With the booming popularity of home-sharing sites such as Airbnb, Seminole County leaders say residents are complaining that homes are being turned into mini-hotels with loud parties, too many cars parked on the streets and excessive numbers of overnight visitors.

On Tuesday, Seminole commissioners...

Four thieves who used sledgehammers to smash cases at a Florida Mall jewelry store Thursday night made off with 17 watches — worth more than $340,000, deputies said.

Four suspects were later arrested on charges of first-degree grand theft and felony criminal mischief: Lorenzo Caldwell, 20; Torren...

Orange County authorities are hoping to identify persons of interest they believe are connected to the shooting of a man at a hookah lounge last Sunday.

A man, whose identity has not been released, was shot the morning of April 14 about 4:40 am near the Sky Hookah Lounge at 10103 East Colonial...

A Cape Canaveral man was killed after the pickup truck he was driving crashed into a tree along Colonial Drive on Friday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Troopers said the 24-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was driving a Ford pickup truck east on Colonial near St. Nicholas...

Mario Perez doesn’t have a car to take him places or a home to call his own.

But he nailed down a job interview this week, and he’s going to look sharp for it, thanks to SALT; a Christian millennial group of volunteers dedicated to helping Orlando’s homeless freshen up.

"I actually put (a job interview)...

The Orlando Housing Authority is the latest Florida agency to strip some public documents from its website over fears it wasn’t complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The authority’s attorney, Ricardo Gilmore, said Thursday the agency is updating the website in hopes of returning meeting...

In an unusual move, a reconfigured Florida Supreme Court reversed a high-court ruling from just three months ago that means partisan elections will remain in place for Orange County sheriff and five other constitutional officers after all.

But the ruling kept in place a provision instituting term...

A rattlesnake found recently in an east Orange County neighborhood has been removed and sent to a serpentarium in St. Cloud, according to a report by Central Florida Fox TV affiliate WOFL-Ch. 35.

The 5 1/2-foot eastern diamondback rattlesnake was discovered in the backyard of Lori Parsons’ home,...

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., hired to “lead change” at UCF after school leaders acknowledged the use or planned misuse of more than $85 million in leftover operating funds for construction, is a finalist for the president’s job at the University of South Carolina.

The University of...

When new downtown Orlando rideshare hubs launch next month, officials hope the presence of popular food trucks parked there will help attract revelers to the designated places to hail an Uber or Lyft.

If the City Council green lights the expanded policy next week, the trucks would be able to park...