Orlando Sentinel

2 days ago | orlandosentinel.com | Jeffrey Schweers

TALLAHASSEE - Hope Florida Foundation attorney Jeff Aaron said he can't make a legislative committee hearing this week to testify about the charity affiliated with First Lady Casey DeSantis and the focus of a $10 million Medicaid donation probe. "He informed me today that he has a 'conflict'" on Thursday," Rep. Alex Andrade, R-Pensacola, told the Orlando Sentinel by email.

4 days ago | orlandosentinel.com | Jeffrey Schweers

TALLAHASSEE - Celia Franjul is one of the 30,000 people Hope Florida boasts it helped get out of poverty and off government assistance. She is even featured in the Hope Florida magazine alongside a softly-lit photo of two children hugging a woman - one of four success stories touted by the organization that has provided few specifics to support its claims of impact. The photo is not of her or her family, however.

4 days ago | orlandosentinel.com | Llewellyn King

America has your back. That has been the message of U.S. foreign policy to the world's vulnerable since the end of World War II. That sense that America is behind you was a message for Europe against the threat of the Soviet Union and has been the implicit message for all threatened by authoritarian expansionism. From the sophisticated in Western Europe to the struggling masses worldwide, America has always been there to help.

4 days ago | orlandosentinel.com | Jason Beede

BOSTON - While there could be similarties between Orlando and Boston, the differences are stark. Some see them. Others don't. After three regular-season meetings with the Magic winning twice, a first-round playoff series between the Magic and Celtics that starts Sunday will settle it. Orlando, which went 41-41 in the regular season for No. 7 in the East, faces a tall order against the defending champion, a 61-win team that's the No. 2 seed. There are forwards ( Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner vs.

5 days ago | orlandosentinel.com | Jason Beede

The Magic won the season series with the Celtics 2-1, just one of five teams to beat them multiple times in the regular season. Orlando, Indiana, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Oklahoma City accounted for 10 of Boston's 21 losses. But there's context for both sides. When Boston made its first trip to Kia Center on Dec. 23, it was an emotional night for the Magic. Two days earlier, reserve center Moe Wagner had a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee.