An elderly man allegedly pointed a handgun at a Lake Mary couple during a dispute over a parking space for the disabled at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, according to Orange County sheriff’s records.

The Sheriff’s Office has forwarded the case to the state attorney’s office to decide whether to file...

Apartment and commercial buildings throughout Orlando have never been required to offer recycling.

But proposed changes to the city code could soon change that, requiring more than 10,000 such properties from downtown high rises to Lake Nona businesses to install recycling receptacles over the...

Swatting at mosquitoes is the last thought on most Central Floridians’ minds in the middle of February. But not for local biologists and government officials.

This is the time of year when officials are busy preparing their annual mosquito-control programs before the tiny blood-sucking creatures...

Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer on Thursday offered a message of love to victims, families and the community of Parkland, where 17 students and faculty were killed a year ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The two spoke at the Pulse Interim Memorial, the...

Planning is underway for the 2020 census in Orange County, which stands to reap bigger financial benefits from the updated nationwide head count, conducted every 10 years.

Early projections estimate that the county’s official population will top 1.3 million people, up about 300,000 residents from...

Former UCF Chairman Marcos Marchena resigned Thursday from the Board of Trustees as the university faces further scrutiny from state leaders about how the school spent or planned to spend nearly $85 million intended for operating expenses on construction.

Marchena relinquished the chairmanship...

Eatonville is seeking to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by the city’s former public works director over allegations that he was denied his rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act after a heart procedure and then fired, costing him a spot on the transplant registry.

Abubakr Canady, 56, said...

A man whose Instagram live-streamed encounter with Orange County deputies ended in gunfire Wednesday night fired the first shots, after having earlier dragged his wife from a car by her hair, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The agency released body camera video Thursday afternoon which showed the suspect,...

A comptroller’s audit of private security services at the Orange County courthouse, county administration building and 20 other county-run government venues found flaws in contractually required training and licensing of guards.

The findings, released Thursday by Orange County Comptroller Phil...

A 23-year-old man armed with a gun and live-streaming on Instagram was shot at by three Orange County deputies on Wednesday night, said Sheriff John Mina.

Deputies were called around 8 p.m. to Citra at Windermere apartments, near Winter Garden Vineland and Reams roads, for a domestic violence incident....