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Season of Hope

Making an Impact in Central Florida this Holiday Season.  Share you season of hope stories.  How did you spread joy? How did your receive joy?

 

 

  Krystal Velasco and her son.

If you don't watch your weight, you could be charged double for your airline ticket.  That's what happened to Krystal Velasco. The 23 year old mother wasn't charged for her luggage. Instead, a Southwest Airlines gate agent stopped her from boarding a plane-until she bought a second ticket to make up for her own extra weight.

Krystal said she was humiliated in front of her 7 year old son, especially when the ticket agent delayed the plane until she paid the extra fee. She cried openly as she described the ordeal.

Krystal says she's flown Southwest many times before-and never had to pay for an extra seat. She says she would have been happy to pay more-if she would have only known about the fee. Instead, she got through the ticket counter, security screening and waiting at the gate for more than hour without anyone saying a word.

Once on board the plane, Krystal was shocked to see there were plenty of open seats and she was seated next to her son, so she wasn't making any other passengers uncomfortable.

Krystal searched Southwest's website and never found anything about the hefty fee for overweight passengers. And while there are signs explaining just about everything at the Southwest ticket counter, the policy regarding overweight passengers isn't posted anywhere.

A spokesperson for the airline says the policy is on Southwest's website and affects less than 1 percent of their customers.   Still, Krystal says the airline needs to more upfront about the fee, so other overweight passengers don't have to be embarrassed.

Southwest has already offered her a refund. But Krystal says it's not the money -it's the fact that she was treated so badly. She says she'll be flying Frontier from now on.

Is the airline's overweight policy fair?

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Caylee Marie Anthony was first reported missing on July 15, over 30 days after she first disappeared.

Casey Anthony, mother of the missing 3-year-old toddler, says she left Caylee in the care of a babysitter, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. However, investigators in the case say they haven't been able to determine that this person exists.

Casey was taken into custody on July 16, charged with child neglect, making false statements and obstructing an investigation. Her bond was set at $500,200. She was bonded out by a California bounty hunter on August 21.

On Friday, August 28, she was re-arrested for uttering a forged instrument, fraudulent use of personal information and petit theft. The bounty hunter that first posted her bond rescinded his offer, making it virtually impossible for her to be released on a $503,200 bond with her additional $3,000 bond on new charges.

Orange County officers filed additional check fraud and theft charges, and say they plan to charge Casey with more economic crimes in the future.

Casey was released for a second time Friday, September 5 after an anonymous person or group fronted her bond. She was escorted out of the jail by her attorney, Jose Baez, and two bodyguards.

She was arrested for a third time Monday, September 15 on new check fraud and theft charges. Casey was released shortly after on a $1,250 bond and was again escorted out of jail by her attorney and two bodyguards.

Anthony was arrested Tuesday October 14, 2008 on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators about the disappearance of her daughter.

On Wednesday October 15, 2008 Casey Anthony made her initial court appearance on charges that she murdered her missing 3-year-old daughter, Caylee. Anthony went before Judge John Jordan, who read the charges against her. Dressed in a blue jail jumpsuit, Anthony made no comment during Wednesday's 90-second hearing. Her attorney, Jose Baez, declined comment afterward. She will be arraigned in about 30 days.

PHOTO GALLERY: Anthony family releases new pictures of Caylee

Discovery released November 26, 2008

Discovery documents - Set One

Discovery documents - Set Two

Discovery documents - Set Three

Discovery documents - Set Four

Discovery documents - Set Five

Discovery documents - Set Six

Discovery documents - Set Seven

Discovery documents - Set Eight

Discovery documents - Set Nine

Discovery documents - Set Ten

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony motion hearing

PHOTO GALLERY: Anthony & Kid Finders news conference

VIDEO: FBI interview with George Anthony conducted on July 31, 2008

VIDEO: --Part 2 Interview conducted by the FBI with George Anthony on July 31, 2008

