Orange County, FL

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida woman who was holding her baby was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight as her other young child stood nearby Tuesday, according to deputies. The incident, which was captured on surveillance video, happened shortly after 9:30 a.m. on S Orange Blossom Trail off Holden Avenue, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said in an arrest report.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The family members of Robert Cates, a man accused of killing his friend in Orlando in 1992, came forward to law enforcement to help solve the Orange County cold case, investigators announced during a news conference held Wednesday – exactly 30 years to the date of the crime.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two people died following a Tuesday morning crash in Orange County. It happened around 8 a.m. in the area of University Boulevard and Pelee Street. According to Florida Highway Patrol, a Nissan Versa was traveling east on University Boulevard in the left turning lane. A Ford Mustang was traveling west in the center lane.

Florida law enforcement officials have solved a 30-year-old cold case because the suspect's family decided to come forward and provide investigators with information related to the death of John Stagner, who was 53 when he died in 1992. Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office responded to a home in...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating a deadly shooting in Pine Hills. Deputies arrived at a residence on Baywood Avenue just after 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday to find a man in his 20s had been shot. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County deputies say they’ve solved a 30-year-old murder. They say now 64–year-old Ronald Cates killed a local maintenance worker in August, 1992. According to court documents, Cates was in a hospital in North Carolina when he told staff there he killed his...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Two men have been arrested after robbing a woman holding her infant child at gunpoint in front of a Central Florida business Tuesday morning. Orange County deputies say the woman, who was also standing next to her young child, was approached by Corahn Myrie, 22, and Joshua Davila, 18, at around 9:30 a.m. in front of a business on the 4600 block of S Orange Blossom Trail.

A Florida woman’s attempt to turn in a lost dog resulted in a $500 fine, according to an Orlando news station. The penalty stemmed from misinformation on the lost pup’s intake form, on which the woman lied about the county she found the dog in. The incident brings issues like animal overcrowding and shelter staffing […] The post Florida Woman Hit With $500 Fine After Turning Stray Into Animal Shelter appeared first on DogTime.

ORLANDO, Fla. – U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is retiring at the end of the year from U.S. House District 7. The district used to cover Seminole County and part of Orange County, but the Florida Legislature voted to redraw the district. It now includes Seminole County and part of Volusia County, which gives it more Republican voters.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A trial was scheduled for Thursday morning following the arrest of ex-NFL player Zac Stacy at the Orlando International Airport last year, in which he was accused of attacking the mother of his child in her Central Florida home. Stacy was arrested at the airport...

Orange County deputies said a woman was robbed Tuesday while holding her infant and her young child by her side.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A homicide investigation is underway after a man was shot dead in Orlando, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday responded to the 1800 block of Baywood Avenue in Orlando for reports of a shooting. When deputies arrived, they...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A man has been arrested in connection to a 1992 cold case murder after confessing not once but two times, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. During a news conference Wednesday, Sheriff John Mina and members of the sheriff's office's cold case team announced the charging of 64-year-old Ronald Cates with first-degree murder for his friend's death.

The primary on Aug. 23 is the first major statewide election under the state’s controversial new laws that govern voting. Here is what you need to know to successfully cast a ballot. Q: What are the new rules for drop boxes this year? A: One of the biggest changes is to drop boxes, at which voters can deposit mail-in ballots at elections offices and early voting sites, many of which were ...

By a narrow vote of 4 to 3, the Orange County Commission voted to put a rent stabilization ordinance on the ballot in November. The ordinance limits rent hikes in some apartments by tying them to the consumer price index for a single year. The move is narrowly tailored to skirt Florida's statewide ban on municipal rent control, which led activists to decry just how little the act does.

“One of my favorite Al Pacino lines from ‘Godfather III’ (is), ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!’” Dr. Michael Armbruster wrote last week on his Facebook page. “Kind of felt like that this week, except I walked through the open door willingly.”

The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating a deadly shooting in Pine Hills. Deputies arrived at a residence on Baywood Avenue just after 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday to find a man in his 20s had been shot. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — One man is dead after a shooting that sent two others to the hospital in Orange County. Deputies responded to the shooting on the 7300 block of Holly Creek Road in Mount Dora at about 11 a.m. When they arrived, they found a man in...