Suspect sought after 4-year-old girl fatally shot while sitting in vehicle in...
Tampa police officers planned to go door to door Thursday to hang door tags in the area where 4-year-old Suni Bell was shot and killed Sunday night.
View ArticleUnionized Disney performers agree to employee vaccination mandate
Disney’s performers working under Actors’ Equity Association contracts are included in the company’s mandatory employee vaccination policy after Disney reached an agreement with the union earlier this...
View Article2 Orlando women among 8 indicted in $2 million ‘grandparent scam’
Two Orlando women were among eight people indicted in a federal case that said the accused targeted elderly victims around the nation by telling them their grandchildren were in dire need of help.
View ArticleSeminole County deputies responding to domestic disturbance kill man in shootout
A man was shot and killed after shooting at Seminole County deputies Thursday morning in Sanford, Sheriff Dennis Lemma said.
View ArticleOrlando police say new body cams will improve transparency, accountability
Through upgraded technology, the Orlando Police Department hopes to improve transparency and better respond to calls with a new fleet of body-worn cameras.
View ArticleTropical Storm Ida forms, projected to hit Gulf Coast as hurricane
Tropical Storm Ida formed Thursday evening in the west Caribbean Sea and is projected to target the U.S. Gulf Coast by Sunday as a major hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.
View Article2020 had 102 tropical storms, well above world average, NOAA report says
Tropical storms in 2020 didn’t just break records in the northern Atlantic. It happened everywhere.
View ArticleFormer Windermere cop’s YouTube ‘battlefield’ rant could hurt Capitol riot...
After his recent arrest in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, former Windermere police officer Kevin Tuck has posted incendiary videos on YouTube, calling for others to "rise up."
View Article1 dead, 1 hurt in crash in east Orange County
A male victim is dead and a teenage boy is in serious condition after a vehicle accident Thursday night in east Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
View ArticleVolusia County man killed when dirt bike hits SUV
A 30-year-old Orange City man riding a dirt bike without a helmet or working lights was killed Thursday night when he hit an SUV that drove into his path, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
View ArticleEx-Orange deputy gets 12 years in prison for stabbing wife’s divorce attorney
A former deputy was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for stabbing his wife’s divorce attorney at a Winter Park law firm in 2019.
View ArticlePolice: Man found shot in west Orlando, taken to hospital
Police say a man was found Friday evening with a gunshot wound in west Orlando and taken to the hospital.
View ArticleFlorida reports 1,727 COVID deaths, more than 150,000 cases this week
The state Department of Health reported its weekly COVID-19 numbers and Florida cases and positivity continue to surge while reported deaths are up once again. Check out the latest numbers.
View ArticleJudge grants release to Orlando serial rapist Tommie Lee Andrews from sex...
Andrews, 58, was the first person convicted with DNA evidence in the U.S. during his 1988 trial for two violent rapes. He was originally arrested in several cases in which women alleged an armed and...
View ArticleHurricane Ida takes form and aims at U.S. Gulf Coast with projections to...
Ida grew into a category 1 hurricane Friday afternoon as it made landfall along Cuba’s Isle of Youth, the National Hurricane Center said. It is expected to become a major hurricane by Sunday night...
View ArticleOrlando man pushed barriers into police during Capitol riot, feds say
Robert Flynt Fairchild Jr., 40, is the latest Central Florida resident involved in the ordeal that left five dead. He is facing nine charges, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers.
View ArticleUS uses drone strike, kills Islamic State member in Afghanistan
The strike came amid what the White House called indications that IS planned to strike again as the U.S.-led evacuation from Kabul airport moved into its final days. Biden has set Tuesday as his...
View ArticleTesla on ‘autopilot’ mode strikes FHP cruiser, narrowly misses trooper,...
A Tesla driving on “autopilot” mode hit a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser on Interstate 4 early Saturday morning and nearly hit an FHP trooper who was standing outside the cruiser, an FHP spokeswoman said.
View ArticleSugar growers sue US over Florida reservoir water levels
The federal lawsuits filed this week by Florida Crystals’ Okeelanta Corp., U.S. Sugar and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative say the current Corps plan won’t supply enough water for their fields.
View ArticleHurricane Ida gaining strength as it nears northern U.S. Gulf Coast
Hurricane Ida continues to move across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and it is expected to intensify before reaching the northern Gulf Coast on Sunday.
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