Winter Park Fire-Rescue Department’s community paramedicine program has just finished its first year, and it’s delivering on its promise to reduce the number of unnecessary 911 calls.

The city’s top 911 caller had dialed for help 19 times in the first six months of 2017. After the implementation...

As a new national memorial dedicated to victims of lynching and racial terror prepares to open this week, Ocoee continues to struggle with a notorious attack on blacks that occurred in the city nearly a century ago.

City leaders and others who have studied the tragedy can’t even agree on how many...

The unemployment rates in Orange County and Seminole County dropped to 3.2 percent for March, down from 3.3 percent in February, the lowest in more than 10 years.

The March unemployment rate for the metro area, which includes Osceola County and Lake County, was just a bit higher at 3.3 percent...

Two days after Vanessa Cocly was last seen by her family — and hours before they reported her missing — her ex-boyfriend was at Cash America Pawn on Orange Blossom Trail selling a .380 caliber handgun, court records show.

The next day, April 3, Christian Ruben Valentin Penchi boarded a JetBlue...

KISSIMMEE – Gov. Rick Scott took questions about Puerto Rico, Maria evacuees and the FEMA housing situation from pastors, small business owners and community leaders at a Senate campaign event at Misión La Cosecha Friday.

Scott’s office also announced he would visit the island on Monday to meet...

Orlando will be the host for a nationally televised debate between Republican gubernatorial candidates.

Fox News Channel and the Republican Party of Florida are partnering for the June 28 event, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center.

The debate will be moderated...

New Orlando resident and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham pledged to take on for-profit schools, pharmaceutical companies and President Donald Trump during a town-hall meeting in Orlando on Thursday night.

The event was the first of a series of town halls hosting all four Democratic...

The results of a special election for state House District 44 last year had Democrats admitting they dropped the ball over a west Orange County seat they had a chance to take away from the Republicans.

This year, though, the race has attracted four Democratic candidates, ranging from last year’s...

Three students at Oak Ridge High School were arrested after a fight at a nearby gas station erupted into a “riot” that drew 80 to 100 students, an arrest report said.

The fight happened at the Chevron gas station on Oak Ridge Road, across Winegard Road from the high school, about 7 a.m. Wednesday.

A 21-year-old UCF student was killed Wednesday night when he was struck by a vehicle on Alafaya Trail, officials said.

The Florida Highway Patrol identified the pedestrian killed near Carrigan Avenue in Seminole County just before 9 p.m. as Reuel Buchanan, of Orlando.

The University of Central...