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Hijacking in Orlando? Hmmm, Maybe

I’m not sure if it was a terrorist group — or more likely some bored loner kid in a basement somewhere — but the RogerSimmons.com Orlando TV Talk Forum message board was hacked on Friday morning. (And when I say "hacked," basically that means they were able to overwrite some…

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Channel 9’s Echols helping cancer patients

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