Teenager grazed by bullet in drive-by shooting, Orlando police say
A teenager was injured in a drive-by shooting near the Washington Shores neighborhood in Orlando on Wednesday, police said.
View ArticleCategory 4 Hurricane Laura up to 145 mph, threatens ‘unsurvivable’ 20 foot...
Hurricane Laura kept growing into a massive Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds as it’s set to slam into the Gulf Coast on Wednesday night with “catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash...
View ArticleRequests rejected for Florida Mall security footage of deputy shooting...
Orange County Sheriff John Mina said this week his office will release additional video of a deputy shooting a man in the back at the Florida Mall, even as the agency rejected a request by the Orlando...
View ArticleSeaWorld, Aquatica returning to 7-day schedule
SeaWorld and Aquatica soon will be open seven-days-per-week again
View ArticleFlorida reports 3,269 new coronavirus cases, 135 more deaths
Florida added 3,269 coronavirus cases Thursday to push the statewide total to 611,991 infected. With 135 new virus fatalities reported Thursday, 10,868 Florida residents are now dead.
View ArticleWatch live: Gov. DeSantis coronavirus and business discussion
Gov. Ron DeSantis leads a business discussion from Port Tampa Bay on Thursday.
View ArticleDisney: Costumes will be OK for Magic Kingdom visitors next month
Walt Disney World will loosen no-costumes rule for Magic Kingdom visitors moving toward Halloween.
View ArticleDeSantis overstepped authority in picking justice but no going back now,...
Gov. Ron DeSantis exceeded his authority when he appointed Renatha Francis to the Florida Supreme Court even though she didn’t meet the legal requirements, the court ruled Thursday. But there’s no...
View ArticleLeesburg man arrested for having gun, drugs on high school campus, police say
A 30-year-old man was found walking around Leesburg High School with a gun and nearly 6 grams of cocaine Thursday morning, according to Capt. Joe Iozzi, a spokesman for the Leesburg Police Department.
View ArticleLaura weakens to tropical storm, leaves deadly path of destruction up Gulf Coast
Hurricane Laura weakened to a tropical storm Thursday afternoon after paving a path of destruction throughout Louisiana, with at least four deaths blamed on the storm.
View ArticleCentral Florida coronavirus cases county-by-county
A county-by-county look at positive coronavirus cases including Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Volusia, Brevard, Polk and Sumter counties.
View ArticleDriver arrested in fatal Christmas Eve crash in Leesburg
After a short chase Wednesday night, Lake County deputy sheriffs and federal marshals arrested a fugitive wanted on charges of DUI/manslaughter in a Christmas Eve crash, which killed three members of a...
View Article‘It was just me and one of the bad guys:’ Video shows deputy talking about...
The footage of Deputy James Montiel was among hours of additional video released Thursday in the Aug. 7 shooting at the Florida Mall. All of the newly public clips were recorded by deputies who...
View ArticleDeputies had the man they wanted a month before Salaythis Melvin shooting....
Vanshawn Sands, the man authorities were seeking to arrest when they shot and killed Salaythis Melvin outside the Florida Mall, had been cooperating with detectives investigating his role in an earlier...
View ArticleNOAA’s newest hurricane hunter pilots her way through record breaking...
Lt. Commander Danielle Varwig is the NOAA hurricane hunters' newest pilot, who cut her teeth on flying over Hurricane Marco and Hurricane Laura.
View ArticleFlorida reports 3,815 new coronavirus cases, 89 more deaths
Florida added 3,815 coronavirus cases Friday to push the statewide total to 615,806 infected. With 89 new virus fatalities reported Friday — the smallest daily reported increase in resident deaths...
View ArticleFormer ward of disgraced guardian Rebecca Fierle won his rights back. Then he...
Months after regaining the rights he lost when Rebecca Fierle became his guardian, James “Jack” Meagher died Aug. 13 of pancreatic cancer. Meagher, of Winter Springs, first contacted the Orlando...
View ArticleWatch live: Gov. DeSantis leads coronavirus and aviation discussion
Gov. Ron DeSantis leads a coronavirus and aviation discussion from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday.
View ArticleHurricane center keeps eye on two systems in the Atlantic
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical waves moving west in the Atlantic, both of which have chances of becoming the next tropical depression or tropical storm.
View ArticleOrange deputies investigating shooting that killed 18-year-old
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of an 18-year-old man fatally shot Thursday afternoon, west of downtown Orlando.
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