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The cases of Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman, two stories that gripped Central Florida and the world, will continue to make headlines in 2013. The appeal of Anthony's convictions of lying to law enforcement will receive TV coverage on Jan. 8. The case will be heard in the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach. The movie "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" will premiere Jan. 19 on Lifetime. The film is based on Jeff Ashton's book, and he will be played by Rob Lowe. I hear people calling for boycotts of the movie, but it cannot be seen as favorable to Anthony in any way. Later in the year, Zenaida Gonzalez's defamation suit against Anthony could go to trial.

The birth certificates of American citizens born in Puerto Rico are set to expire July 1, and the government has already started accepting applications for new ones, which will cost $5 for the original and $4 for each additional certificate. The fee will be waived for people 60 or older and veterans. Here's how Puerto Ricans living in Florida or other parts of the U.S. mainland can request their certificates: Online •Online applicants will have to provide an e-mail account and offer payment using a Visa or MasterCard credit card.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A South Florida flight attendant has been charged with raping a 10-year-old boy more than 100 times. Rafael Padilla-Cruz of Fort Lauderdale surrendered to police in Bridgeport , Conn. after being served with an extradition warrant in Florida. The Connecticut Post reports that the 22-year-old Padilla-Cruz was charged with 156 counts of first-degree sexual assault and 156 counts of risk of injury to a minor. His lawyer, Richard Meehan, said his client vehemently denies that he engaged in any inappropriate conduct with anyone.

A little more than a week after Universal Orlando raised its theme-park ticket prices, Walt Disney World followed — by boosting the price of its most basic ticket to $1 more than its smaller rival. A one-day, single-park ticket to one of Disney World's four theme parks will now cost $89, an increase of 4.7 percent from the previous $85. The same ticket to a Universal Orlando theme park costs $88. It was one of a host of price increases Disney World announced Friday afternoon.

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Here are the lottery results for Wednesday's drawings. The winning numbers were: Powerball 5-16-22-23-29 PB: 6 Jackpot: $550 million Florida Lotto 7-12-15-20-34-49 Xtra multiplier: 5 Jackpot: $3 million Results: Pending — check back for updates. Fantasy 5 6-9-11-32-34

Question: I am a woman in my 40s who recently developed red spots on my legs. These began to spread and now cover most of my legs. They do not itch or hurt but are very unsightly.I went to a dermatologist who told me I have something called Schamburg's disease and there is not much that can be done for it.Do I have to live with these spots from now on?Answer: Schamburg's disease is one of several progressive, pigmented purpuric dermatoses. This sounds like a mouthful, but all it means is a skin disorder characterized by the developement of red or purple spots that may become progressively worse with time.

Disney World has re-introduced an early year ticket deal for Florida residents. The "Wild for 3" pass offers three days in its theme parks for $99. There are limitations. The tickets must be purchased by May 21 and used by May 24 — and not during the blackout periods of Feb. 18-20 and April 1-13. The tickets are not park-hoppers — that is, you are limited one park per day. They are valid for all four Disney World theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom.

The business of building condos for Northerners retiring to Florida collapsed in the housing bust, but one unusual Lake County development is an exception: a gated community that caters to Indian immigrants buying into that last piece of the American dream. ShantiNiketan, a condo complex in Tavares , may be the only retirement development in the U.S where residents dine on Indian cuisine, meditate in a prayer room stocked with Hindu statues and enjoy Bollywood movie nights.

A Walt Disney World janitor found three hand grenades at Downtown Disney Wednesday, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. Investigators said the hollowed-out grenades posed no danger. They were found in a parking lot in an area open only to employees about 7:30 p.m., authorities said. Deputies removed them at about 10 p.m. and said they would blow them up to be certain they couldn't hurt anyone. Known as dummy or inert hand grenades, similar grenades have been used for training soldiers and have become popular military collector's items.

Hedge funds, investors and institutional buyers continue swooping into Metro Orlando to purchase hundreds of bank-owned homes each month, even though the deals are not what they used to be. Back in 2008, the country's biggest lenders were discounting prices on their foreclosed homes by about 25 percent, compared with the properties' market value. But by last year, those price breaks had shriveled to about 3 percent, according to national sales data compiled by the research company RealtyTrac Inc. In four-county Metro Orlando, a RealtyTrac snapshot of more than 1,300 foreclosure sales in July and August revealed an average discount of 4 percent below the homes' market value - only slightly more than what banks are shaving off repossessed homes nationwide.

Does anyone need a 15,000-foot landing strip? How about a place to assemble rocket ships? Or a parachute-packing plant? An array of aerospace tracking antennas? A launchpad? Make us an offer, says NASA, which is quietly holding a going-out-of-business sale for the facilities used by its space-shuttle program. The last shuttle flight ended in July 2011, when Atlantis made its final touchdown. That orbiter, like its sisters Discovery and Endeavour, is now a museum piece. As soon as some remaining cleanup and wind-down are finished at Kennedy Space Center, the shuttle program will be history.

A 20-year-old Oviedo man was accused Thursday of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old Seminole County high school girl for three to six months and keeping pornographic images of her on his cellphone. Burton Yang faces a slew of charges, including lewd or lascivious battery on a victim between the ages of 12 and 15. Oviedo police said Yang provided the girl with a smart phone so they could communicate with each other and once picked her up at her high school and brought her to his house on Heirloom Rose Place for sex. "He then took the victim back to school before classes were dismissed," police said in a report.