VIDEO: --FBI Interview with Cindy Anthony conducted on July 30, 2008

VIDEO: -- Part 2: FBI Interview with Cindy Anthony conducted on July 30, 2008

Motions filed in the Casey Anthony case November 18, 2008

State of Florida vs. Casey Marie Anthony
witness list released November 18, 2008

Texas Equusearch volunteers search for Caylee, November 8 & 9, 2008

Casey Anthony at Fusian Ultra Lounge June 13, 2008

Taped transcript of Amy Huzienga on July 16, 2008

Taped transcript of George Anthony on July 24, 2008

Taped transcript of George Anthony on August 4, 2008

Flight records of Airtran Flight #862 on July 2, 2008

Flight records of Airtran Flight #862 on July 2, 2008 - Set 2

Flight records of Airtran Flight #862 on July 2, 2008 - Set 3

Flight records of Airtran Flight #862 on July 2, 2008 - Set 4

Casey Anthony's Employment Information

Forensic Evidence released in the case against Casey Anthony

Various investigation documents in the Casey Anthony case

Child neglect investigation

Casey Anthony's E-pass records

Media reports about the Casey Anthony case

Tips released in the search for Caylee Anthony Set 1

Tips released in the search for Caylee Anthony Set 2

Tips released in the search for Caylee Anthony Set 3

Tips released in the search for Caylee Anthony Set 4

Tips released in the search for Caylee Anthony Set 5

Tips released in the search for Caylee Anthony Set 6

VIDEO: Casey Anthony first appearance on Grand Jury indictment charges  

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony first appearance

READ: Casey Anthony's indictments  

Documents released by the State Attorney's Office related to the Casey Anthony case - October 8, 2008.

VIDEO: Casey Anthony is seen cashing one of Amy Huzienga's checks at a Bank of America branch on July 15, 2008.

VIDEO: Surveillance video taken on July 8 at Waterford Lakes Target

VIDEO: Surveillance video taken on July 8 at Waterford Lakes Target

VIDEO: Surveillance video taken on July 10 at Waterford Lakes Target

VIDEO: Surveillance video taken on July 10 at Winter Park Target

Motion to seal filed by Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez, October 6, 2008

Motion for production of favorable evidence filed by Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez, October 7, 2008

Motions filed by Casey Anthony’s attorney Jose Baez, October 3, 2008

Lawsuit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez against Casey Anthony

VIDEO: Zenaida Gonzalez speaks to FOX 35

Text messages sent to Amy Huizenga from Casey Anthony: May 2-3

Text messages sent to Amy Huizenga from Casey Anthony: May 4

Text messages sent to Amy Huizenga from Casey Anthony: May 15

Text messages sent to Amy Huizenga from Casey Anthony: May 16-17

Text messages sent to Amy Huizenga from Casey Anthony: June 12-13

Text messages sent to Amy Huizenga from Casey Anthony: June 14

Text messages sent to Brittany Scheiber from Casey Anthony: July 16

Text messages sent to Brittany Scheiber from Casey Anthony: July 24

VIDEO: Part 1- Cindy Anthony speaks with investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, July 31, 2008

VIDEO: Part 2- Cindy Anthony speaks with investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, July 31, 2008

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony wearing an American flag at a party

Letter Casey wriote to Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary on August 14, 2008

Evidence and incident reports related to Casey Anthony case

Instant messages with buddy nyitaliano3

Transcript of jail call between Cindy and Casey on July 18, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Christopher Stutz June 30, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Karen Angel, July 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Shirley Plesea, July 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Jonathan Daly on July 17, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Matthew Crisp on July 17, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Sean Daly on July 17, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Maria Kissh on July 17, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Danny Colamarino on July 17, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Nicole Lett on July 24, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Gary Ridgeway on July 24, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Jeffrey Hopkins, Jr. on July 24, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Mike Kozak on July 30, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Simon Burch on July 30, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Anthony Rusciano on August 18, 2008

Transcript of interview by Orange County Sheriff Investigators with Jamie Realander on August 19, 2008

