? And if it’s not heroin, will something else spring up just as fast to replace it? That story and more on the Friday news round table.
-
Underneath an overpass on South Parramore Avenue the same people play checkers, week in and week out. A breeze passes through, an escape from the Florida heat. Most of the men have been playing here for decades. Today we look at Checker Park, where a poverty-stricken community hangs out to get lost in a good game of checkers.
-
When the city of Orlando launched a study into the historic black Parramore neighborhood, it got back some alarming statistics. One of them was Parramore’s jobless rate – nearly 24 percent. Much has changed since last year, when that number surfaced in a comprehensive plan for the neighborhood.