When Noah Adelman and his wife bought a World War II-era home in Colonialtown North in 2001, the Miami transplants hoped they had left the bustle of South Florida behind for more of a small-town feel.

But in the 15 years since, other small houses like theirs have been torn down to make way for...

John Wilchynski was unfazed when the green-winged Malachite butterfly landed on the bill of his baseball cap Saturday morning.

"They like sweat," said Wilchynski, who has spent the last eight years breeding butterflies at his Dunnellon-based Butterfly Workx company.

While Wilchynski kept his cool...

ZELLWOOD -- Amy Colyer Frogley stood on the wide portico of Orange County's newest addition to the National Register of Historic Places, a 41-room, 13-fireplace manor built over a century ago as a Pittsburgh steel tycoon's winter retreat.

"Welcome to Sydonie Mansion," she said, inviting a visitor...

It's a suitcase in the median of a busy Orlando road, a cardboard box that appeared overnight next to a clothing drop container near a high school or an odd package left on the side of a neighborhood street.

The items look different or out of place and peak the curiosity of vigilant passers-by....

A zookeeper screamed for help into her radio before she was fatally attacked by a Malayan tiger and the 350-pound animal crushed her neck before her co-workers could reach her, an autopsy report released Friday showed.

The Palm Beach County medical examiner determined that Stacey Konwiser, 38,...

A Winter Garden pastor is facing accusations of running a gambling operation out of his garage and serving alcohol to two underage brothers, according to an arrest affidavit.

Christian Raburn, who once had a television show on a Christian network, was arrested Tuesday after the brothers gave statements...

In the three months since Mayra Alvarez lost her daughter Amanda in the Pulse nightclub shooting, she has built a new extended family: other people whose loved ones also were killed or injured at Pulse.

Alvarez drives to Kissimmee from her Tampa-area home every Thursday to meet them. Those who...

Authorities arrested two men who they say robbed about a dozen businesses at gunpoint over the last 10 days in Volusia, Seminole and Orange counties.

Alfonse Combs, 24, and Jaseary Brown, 18, are being held at the Orange County Jail without bond. Both are charged with armed robbery, while Brown...

Welton Cadwell said he intended to establish trust as chairman of the region's toll road agency after it was roiled by controversy in 2014.

But soon he will be giving up his seat and chairmanship on the Central Florida Expressway Authority board after only two years.

Cadwell said he thinks the board...

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings warned Congress on Wednesday terrorists have changed the way they operate by using those already in the U.S. as their soldiers.

Demings spoke before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing to explore how to prevent home-grown terrorism...