Orange County recreation officials have put up warning signs in Shadow Bay Park to alert visitors not to feed wildlife after receiving complaints about aggressive squirrels.

A toddler was scratched on her back and arm by a squirrel which jumped on her at a playground in the 11-acre park, located...

Orlando police Chief John Mina said Wednesday his department is using Amazon’s high-tech facial-recognition software strictly within the department’s headquarters and only testing it on several officers there.

“It’s all internal,” Mina said. “We’re not tracking citizens.”

Mina spoke about the pilot...

The Orlando Science Center, the Orlando Ballet and the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida this week were awarded a total of $1.2 million in tourist-tax grants to improve their venues.

The awards, approved Tuesday by Orange County commissioners, are important to the nonprofit...

A driver accused of traveling the wrong way on State Road 528 in 2011 — causing a crash that claimed the life of a 45-year-old man and injured his teenage son — was sentenced to two years in state prison Tuesday, records show.

Wade Liles, 49, pleaded no contest to a charge of leaving the scene...

It’s been 12 years since Laurie McElroy Broadus’ 18-year-old son died in a spontaneous street race in Orlando.

Shawn Michael Broadus drove an Acura RSX. On April 11, 2006, he was racing against another vehicle in traffic on Curry Ford Road by Semoran Boulevard when a car rammed his from behind,...

In early May, a 21-year-old woman was booked into the Orange County Jail on a charge she drove with a suspended license. Her license was suspended because she had four unpaid tickets — most for driving with a suspended license or an expired tag.

She spent a week in jail before posting $500 bond.

Orange County commissioners voted Tuesday to limit parking to one side of the street in Avalon Park after numerous residents complained that emergency responders, garbage trucks and school buses were delayed in reaching them, blocked by cars lining both sides of the community’s narrow streets.

Val Demings introduced a bipartisan bill Tuesday to protect the U.S. election process from Russian interference.

The “Defend Against Russian Disinformation Act,” co-sponsored with Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y, would “strengthen federal cybersecurity, support intelligence...

In the lead up to the two-year observance of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the onePulse Foundation has announced its schedule for a Week of Remembrance of the 49 killed.

From June 6 to June 12, a series of events are scheduled including a Rainbow Run, a ringing of the church bells at First United...

The Florida A&M University National Alumni Association will host a candidate forum for gubernatorial candidates at their annual convention in Orlando.

The FAMU NAA’s Gubernatorial Candidates Forum is scheduled to be held on Saturday at the Rosen Centre on International Drive.

Tallahassee Mayor...