Audio recording of interview with Lee Anthony, July 29, 2008

Audio recording of interview with Jesse Grund, July 23, 2008

Audio recording of interview with Jesse Grund, July 31, 2008

Transcript of Anthony Lazaro interview on July 22, 2008

Transcript of Amy Huizenga interview on July 23, 2008

Transcript of Jesse Grund interview on July 23, 2008

Transcript of Brittany Schieber interview on July 24, 2008

Transcript of Troy Brown interview on July 25, 2008

Transcript of Ricardo Moralesinterview on July 25, 2008

Transcript of Lee Anthony interview on July 29, 2008

Transcript of Brian Burner interview on July 30, 2008

Transcript of William Waters interview on July 30, 2008

Transcript of Jesse Grund interview on July 31, 2008

 Transcript of Lauren Gibbs interview on August 1, 2008

 

PHOTO GALLERIES

PHOTO GALLERY: Grand Jury hears evidence

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey released from jail 3rd time

PHOTO GALLERY: Confrontation at Anthony home

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony released from jail - again

PHOTO GALLERY: Hundreds of volunteers gather for search

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony escorted out of jail

PHOTO GALLERY: Tony Padilla "world famous" bounty hunter

PHOTO GALLERY: Search team finds possible evidence

PHOTO GALLERY: Cards and gifts sent to the Anthony family

PHOTO GALLERY: Anthony Family Drives Mobile Billboard

PHOTO GALLERY: Dive teams search pond near Anthony home

PHOTO GALLERY: Crime scene investigators at Anthony home

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony Partying at Nightclub

PHOTO GALLERY: Gag Order Hearing

PHOTO GALLERY: Casey Anthony Bond Hearing

PHOTO GALLERY: Investigators search backyard for clues

PHOTO GALLERY: Investigators revisit Anthony home

PHOTO GALLERY: Caylee Anthony

PHOTO GALLERY: Protest and arrest at Anthony home

PHOTO GALLERY: George Anthony hoses protestors

For years kindergarten children at two elementary schools in Claremont California have had the Thanksgiving tradition of dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and sharing a feast.

It’s a forty year old district tradition, where kindergartners at two district elementary schools take annual turns dressing up and visiting the other school for a Thanksgiving feast.

But next week when the students meet for the tradition they won’t be wearing their handmade costumes.

The town is divided after the school board, bowing to political correctness according to some, cancelled the event.

The controversy began when a mother of a kindergartener, who also happens to be an English professor at a local college who specializes in Native American literature, wrote a letter to her daughter’s teacher calling the Thanksgiving tradition ‘demeaning’.

"I'm sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation's history,” Michelle Raheja wrote according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

But parents like Kathleen Lucas said her son -- now a first-grader -- still wears the vest and feathered headband he made last year to celebrate the holiday.

"My son was so proud," she said. "In his eyes, he thinks that's what it looks like to be Indian."

According to some of the costume supporters, Raheja and others opposed to the costumes as agenda-driven elitists.

Raheja is "using those children as a political platform for herself and her ideas," Constance Garabedian said as her 5-year-old kindergartner happily practiced a song about Native Americans in the background. "I'm not a professor and I'm not a historian, but I can put the dots together."

The debate is far from over. Some parents plan to send their children to school in costume Tuesday -- doubting that administrators will force them to take them off. The following day, some plan to keep their children home, costing the district attendance funds to punish them for modifying the event.

We want to know…do you think the Pilgrim and Indian party for little kids isn’t appropriate anymore, or is it no big deal?

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Santa Claus may be coming to town, but you won't see him at Florida Gulf Coast University.

The university has banned all holiday decorations (video: MyFoxTampaBay) in public places.

There's no "BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP," no jingle bells, not even a manger or the Star of David.  It is not even December yet, and already some are crying, 'Bah Humbug!'

"It's kind of silly to take something like that away," offered Nicole Tores, a junior at FGCU.

