Seminole County News

You'd be right. Gov. Rick Scott, in Tuesday's State of the State address, proudly pointed to an unemployment rate that has fallen to 6.3 percent and the addition of more than 460,000 private-sector jobs since 2010.

A grass roots organization in Seminole County spent Saturday trying to talk to voters at the Taste of Oviedo event about a proposed one cent sales tax.

Brevard residents with questions or problems related to community resources and public assistance have a one-stop place to get information today.

It's been said that a rising tide lifts all boats, and that may be the effect being experienced locally in the housing markets in Oviedo and Winter Springs.

Tobacco Free Seminole and Tobacco Free Florida have joined together to warn Floridians about the harmful effects of using smokeless tobacco and how to stop using these products.

Sanford police reported today that officers stopped a Honda and arrested a man and woman after searching their vehicle and finding baggies of cocaine hidden inside a can of Coca-Cola and Faultless spray starch.

Nemours Children's Health System is making moves in Seminole County, and some of those moves are starting right here in Oviedo.

A 21-year-old robber whose accomplice was shot dead by their intended victim was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to second-degree murder in Sanford.

SunRail trains are set to begin shuttling passengers from Volusia County to Seminole County and Orange County in just two months - and now Osceola County is a step closer to the action.

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An off-duty Seminole County deputy was arrested on DUI charged after a night of drinking at a bar on Orange Blossom Trail this weekend, WFTV-Channel 9 reported.

Coors Light's Most Refreshing Happy Hours Come each Thursday for drink specials and a chance to win a ski trip to the Rockies.

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The brother of an Oviedo mother charged with murdering her 17-year-old daughter then shooting herself in the chest told police that his sister has long suffered from mental illness and sometimes talked about suicide.

Seven lives in Seminole County have been lost in blazing residential infernos in the last six months in which nearly all of the cases, there was no working fire alarm in the home.

George Zimmerman Trial Day 24 George Zimmerman leaves the courtroom at the end of the day during his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla.

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Join T.E.A.R.S. for a food-and-wine event this Friday, March 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Lake Mary to benefit the homeless animals from Seminole County Animal Services.

A NEW PUBLIC SERVICE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO WARN OF THE DANGERS OF SYNTHETIC DRUGS.

Channel 9 is looking into newly released details in the case of an Oviedo mother who shot and killed her 17-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself in an attempted suicide.