A happy dose of uplifting news from Central Florida and beyond.
 Tuesday, Sep 11 Orlando firefighter and former FDNY paramedic Felix Marquez received a community service award for helping fix a man's roof in August. The concert falls on Sept. 10, a day Marquez remembers as the last before his world was flipped on its head. |   | |
| My wife watched in amazement as a hawk swooped down into our yard to snatch a small snake. The lightning and rain from Sunday's storm didn't bother this bold bird, which took the snake to our side fence to eat it. |
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| Universal's Halloween Horror Nights is looming. Here's our guide for jittery event-goers. (You are not alone. In a good way.) |
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| Structure, discipline and confidence are proving to be worthy opponents in the battle against autism. Shinjiro Sasaki, a fourth-degree Black Belt in judo, is working with with UCF's Center for Autism and Related Disabilities to help autistic children with socialization and sensory processing. |
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| Meet the Northern African python — a nonnative snake that is gaining a foothold near Miami and grows so large that it's not just a threat to wildlife but to humans. |
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| Tim Tebow returned to Gainesville to deliver food to needy kids, but his aura couldn't deliver Florida from a historic defeat to Kentucky. |
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| Meals on Wheels America is giving out $200,000 in grants to help their elderly clients — including those in Orange County — feed and care for their pets. "Many seniors will go hungry themselves before they let their pet miss a meal," says Marsha Lorenz of Seniors First. |
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| The 2019 Guinness World Records book came out Thursday and Florida made its mark. |
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| In an attempt to rebrand itself and catch up to rival UCF, USF unveiled a new academic logo this week that looks a lot like Merrill Lynch's bull. |
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| See photos of Burt Reynolds dating back to his high school days in Palm Beach County, Florida. |
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