"I think its absurd," added student Collin Llewelyn.  "I think it's going to damage a lot of people's Christmas spirit."

Students and staffers say it's not the Grinch, but the university's own president that stole Christmas.

"It's bad enough we live in Florida and there's no snow to even show that it's Christmas, but the fact that we cannot look around our campus and see that it is Christmas?" senior Kazik Bajda observed.

In a letter to faculty and staff, the university president, Wilson Bradshaw, Ph.D. banned all holiday and seasonal decorations from the school's common areas, citing "legal limitations."

"There is no attempt to suppress the holiday spirit," Dr. Bradshaw told MyFoxTampaBay.  "I think we cannot appear to endorse any one or two or three or any religions as a state agency."

Holiday decorations are still allowed in personal areas, such as residence halls and faculty offices.  However, many students say they like seeing religious and cultural displays on campus. Even the traditional Giving Tree on campus for underprivileged pre-schoolers was re-named -- they're now calling it a "Giving Garden."

The school's popular greeting card contest was cancelled, too.  Instead, they're having an ugly sweater contest.

"I know that it is pretty PC to do what we're doing; at the same time though, everybody wants to feel that seasonal cheer at Christmas time," Bajda continued.

"Its crazy!  It's nothing like what FGCU has stood for before, especially because our mission this year is diversity," said Cassandra Davis of the university's Multi-Cultural Affairs Office.  "It would be better if they embraced every single holiday: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukah, instead of just making it so neutral, almost like sterilized."

The Staff Advisory Council has already gotten dozens of anonymous complaints.  They're hoping the president will have a change of heart, and so are many of the students.

Dr. Bradshaw says he does want to establish a panel of students and faculty, to come up with suggestions -- for next year.

Think banning Christmas decorations on campus is a bit much?

What about the giving tree becoming a giving garden?

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The Ideis Food Store caught on fire before 6 a.m. Wednesday. We are hearing that this was a very popular spot for neighbors to come together and talk.

The grocery store is located in downtown Sanford, off West 13th Street.

Right now, we don't know what caused the fire or if anything will remain of the building.

Have you ever been to the store? Do you have any memories you'd like to share about Ideis? We'd like to hear from you on this one.

On Feb. 17, 2009, federal law requires that all full-power television broadcast stations stop broadcasting in analog format and broadcast only in digital format. This means that after that date all TV sets not equipped with digital tuners will no longer be able to receive programming through rooftop or rabbit-ear antennas.

Are you ready for the digital transition? Have you received your converter box yet? We'd like to hear from you this morning.

The historic campaign was marked by breakthroughs in race, gender, age, fundraising and use of technology.

Barack Obama became the first African American president and Joe Biden became the first Roman Catholic vice president.

And, it's expected that nearly 140 Americans voted which itself would certainly set a record.

This morning, we'd like to know where you think this moment will rank in American history.

We want to hear from you! Tell us about your voting experience and how long you waited in line to vote. Did you run into any problems at the polls? Do you feel confident in the presidential candidate you voted for?

Remember to join us for our LIVE webcast tonight at 7 p.m.! We'll have a LIVE chat, a behind-the-scenes look at the election and special guests.

Marion County Sheriff's officers arrested a 42-year-old Ocala woman after they found her passed out in her truck with her 4-year-old in the front seat. She refused to do a sobriety test, but cops found three small half-empty bottles of vodka in the truck.

The woman has been charged with a DUI and was taken to jail and now DCF is investigating.

What do you think about the story? Share your thoughts and opinions.

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The Hanson brothers visited the FOX 35 studios this morning and talked about their Walk the World Tour and what fans can expect to hear on their new album.

Click here to view a photo gallery of their visit

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Are you still a fan of the trio? They've certainly grown up!

With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature. The final vote, 263-171 in the House, capped two weeks of tumult in Congress and on Wall Street, punctuated by daily warnings that the country confronted the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression if lawmakers failed to act.

What are your thoughts on billions of taxpayer dollars being used to bailout the financial industry?