Seminole County News

Mario Franceschi, 21, of Longwood, on Monday, November 23, 2009 pleaded no contest in Sanford to shooting from a car as it traveled down Interstate 4 a year ago during a road rage incident that led to a fatal crash.

For nearly a year, Roy Kronk has been heralded as the man who did what others could not: He found missing toddler Caylee Anthony 's remains in woods near her family home.

The man who was accused Monday of kidnapping a friend's child maintains his innocence and says the boy's mother knew he had her son and vehicle.

A popular Seminole County teacher was killed in a car crash Sunday night. 42-year-old Christy Reynolds died in a crash on State Road 46 near Sanford.

Investigators said they recovered dozens of images and videos of children performing sexual acts from the Winter Springs home of an Orlando firefighter.

The shooting spree in a downtown Orlando office tower that killed one person and wounded five raised fresh questions this week about workplace safety and security.

A busy Seminole County road had to be closed for several hours Wednesday night after a fatal crash shut it down.

A man accused of raping a stranded driver on I-4 in Seminole County is out of jail on bond.

The live-in boyfriend of a central Florida assistant public defender has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for fatally shooting the woman.

A Winter Springs man has been sentenced to life in prison for shaking his 2 1/2-month-old daughter to death.

An Altamonte Springs man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for fatally shooting a man he found at the home of his former girlfriend.

Many of his friends saw John Wood as a fun-loving man with an all-American family and they were shattered when Wood killed his wife and two children and then committed suicide inside their Heathrow home in June.

Dorothy "Dotti" Burkett, a champion of the elderly in Seminole County for more than 15 years, was fired last month after an investigation found she accepted more than $38,000 from the heir of a man she helped in her role as an elder-services officer with the Sheriff's Office.

The investigative report on a Heathrow man who killed his wife and children before shooting himself shows a family troubled by debt, gambling and infidelity.

A mother and two children were involved in a serious crash in Seminole County Friday morning.

The Seminole County Natural Lands Program is planning a five acre prescribed burn at the Geneva Wilderness Area from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, for hazard reduction and ecological purposes.

Mothers of newborn babies who feel they aren't ready to be a proper parent can drop off that child at Safe Haven locations throughout Florida with no questions asked.

An Oviedo High School teacher resigned Wednesday after admitting she gave alcohol and her sport-utility vehicle to a student later arrested in a drunken-driving crash, a Seminole County Public Schools spokeswoman said.

Sanford police arrested Devin Simpson and Kellie Chellette, Monday night. Simpson was charged with murder, while Chellette was charged with accessory after the fact.

Seminole County may add a charge of sexual battery on top of a first-degree murder count against 31-year-old William Roger Davis.