Confederate General statue no longer welcome in Lake County
After a two-year fight, Edmund Kirby Smith’s future caretakers will have to find a new home for the bronzed Jim Crow-era relic of the Florida-born military leader. Lake County commissioners officially...
View ArticleJogger finds human head along road in St. Petersburg
A jogger in St. Petersburg found a human head on the side of the road while running Tuesday morning, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
View ArticlePine Hills gunshot victim transports himself to hospital, deputies say
A gunshot victim from a shooting in Pine Hills transported himself to Orlando Regional Medical Center just after midnight Tuesday, according to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office report.
View ArticleHurricane center says 70% chance for tropical system off U.S. coast
Chances are good the 2020 hurricane season will get its sixth tropical system as the National Hurricane Center is tracking an area of low pressure over the southeast U.S. that could move over the warm...
View ArticleVolusia sheriff complains after he says state DOH will stop providing...
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood took to Twitter to complain about the halting of state health information to his agency amid the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleOrlando Science Center sets October opening for postponed Pompeii exhibit
Orlando Science Center sets Oct. 26 opening for postponed Pompeii exhibit
View ArticleFlorida adds 9,989 new coronavirus cases for a total of 223,783
Florida reported 9,989 new coronavirus cases Wednesday for a total of 223,783 and 48 new fatalities to bring the death toll to 3,889.
View ArticleSeaWorld Orlando rolling out event with drive-in movies, fireworks
SeaWorld Orlando introduces event with drive-in movies, fireworks, food trucks
View ArticlePassenger dies after crash into semi at toll booth on Florida’s Turnpike
The passenger of a vehicle died after it crashed into the back of a stopped semi-truck at a toll booth on Florida’s Turnpike on Wednesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
View ArticleOrlando hotelier Harris Rosen announces ‘substantial’ layoffs
“Never in the 46-year history of my company would I have envisioned such a drastic decision,” Harris Rosen said in a statement.
View ArticleSt. Cloud police release video of officer shooting suspect in girl’s stabbing
The St. Cloud Police Department on Wednesday released body-worn camera footage of the deadly confrontation, along with interview recordings and reports about the stabbing of a 9-year-old girl, for...
View ArticleMost Orange deputies want to pull endorsement of Sheriff John Mina, union...
About a month from the Orange County sheriff primary election, hundreds of deputies said they did not support their incumbent Sheriff John Mina, with many also expressing widespread morale issues at...
View ArticleDisney firing up ticket sales, hotel booking for 2020 again
Disney World starting ticket sales, hotel booking for 2020 again
View ArticleMacbeth Studio uses PPP cash to help nonprofits, small businesses with...
Macbeth Studio is giving away photography and videography services in an equivalent amount to the PPP funding it received to help companies and organizations that have been hit by the COVID-19...
View ArticleHurricane center says new tropical system could form off US coast
A low-pressure system that slogged its way from Florida to the Atlantic coast this week could become Tropical Depression Six, or if it spins up with sustained winds of at least 39 mph would become...
View ArticleFlorida Democrats return $780,000 in PPP loans after criticism from party...
“The Democratic Party has been criticizing the PPP program” for loans to Trump Organization partners and other corporations, said state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando. “What’s most frustrating about it...
View ArticleZillow Offers is buying homes in Orlando again, but with less personal contact
Zillow Offers, which buys homes directly from owners and then resells them, announced it has resumed buying property in Orlando.
View ArticleCoronavirus hot spot Florida reports 120 new deaths; toll passes 4,000
Florida, one of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots, reported 8,935 new cases Thursday for a total of 232,718 and 120 new fatalities — the most yet — to push the death toll past 4,000, to 4,009. The...
View ArticleUpdates as Disney reopens: Annual passholders preview 2 theme parks
Disney passholders preview coronavirus-inspired changes at Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
View ArticleCentral Florida man survives lightning strike after passerby performs CPR:...
A man in Brevard County was struck by lightning and survived after a man who was driving by performed CPR on him.
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