Seminole County News

Channel 9 Eyewitness News has uncovered a major problem with a road project in Seminole County.

With the school year coming to a close, busy parents will soon be faced with one of life's more important questions: How do they entertain children and keep them out of trouble now that school's out? Fortunately for those same parents, Oviedo, Winter Springs and surrounding areas in eastern Seminole County are not lacking in the options for summer ... (more)

Longwood police pulled a school bus en route to Winter Springs High school over and removed a student after receiving a report of a possible online threat against a schoolmate, officials said.

In the future, the child next door could be the professional who purifies your drinking water, revives an algae-laden lake or stops an invasive plant species from overrunning our natural habitat.

On May 15, the Seminole County Public School Board unanimously voted to accept its own proposal regarding a new pay scale for teachers.

Seminole County deputies took down two suspects accused of a crime spree Wednesday.

With the sights and sounds of construction now apparent, the Oviedo on the Park development project is quickly starting to take root as a reality in the making for the community just two months after breaking ground.

Defense attorneys have just released scores of new photos as they prepare for the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial, set to begin in Sanford in three weeks.

Some trustees have spoken out against raising tuition, as students continue to struggle with the increasing costs of higher education.

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.

TALK MORE ABOUT RAIN CHANCES FOR THE WEEKEND IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES. ALL RIGHT, TROY, THANK YOU, SIR.

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.