A man is hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot late Monday night at the Villa Tuscany Apartments, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies responded to a shooting at 723 Sherwood Terrace Dr. shortly before midnight. When they arrived, they found a vehicle trying...

A Checkers fast-food restaurant employee was not injured after his brother shot a semi-automatic firearm twice in the air during a disagreement late Monday night, according to the Orlando Police Department.

The incident occurred shortly after 9 p.m. at the restaurant at 4400 Curry Ford Rd. The...

He wasn’t the party favorite going in, but now the leaders of the GOP in the Florida House are coalescing behind Bobby Olszewski after his primary win last week.

House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O’ Lakes, and Republican committee chairs Jose Oliva, Chris Sprowls and Paul Renner will host a...

An Orlando man was killed and three people were injured after a chain reaction crash on State Road 528 Friday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Troopers say the first accident happened when 31-year-old Charles Grubbs was involved in a rear-end collision with 37-year-old Gregory Velez...

The sight of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white supremacists chanting and marching in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend has ignited a debate in Central Florida and around the nation about hatred and the limits of free speech.

On Tuesday, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center...

“For once a cop, always a cop,” Orange County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Louis W. Crooms wrote in his retirement letter 27 years ago.

Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Jane Watrel said the sentiment was a testament to the character of the man who joined the agency more than 50 years ago as one of the first...

The wrought-iron bench planted in the grass where Danny Clark’s 10-year-old daughter was fatally injured was meant to honor the freckled child who loved the beach, but the seat also should serve as a reminder for motorists to be careful and watch for kids as the new school year starts.

“Take a second,...

A grimy, diamond-studded ring is one of the last remnants of a life that Orange County Sheriff’s Office detectives have to go on to figure out the identity of a woman found severely decomposed in a Tymberskan apartment last week.

Investigators hope the ring — with its golden center lined with diamonds...

Apopka ordered a “do-over on its splash pad bids.

The decision to re-bid followed complaints by Ryan Fitzgerald, owner of a construction company who submitted the low bid by $162,000 but lost in the first go-round.

City Council members chose another Apopka-based company, Accu-Tech, favoring its design...

A battle has been brewing among airboat pilots in the usually placid waters of the St. Johns, and it could affect commercial watercraft across Orange County.

On the eastern county border along State Road 50, privately owned Airboat Rides at Midway and as many as seven independent airboat operators...