The Orange County Sheriff's Office will sell more than 70 cars, motorcycles and jet skis at an Auto Auction on Saturday, February 4, at the Sheriff's Office Central Operation Fleet Management Parking area on Colonial Drive.
The man who was shot dead by a deputy sheriff three weeks ago, has been identified. The dead man is 21-year-old Jose Simon-Dominguez, a Hispanic, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.
North Carolina Tech Preparatory Christian Academy, located in Charlotte, North Carolina, has compiled a record of 76 wins and only six losses over the last seven years playing and beating almost any and every school that agreed to compete against them.
Ten people died after smoke from a brush fire led to multiple crashes on Interstate 75 early on Sunday morning. Florida Highway Patrol said, at least 12 passenger cars and approximately seven semi-trucks were involved in several crashes near mile marker 379 in Alachua County.
It's been two months since the Orlando Magic General Manager Otis Smith removed Dwight Howard off the trading block in hopes of keeping his All-Star center long term.
Harlem-born R&B singer Keith Sweat, at a special "Neo Soul" concert, rocked the massive crowd to close out the 23rd Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival on Saturday night.
The Orlando Ballet is getting set to thrill audiences yet again with its performance of Battle of the Sexes III. The striking finish to this epic trilogy takes place Feb. 10-12 at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced today, the "MiPlato" initiative at National Supermarket in Tampa, Florida, another dimension of the "Let's Move" campaign, aimed at encouraging Americans to eat healthy foods.
The driver of a 1998 Buick, who swerved to avoid another vehicle and ended up hitting two children as they boarded a school bus, was not at fault, Florida Highway Patrol said.
In perhaps his most assertive State of the Union address yet, President Obama laid out a vision for rebuilding the U.S. economy, underpinned by economic fairness, telling the nation the defining issue is, how to keep the promise of the American dream alive. "...The basic American promise is that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement," the president told a packed House chamber of lawmakers and invited guests.
Statistics show that nearly half of Florida's foster youth fail their grade-level FCAT by the time they turn 17. But, despite this, a bill that would take two years off the time young adults may receive a state stipend in the state's foster care system is making its way before a House panel Tuesday.
