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(News | Source: Reuters.com) Disney will build a $6 million, 15,000 square-foot medical facility in Walt Disney World for their employees. The company reports that more than 40,000 of the resorts nearly 60,000 employees are on the company’s health care plan. The facility will be exclusively for those on the plan and will open in [...]

(News | Source: WESH) Mary Ann Richardson, 63 and from Pennsylvania, was arrested Sunday after trying to enter the Walt Disney World Resorts with a loaded handgun. Security found a Silver Beretta .32 hand gun, with seven live rounds, in her purse along with a knife. Richardson said she forgot she was carrying the gun [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) A new 300 seat night club is opening at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort named Rix Lounge. The club will offer house music, specialty drinks and tapas-style appetizers. It will be Disney’s first night club outside the Downtown Disney area and the Boardwalk. Rix Lounge will be open from 5 p.m. [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) Disney Cruise Line will continue having Port Canaveral as its home base for both ships in 2009. This will end the four-year period where one of the ships to the pacific and Mediterranean. The Magic will return to the port and spend a year in the Caribbean. Additionally, the ship [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) A 71 year old man died after having a heart attack on a Disney bus headed to the Magic Kingdom last week. Around 5 p.m. on Friday the man fell unconscious on the bus. The driver pulled over at the Magic Kingdom toll plaza where Reedy Creek paramedics were unable [...]

(News | Source: Playthings.com) The Walt Disney Internet Group has purchased iParenting Media which hosts a wide array of professional and user-generated content. The site includes thousands of articles and experts along with hundreds of active mothers on its message boards. Members of iParenting will be integrated into Disney Online. “iParenting has built a strong, [...]

(News | Source: PR Newswire) The Walt Disney Company is building a new resort at Walt Disney World for pets. Best Friends Pet Care Inc. has signed an agreement to build a luxury pet resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. The facility will offer a full range of pet hospitality including dog and cat [...]

(News | Source: Orange County Register) The residential zoning plan has been dropped near the Disneyland resort. The City Council reversed its decision to allow homes in the Anaheim Resort tourist area and pulled the plan off the June ballot. Disney has been fighting the plan since it would build low income housing and apartments [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) A 72 year old man fell outside of a restaurant at the Magic Kingdom has died due to his injuries last week. The man was taken to the hospital after the fall where he later passed.

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) Walt Disney World could be labeled as a ‘high-risk’ target under new anti-terrorism rules used to tighten the nation’s chemical stockpiles. The resort would have to report more information about the chemicals stored at the parks to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Hydrogen Peroxide, used as a disinfectant, is [...]

(Rumor | Source: Gizmodo) Spaceship Earth’s update is said to feature Steve Jobs creating the Apple Computer in his garage but does not include co-founder Steve Wozniak. The scene takes place in a garage with a bearded man working on an early prototype of a computer.

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) Spaceship Earth will begin soft-openings on Tuesday, December 4th. The ride will feature a new story overlay, new technology and a whole new soundtrack created by Bruce Broughton. The ride additionally will feature new show scenes, lighting, costumes, set decorations, interactive features and a new narrator, Academy Award winning actress [...]

(News | Source: Walt Disney Company) The Walt Disney Company has revealed a new layout for Walt Disney World website today.

(News | Source: Autobloggreen.com) No, not “Van” from Netcot – “van” as in a car. Citroën began selling a Nemo van. The van features orange and white paint in a very untraditional format. According to the company, the car is like Nemo, the fish. Its small, a big asset and can nip in and out [...]