Orlando police say man who reported finding woman dead in woods killed her
Detectives say Gafford actually met Emery on April 19, two days before he claimed he found her body, at a bus stop. He went into the nearby wooded area and killed her, said OPD spokeswoman Autumn Jones.
View ArticleBystander 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, parts of the central Gulf Coast started experiencing tropical storm conditions...
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 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 in southeast region,...
Claudette, the third named storm of the year, is now a tropical depression and continues its path toward the southeast region of the United States with heavy rain and gusty winds on Saturday night,...
View ArticleTropical depression Claudette to restrengthen back into tropical storm before...
Tropical depression Claudette, the third named storm of the year, will restrengthen back into a tropical storm before leaving North Carolina as it exits Georgia and continues to move across South...
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 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 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 ArticleBrother-in-law of woman fatally shot in west Orlando arrested in her killing
The brother-in-law of a woman shot and killed in a west Orlando neighborhood Sunday night was arrested Monday in her killing, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
View ArticleClaudette dissipates over ocean; hurricane center spots new wave in Atlantic
After re-strengthening into a tropical storm Monday morning and pummeling North Carolina with rain, Claudette continued its northeast course and dissipated into a low-pressure trough over the Atlantic...
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.
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