Bystander urged caution with pregnant woman; Orange deputy tackled him, filed...
A bystander asked Orange County deputies in 2019 to be careful handcuffing a woman because she was pregnant, but Deputy Michael Fuller responded to the man with excessive force, later filing an...
View ArticleStorm strengthens as gusts, rain lash Gulf Coast; Florida panhandle remains...
While the system known as Potential Tropical Cyclone 3 has yet to organize itself enough to earn the name Claudette, it did surge to tropical storm strength Friday before arriving on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
View ArticleWoman indicted in 2020 Winter Park homicide, armed robbery
Elisha Morris was indicted by an Orange County grand jury June 4 and arrested Thursday, according to records. She’s accused of killing Curtis Lamar Johnson on June 29, 2020.
View ArticleDeSantis, Moody seek to scuttle protest law case
Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a measure that the Legislature approved to crack...
View ArticleFlorida COVID resident deaths tick up, but cases lowest reported in more than...
The Florida Department of Health's weekly COVID-19 report shows reported deaths up slightly from the previous week, but new reported infections almost below 10,000, which the state has not seen in more...
View ArticleCourt rules for Florida in cruise case, grants injunction stopping CDC order
A federal court granted a preliminary injunction against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its conditional sail order that has shut down the cruise industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View ArticleTeen dies after being rescued from International Drive hotel pool
A 14-year-old boy died Thursday after the teen was rescued from a hotel pool on International Drive that afternoon, according to emergency responders.
View ArticleBoy, 12, bitten by shark at Bethune Beach in Volusia County, officials say
A 12-year-old boy was bitten by a shark at Bethune Beach Friday afternoon, marking the third shark bite on a Volusia County beach within five days, according to Volusia County Beach Safety officials.
View ArticleRecovering after ‘pretty cool’ shark bite, 12-year-old boy excited to return...
Surgeries have kept 12-year-old Jaivon “Jai” Villamil in a hospital bed for most of the past week after a shark tore into his right leg while surfing, but the rising seventh grader is already wanting...
View ArticleTropical Storm Claudette continues with heavy rain in southeast region, NHC says
Tropical Storm Claudette, the third named storm of the year, continues to dish out heavy rain with gusty winds as it moves toward the southeast region of the United States on Saturday evening,...
View ArticleVA takes first steps toward offering gender-confirmation surgeries,...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is taking the first step toward providing gender-confirmation surgeries through its healthcare network, Secretary Denis McDonough announced at a Pride Month...
View ArticleTropical depression Claudette continues with heavy rain, possible floods in...
Tropical depression Claudette, the third named storm of the year, will restrengthen back into a tropical storm before leaving North Carolina as it continues to move across the southeast region of the...
View Article1 dead, several injured in Father’s Day picnic shooting in Central Florida
A Father’s Day picnic event turned into chaos Sunday night in Sumter County park when a shooting erupted injuring several people.
View ArticleDead man found on the side of Central Florida highway
Deputies are investigating after a driver found a dead man Sunday on the side of a Central Florida highway.
View ArticleWoman shot, killed in west Orlando neighborhood
A woman was killed Sunday night in a west Orlando neighborhood, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
View ArticleTimber Creek High student killed in Alabama car crash
A rising junior at Timber Creek High School was killed recently in a car crash in Alabama, according to Orange County Public Schools.
View ArticleClaudette re-strengthens into tropical storm; hurricane center spots new wave...
Claudette re-strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning before pummeling North Carolina with rain, as the National Hurricane Center also identified a tropical wave with the potential to become...
View ArticleFlorida’s crime rate continued to fall in 2020 — but murders, gun violence...
Statewide data from 2020 shows a decrease in overall crime, including a sizeable drop in property crime, but a slight increase in violent crime.
View ArticleOrange deputies failed to aid man after shooting him during mental health...
Three Orange County deputy sheriffs were disciplined after an internal review found they failed to give proper aid to a mentally ill man after one of the deputies shot him in 2019.
View Article250 gators removed from Disney properties since 2-year-old’s 2016 death
About 250 alligators have been removed from Disney properties since an alligator killed 2-year-old Lane Thomas Graves from the shores of Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa five years ago.
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