March for Our Lives: UCF students prepare to rally for gun control
University of Central Florida students are planning to participate in Saturday’s National March for
View ArticleMount Dora boy among first to receive approved gene therapy drug for eye disease
A surgical team sang the Friends’ theme song “I’ll be there for you” to 9-year-old Creed Pettit as he drifted off to sleep on the operating table at University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute...
View ArticleInvestigators say missing Iowa family found dead in vacation condo in Mexico
The bodies of an Iowa couple and their two children were found in a rented condo in Mexico on Friday, though it wasn't immediately clear what caused their deaths, according to investigators. The...
View ArticleIndictment in water park decapitation says slide was a 'deadly weapon' that...
A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world's highest was a "deadly weapon" that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand...
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott signs tax holidays, year-round daylight saving time into law
Gov. Rick Scott signed 74 bills into law on Friday, including a tax-cut package, a measure that declares the Legislature’s intent to observe daylight saving time year-round and a bill that prevents...
View ArticleAttorney says Roy Moore supporters offered him $10,000 to drop client who...
Days after a woman accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety, two Moore supporters approached her attorney with an unusual request. They asked lawyer Eddie Sexton to drop the woman...
View ArticleJudge denies Noor Salman acquittal as defense prepares witnesses for Monday
A federal judge denied a routine motion by Noor Salman's attorneys Friday to dismiss all charges against the widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at the gay nightclub Pulse. Salman, 31, is charged...
View ArticlePresident Trump issues order to ban transgender people from serving in military
President Donald Trump is issuing an order to ban transgender people from serving in the military ex
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott says yes to daylight saving time year-round
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is signing off on a measure that would let Florida stay on daylight saving t
View ArticleLocal cafes grow with new coffee wave
As Lineage Coffee manager Luke Allen offers a small cup of coffee, he suggests smelling and taking in the flavors of the light roast Colombian beans. “You can sense the blueberry,” he said. “You...
View ArticleOrlando Magic, Orlando City find tech help in Central Florida firms
Humberto Farias was having a beer in a German pub two years ago when he got a call he had been waiting for. It was Orlando City Soccer Club Chief Information Officer Renato Reis, who wanted Farias’...
View ArticleWeather forecast: Pleasant conditions to start weekend
Central Florida will see chilly temperatures Saturday morning, but will warm up quite a bit for the
View ArticleFlorida Missing Child Alert issued for 2-month-old out of Hardee County
A Florida Missing Child Alert has been issued for 2-month-old Diana Hernandez-Santellan. FL M
View ArticlePolk deputies investigating suspicious death of 58-year-old woman
The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating a suspicious death in Mulberry. 58-year-old
View ArticleMarion deputies searching for missing brother, sister
The Marion County Sheriff's Office is searching for two missing children who are under the custody o
View ArticleStudents rally at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.
Just before the sun rose over Washington, D.C. on Saturday, about 105 UCF students rolled off of two buses and into the street three blocks north of the White House. They changed out of sweatpants and...
View ArticleOrganizers hope to draw half a million to D.C. gun control rally; hundreds...
Thousands are gathering in Washington Saturday for a protest that organizers claim will be a defining moment in the long-simmering national debate over gun-control legislation. Organizers of the March...
View ArticleMan in bull onesie accused of trying to burn down ex-lover's house with...
A man who tried to burn down his ex-boyfriend’s house with a pot of boiling spaghetti sauce was arrested along with an accomplice in DeLand last week, according to Volusia County Sheriff’s Office....
View ArticleTrump may expel Russian diplomats in response to poisoning in Britain,...
U.S. and European officials said Saturday that President Donald Trump is close to expelling 20 or more Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. The move,...
View ArticleNRA host taunts Parkland teens: 'No one would know your names' if classmates...
As they've stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Fla., teenagers have become Twitter influencers, TV news show mainstays...
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