A 62-year-old man was shot to death Sunday evening in south Orlando, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

The unidentified man was shot in the torso around 6 p.m. in the 1400 block of 35th Street near Rio Grande Avenue, said Lt. Ken Taylor. The victim was taken to Orlando Regional Medical...

Lawyers for Markeith Loyd, accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and an Orlando police officer, are asking the judge in his case to step aside, in part because he authorized wiretaps used by police during the manhunt for Loyd.

Chief Judge Frederick Lauten signed a warrant authorizing wiretaps...

The towering flames had already begun burning his new pickup truck and fence when Christopher Ross rushed outside Thursday morning after hearing the crackling.

He was able to douse the flames with a hose, saving his Colonialtown home from damage — though he hasn’t slept since.

“It was scary,” Ross...

Two former employees of Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh alleged a laundry list of misbehavior — from misusing office resources to describing fellow politicians in vulgar terms — in wide-ranging depositions conducted by former Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry in late 2017.

Perry...

Orange County GOP chair Charles Hart held off a challenge from county Trump campaign chair Randy Ross at Thursday’s Republican Executive Committee board elections.

Hart and Ross both gave emotional, fiery speeches to the more than 100 voting members at the Marks Street Senior Recreation Complex...

The Winter Park public relations consultant criticized this week for comments she made about families of the Parkland school shooting victims and a South Florida reporter was hired by the Broward school district on a recommendation from a counterpart in Orange County.

Sara Brady’s firm specializes...

Gov. Rick Scott spent almost $64 million of his own money to win by just 0.08 percentage points in his U.S. Senate race, according to Thursday’s latest campaign filing with the Federal Election Commission.

The final tally includes more than $12 million Scott personally spent in the final few weeks...

A young woman lay mostly naked and bloodied in the study room of a University of Central Florida fraternity after a 2016 tailgate party, a man she didn’t know shaking her awake.

Just three months into her freshman year, she said she was drunk from spending most of the November morning sipping mixed...

An 11-year-old girl, apparently startled by a barking dog, stepped off a sidewalk and into a road in northwest Orange County and was hit by a car this morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The girl suffered serious injuries and was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

The accident...

The Lynx bus that stalled last month — prompting its driver to exit the vehicle, where he was hit and killed by another bus — was tested for battery trouble three days before the fatal accident and had a history of other maintenance issues, according to records.

However, Lynx officials on Thursday...