About two hours after one of his deputies shot and killed 22-year-old Salaythis Melvin at the Florida Mall, Orange County Sheriff John Mina confirmed that a body-worn camera had recorded the incident. The Sheriff’s Office has since refused to make the footage public, even after it was revealed that Melvin had been shot in the back.

On Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office identified the man whose body was found by a Geneva roadside Monday and shared the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.

Orlando police arrested an armed man who threatened to shoot employees at a chiropractor’s office near downtown Thursday afternoon, which caused nearby Lake Highland Preparatory School to be locked down.

Tropical Storm Josephine continued its track toward the Caribbean islands with little change in strength on Thursday afternoon, according to the National Hurricane Center in its 5 p.m. update.

Florida added 6,236 coronavirus cases Thursday to push the statewide total to 557,137 infected. With 148 new virus fatalities reported Thursday, 8,913 Florida residents are now dead.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested five men this week believed to have been trying to lure a child online into sex.

A man who thought he had unloaded a gun before pointing it at another man and pulling the trigger at an Orlando apartment complex has been arrested on a manslaughter charge, police said.

The Innocence Project of Florida asked the state Board of Executive Clemency last month to pardon Amanda Brumfield or commute her remaining sentence, arguing she was wrongfully convicted of a crime disproven by medical and scientific evidence.

Meteorologists are expecting Tropical Depression 11 to become the tenth tropical storm of the year sometime today as the system strengthens, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 5 a.m. Thursday update.

Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the return to school for some districts across the state, but warned against being swayed by negative data reported by the Department of Health during a coronavirus address from Tallahassee on Wednesday