| Good morning. It's Thursday, March 24. Backyard chickens may be coming to Winter Garden, as a proposal for a program that will allow city dwellers to keep chickens in their backyards goes to the city commission. In Orlando, officials are reviewing whether a police officer may have violated the state's ethics code by also working for a company that wants to supply the department with body cams. And see a gallery of movies leaving Netflix soon. Here's what else is happening in Central Florida. Have a great day. While Winter Garden's existing laws prohibit keeping chickens within 100 feet of a dwelling, officials are hatching a plan to ease these restrictions. [More] City officials are reviewing whether an Orlando police officer may have violated the state's ethics code by also working for a company that wants to supply the police department with body cams. [More] Arrest documents in this weekend's shooting outside an Orange County strip club, the Diamond Club, confirm the deadly confrontation was related to biker-gang violence. [More] Oviedo family fights for closed captioning on audio portion of state exams, arguing that section of Florida's language arts test isn't a fair one for deaf or hard-of-hearing students. [More] Dhyana Mishra's path to winning Orlando Sentinel's 57th annual spelling bee on Wednesday seemed worthy of an aretalogy.[More] As tipoff approached Wednesday, Tobias Harris insisted he would treat his first matchup against the Orlando Magic since his trade to the Detroit Pistons as just another game. After all, he said, the Magic at least sent him to a franchise with a legitimate chance at reaching the playoffs. [More] UCF hiring of Johnny Dawkins as basketball coach doesn't have nearly the pizazz and panache of Scott Frost hiring as new football coach. Can Dawkins succeed at a second-tier program at UCF when he couldn't do it at a first-rate program at Stanford? [More] Orlando City goalkeeper Joe Bendik faced criticism from fans when he first replaced beloved Tally Hall, but he earned universal support after delivering six key saves during a win over NYCFC. [More] Twitter confuses Georgia minister named Tommy Redding with Orlando City's young defender of the same name, leading to hilarious exchanges on social media. [More] New UCF coach Johnny Dawkins' teammates endorse the Knights' decision to hire the former Duke standout. [More] Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom is getting an early start on the holiday in 2016. The first night of the event will be Sept. 2 - three days before Labor Day and more than eight weeks before Halloween. [More] "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" plays like a loose remake of "The Odd Couple," in which Oscar and Felix are trying to kill each other. [More] Nia Vardalos' screenplay feels as if it was written the year after the first film's success, just with a few jokes about Facetime inserted for 2016 topicality. [More] Heather McPherson writes her last column for Orlando Sentinel [More] Community is the watchword at Rollins College's Cornell Fine Arts Museum. [More] | 
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