Seminole County News

Robert Zimmerman , father of murder defendant George Zimmerman, is complaining about a state audio expert who reported hearing George Zimmerman make righteous statements during a call to police just before he shot Trayvon Martin .

The plan, as described to city commissioners by Lt. Mike Bryant, aims to link public and private surveillance devices on a high-speed, wireless network that would stream video into a central recorder at the police station.

SANFORD George Zimmerman 's wife, who is facing a perjury charge, has filed a witness list that includes her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, the couple who helped her husband set up a fund-raising website and manage the money that came flooding in.

But, a new law just went into effect that only lets detectives use those hovering cameras if they have a warrant, or if there's a terrorist threat.

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A carjacking between people who knew each other led to a car chase through two counties that ended in Winter Park around 1:20 a.m. today.

Some of the men believed to be involved were detained by police officers, but no one has been charged yet in any of the thefts.

A defense blood pattern expert testified Tuesday that someone else's blood - not the victims' and not the defendant's - were in several rooms at the scene of two bloody knife murders in an Altamonte Springs trailer park.

Seminole County commissioners today agreed to spend $7.4 million to buy almost 100 acres near the Orlando Sanford International Airport to build a sports complex that would draw teams from across the country for tournaments.

Three people were detained for questioning Tuesday morning in Apopka after a pickup truck believed to be involved in three burglaries was found abandoned along a dirt road.

Seminole State College is among nine schools in Florida that offer contracts to its presidents that violate a new state law capping severance pay at 20 weeks for state employees and officers, according to a report released Monday by Florida's Chief Inspector General.

Today, the Bob Cortes for State House District 30 campaign announced the endorsements of Florida House Majority Leader Steve Precourt, Representative Jason Brodeur, Representative David Santiago, Representative John Tobia, and Representative Ritch Workman, who join over a dozen other Central Florida leaders who have already endorsed the campaign.

Deputies say a Sanford man stalked a woman he met at the jail, sent her hundreds of text messages, showed up at her court hearings, and even tried to get the woman's probation officer and court officials to intervene on his behalf.

In a case where DNA helped convict a man of a 2004 double murder, the same technology could free him from Florida's death row.

Orlando's main road-building agency may take over construction of almost all of the $1.66 billion Wekiva Parkway, but not if the agency has to raise tolls to cover the cost.

In a room dubbed Confidence City, a burly Baptist minister-turned-educator calls out writing instructions to a row of special-needs teenagers hunched over their work sheets.

In Maitland , where billboards have been illegal since FDR was president, a city ordinance that would allow a large digital advertising sign is provoking an outcry among residents.

Oct. 18 - the day domestic violence infiltrated a hair salon and ended the lives of three women - had been a blurry confluence of blood, wailing, rage and choked condolences for Gladys Cabrera's husband and four grown children.

A Seminole County high school teacher who was arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student was re-arrested Friday after a second female student told investigators they had a sexual relationship when she was 15.

A second girl has come forward in Seminole County saying a high school math teacher sexually assaulted her.