Orlando News

Orlando experienced the largest decrease in its violent crime rate in a new study by WalletHub called 2014's Most & Least Recession-Recovered Cities.

Megabus announced Monday it is expanding service to and from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood beginning Aug. 7. The service includes seven daily arrivals and departures.

Thomasville, N.C.-based Carolina Mattress Guild has sold its Orlando manufacturing plant to one of its largest retail customers, Florida-based chain Mattress1One.

Residents in a Parramore neighborhood are outraged that a block party held Saturday night to remember loved ones who have died was broken up by Orlando police dressed in SWAT gear.

"It's been a bit odd," said Ronnie Rukkus, bassist in the Australian punk-rock band The City Shakeup.

The F-4D Phantom jet parked in a hangar at Orlando Executive Airport does not look like much now, its paint faded and scratched, stripped of its engines and instruments.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will recommend raising property taxes on Monday, but he wants everyone to know one thing: The tax hike has nothing to do with the big projects he has championed.

A tow truck operator is accused of illegally towing more than 100 vehicles during last month's Gay Days celebration in Orlando, Florida.

Orlando police attempted to stop a vehicle just before midnight Saturday night in the area of Columbia Street and Goldwyn Avenue, according to watch commander Lt.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that police at the University of Central Florida are investigating an armed home invasion at Knight's Circle, a university-affiliated, off-campus student housing apartment complex.

Roy Ray, 74, and his wife, Joan, 70, stepped lively on the dance floor Saturday to the World War II-era tune "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" as fellow dancers cut a rug around them.

Investigators are also looking into collusion with cab companies who lined up to take the drivers to the tow lot.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) July 26--High-profile small-business lending executive Christopher Hurn has stepped down as chief executive officer of Orlando-based Mercantile Capital Corp. -- the company he co-founded a dozen years ago, officials said Friday.

Orlando police are searching for the man they say is wanted after stabbing a woman he met on an online dating site and forcing her to commit sexual acts.

The owner of a local towing company has been charged with a slew of crimes after being accused of illegally towing vehicles during June's Gay Days events in Orlando.

Two women are dead following a collision with a dump truck near Orlando. The crash happened around 10 a.m. Friday on Boggy Creek Road.

An Orlando police officer was indicted by an Orange County grand jury yesterday on charges he shot into a vehicle in February without justification.

Walt Disney World is among big companies moving toward paying workers at least $10 an hour - a change that experts say will improve the standard of living for the lowest-paid employees and could pressure other employers to raise pay.

Pageant national chair Donna Bozarth said in a statement that the family of the teen who was wrongly crowned has agreed to the proposal, but the unnamed winner's family has not.

Jennifer Richmond, who allegedly told agents she earned $500,000 a year as an upscale "escort," was sentenced to three years in prison.