Orange County News

Joshua's teachers and counselors were certain it was the latter. They reported his parents at least three times to the state's child abuse hotline.

The Orange County mayor's race between incumbent Teresa Jacobs and Val Demings is officially nonpartisan, but Demings is having none of that.

ORLANDO, Fla. - WFTV learned one of the former Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University band members, who was charged with manslaughter in the death of drum major Robert Champion, is no longer facing charges.

El mural con la imagen del A dolo hispano Roberto Clemente en Azalea Park fue borrado en circunstancias confusas.

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Nearly a dozen Central Florida sewer and stormwater systems have been picked for $27 million in loans from a widely used state program, Gov. Rick Scott announced in Orlando on Friday.

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.