Orange County News

Sandy Klein, triage nurse for Big Bend Hospice, was awarded the 2013 Carol Pluchino Gaeta-Jaffee Award for Nursing Excellence.

The public is eating up Ms. Cheese Sticks. The TV commercial featuring a SunRail passenger singing about cheese sticks has earned criticism from potential riders and some Volusia County officials, who said the annoying passenger doesn't sell the benefits of the new commuter rail.

As reported by WESH News in Orlando yesterday, Orange County residents found themselves facing a "rush to judgment" with a late-May special election recommended - at a cost to taxpayers of more than a million dollars - to decide whether proposed big changes should be made to the county charter.

That's more than 500 people slain since 2008, when those numbers peaked. But those killings are not spread evenly among the 12 law enforcement agencies that investigate them.

Former state Rep. Eric Eisnaugle took a step closer to returning to Tallahassee Tuesday, winning the Republican primary in a special election for an open Florida House seat.

A 93-year-old Florida man believed to be the country's oldest mayor was up for re-election on Tuesday, seeking a record 20th term in office in a central Florida city, where he faces opposition for the first time in more than a decade.

The first phase of the project will include trains from DeBary in Volusia County to Sand Lake Road in Orange County.

WE START WITH BREAKING NEWS, A HORRIBLE STORY UNFOLDING IN ORANGE COUNTY WHERE WE LEARNED THREE BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND IN AN APARTMENT THAT CAUGHT FIRE OVERNIGHT.

Greetings, OBJ readers! In the March 7 issue of Orlando Business Journal, I took a look at some notable Orange County construction projects that finished and began in 2013.

TO THE FLORIDA TURNPIKE WHERE WE HAVE CONSTRUCTION. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING IN ORANGE COUNTY WHERE FIRE FORCED DOZENS OF PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES.

After surviving one of the most contested Florida House races in 2012, Joe Saunders can expect a much easier assignment in 2014.

It's that time again when the wearin' of the green tells us that St. Patrick's Day is once again upon us.

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.

Orange County's government will look into hiring a mediator March 11 to negotiate a deal between the county and the school board.

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.

The Arms Room, who booked George Zimmerman to make a guest appearance held a gun show Saturday after their location in East Orange County.

They fly through the air with the greatest of ease, but those daring old aircraft at the upcoming VAC Warbird Airshow didn't take flight on a whim from their pilots.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Orange County deputies arrested a man they said was driving around neighborhoods taking pictures of young girls and trying to lure them.

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

Should government funds be spent trying to educate severely disabled children like the late Ethan Rediske , who was severely brain-damaged, blind and confined to a wheelchair? Andrea Rediske, his mom, explains in this powerful post why the answer is "yes" - but why insisting on giving him and other severely disabled children standardized tests is ... (more)