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Sorority sisters, fellow students, even strangers were riveted to the story of the young woman who was hit by a pickup truck near the University of Central Florida campus Feb. 23 as she walked back to her sorority house.

JUST USE SOME CAUTION IF YOU ARE HEADING THROUGH THAT AREA THIS MORNING. NEW FROM OVERNIGHT, FIRE DESTROYS A RESTAURANT IN AN ORANGE COUNTY STRIP MALL.

Five Orlando educators and civic leaders were recognized March 7 at the third annual Blueprint Women of Distinction Awards.

When you think films in Florida, you probably think Iron Man 3 being filmed in Miami and Dolphin Tale being filmed over in Clearwater.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF presents The True Story of the Three Little Pigs from March 27 - April 27, 2014.

Christian groups are distributing NIV Bibles in Orange County's public high schools today.

Rep. Alan Grayson will not be charged after his wife Lolita accused him of battery during a domestic incident Saturday Rep. Grayson will not face domestic battery charges on firstcoastnews.com: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/2014/03/10/grayson-will-not-face-domestic-charges/6249791/ ORLANDO, Fla.

Republican voters in southwest Orange County will pick a nominee Tuesday for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives - a choice that eventually could have implications for the rest of the state.

A vigil was held Sunday for a mother whose life was cut short when she veered her car into a retention pond on her way home from her job at a hotel near Universal Studios.

Unless you plug 'em right in the "sweet spot" - above the nose, dead-center of the forehead - that is, ol' Doc Ruger tells me.

If you are in Orlando right now, you can meet the tea party hero/cold-blooded murderer George Zimmerman at "The Arms Room" on 19048 East Colonial Drive, Orlando FL.

Breanna Klibinski gets her friend Kiera White, right, puts sunscreen on her friend Breanna Klibinski at Cocoa Beach, Fla.

When John Land was elected mayor of Apopka at age 29, Harry S. Truman was president and a gallon of gas was 17 cents.

George Zimmerman is still concerned with his safety since his internationally publicized acquittal on second-degree murder charges after the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin , he told My Fox Orlando on Saturday.

Busch Gardens Tampa's annual Bands, Brew & BBQ festival concludes this weekend with some of the biggest names in music.

ORLANDO, Fla. A Florida judge set a bond of $1.2 million for a pregnant South Carolina woman accused of driving her minivan into the ocean in an attempt to kill her three children.

Florida's growing number of red-light cameras are fueling a war in the Capitol this spring as lawmakers consider whether to place new restrictions on the controversial law-enforcement tactic.

No probable cause to charge Rep. Alan Grayson on firstcoastnews.com: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/08/alan-grayson-domestic-wife-charges/6200253/ UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 15: Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., participates in a news conference calling for no funding of the escalation of the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec.

According to police, on Friday morning just after 7:00 AM, Orange County Deputies responded to an armed robbery at the CVS store located at 9975 Lake Underhill Road.

Two masked gunmen threatened customers, including a child, and employees during a robbery Friday morning at a CVS in Orlando, deputies said.