State’s unemployment rate hits 11.9 percent; Metro Orlando’s reaches 12.4 percent Metro Orlando’s unemployment rate climbed to 12.4 percent in January, up six-tenths of a percentage point from December and a half-point higher than the statewide average of 11.9 percent, officials said Wednesday.
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Foreclosure filings increased last month in Metro Orlando, which ranked 12th for foreclosure activity nationally. But the longer-term view appeared better for Central Florida than for other large housing markets in the state.
TALLAHASSEE — Hours after his team was picked to finish seventh in the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference preseason basketball poll, Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton sat in the lobby of a Greensboro, N.C., hotel and wore a smirk on his face. In his hands, Hamilton held the results of that media vote — the one that suggested his team was no better than seventh-best in the conference.
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In cash-strapped times, Tait Carson of Tradebank is building a cash-free economy in Orlando.
The number of people without jobs in Central Florida is skyrocketing. Newly released numbers said Orange County has a record jobless rate.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — When Tiger Woods crashed into a fire hydrant and his neighbor’s tree in the early-morning hours after Thanksgiving, he did more than tear up an expensive SUV and set off weeks of revelations about hismarriage and sex life.