Kissimmee man feds say had over 2,300 child porn photos sentenced to prison
A 49-year-old Kissimmee man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday for distributing large quantities of child pornography online.
View ArticleDisney World workers start petition urging theme park to delay reopening
Some Disney World workers are pleading with theme park executives to reconsider plans to reopen in July, following days of record-number cases of COVID-19 infections that pushed the statewide total...
View ArticleMedical examiner identifies prisoner who died after ‘use of force’ by...
A 51-year-old man serving a four-year sentence for showing a knife to a Target security guard after shoplifting died Friday after a “use of force” incident at Lake Correctional Institution involving...
View ArticleDeputies find dead man in southeast Orlando home while investigating hit-and-run
After police traced a car involved in a hit-and-run to a home near southeast Orlando Monday evening, deputies found a man dead inside the residence, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
View ArticleDespite coronavirus pandemic disruption, UCF prisoner education program eyes...
Like most educational programs during the coronavirus pandemic, the Florida Prison Education Project has had to adapt to a new way of reaching its students. But for a program that teaches inmates at a...
View ArticleIntegrity Florida launches new website to help the public counter corruption
Integrity Florida, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute, has launched a new anti-corruption website with the goal of helping Floridians hold government accountable.
View ArticleHurricane center tracks newly formed subtropical storm in Atlantic
The 2020 hurricane season has another formed system on its hands as Subtropical Depression Four continued to churn Tuesday in the north Atlantic off the coast of Canada.
View ArticleCentral Florida in store for more severe weather Tuesday
Well it is Florida and officially summer after all, but the National Weather Service said Central Florida can expect more severe weather by Tuesday afternoon and evening.
View ArticleSt. Augustine to remove Confederate monument
Another Confederate monument is coming down in Florida as the St. Augustine City Commission voted 3-2 to remove a war memorial from a historic downtown plaza.
View ArticleKnights Pub near UCF has alcohol license suspended after employees, patrons...
The Knights Pub’s alcoholic beverage license has been suspended after social distancing measures were not enforced and more than 40 customers and employees have tested positive for coronavirus.
View ArticleOne dead, several with serious injuries after three-car accident on Florida’s...
One person is dead and several more injured after a three-car crash on Florida’s Turnpike on Monday evening.
View Article3 injured in Sanford drive-by shooting, police looking for suspects
Three people were injured in a drive-by shooting Saturday in Sanford, but no suspects have been identified, police said.
View ArticleFlorida reports 64 more coronavirus deaths, nearly 3,300 new cases
A day after passing 100,000 positive cases for COVID-19, the Florida Department of Health reported nearly 3,300 more while the death toll rose to 3,237.
View ArticleOrlando Walmart closes for sanitation during coronavirus pandemic
The store at 8108 S. John Young Parkway was set to close at 2 p.m. Tuesday and reopen at 7 a.m. Thursday.
View ArticleOrange County man’s lament after arrest in killings of wife, son: ‘Lord what...
Detectives say Smith Rivera killed his wife Jodi Rivera and their 21-year-old son, Matthew Rivera, in their home in the Whisper Lakes Estates subdivision. Court records reveal new details about the...
View ArticleSeminole Tax Collector Joel Greenberg indicted, accused of stalking election...
Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg has been indicted on a federal stalking charge, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
View ArticleRally demands Lake County prosecutors charge officer in prisoner death
Dozens of people gathered at the Lake County prosecutors office Tuesday demanding that officials arrest and charge the officer responsible for the death of a 51-year-old inmate at a Clermont state...
View ArticleUniversal Orlando lays off unspecified number of workers
Universal Orlando lays off theme park workers after reopening from coronavirus shutdown
View Article1 injured in shooting at Orlando gas station
A shooting at a gas station in the Rio Grande Park neighborhood in south Orlando Tuesday night left one person injured, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
View ArticlePonce de Leon statue in Brevard County vandalized: report
A statue in Brevard County commemorating the landing of Ponce de Leon in Florida has been vandalized.
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