Orlando FL

Ah yes… another beautiful day in the Sunshine State, where even stealing your own car somehow becomes a full-contact sport. This week’s episode of “Florida: Because Of Course” takes us to Orlando, where a 29-year-old woman from St. Petersburg allegedly decided that towing companies are less of a business and more of...

A winter storm of a magnitude unlike we traditionally see in the month of January is happening right now. Blankets of snow, swaths of freezing rain and ice, as well as a field of rainfall are impacting millions of us through the lower forty-eight. While we may have dodged the...

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma endorsed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds for Florida governor, citing the congressman’s commitment to public safety and law enforcement in a statement released by Donalds’ campaign. Donalds own youthful indiscretions, which include an arrest at 18 for marijuana distribution and a felony...

A winning Florida Lottery ticket worth more than $13,000 that was sold at a gas station in Lake County has gone unclaimed for multiple weeks. According to Florida Lottery records, one of four winning Fantasy 5 tickets for the midday drawing on Tuesday, Jan. 6, was purchased at the Mobil Mart located at 4601 County...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — Twenty years ago, on Jan. 24, 2006, Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her home in Orlando, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. Kesse, who grew up in Tampa Bay, was living in an apartment complex in Orlando and working in finance when she was reported missing. She was 24 at the time. A...

Across the state, school districts are weighing the option of shutting down some public schools, largely due to low enrollment. In Orange County, seven schools could be shut down next school year. Orange County Public School employees have been holding community meetings concerning each possible closing since Jan....

ORLANDO, Fla. – Loved ones gathered for a candlelight vigil in Parramore on Saturday as the family of 62‑year‑old B.J. Jackson called for justice in his fatal beating, which left him clinging to life for nearly a month. Kayla Boyd, Jackson’s niece, says the family is heartbroken...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The annual Point-in-Time (PIT) count of the homeless population is set to begin on Monday in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. The survey’s goal is to count the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in communities nationwide. It helps to develop programs and services for...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Winter Garden man found out the hard way that Interstate 4 is not a racetrack early Saturday morning. Just after midnight on January 24, 2026, deputies put a stop to a dangerous high-speed contest near Lake Alfred. It happened around 12:47 a.m. A deputy...

An Amazon driver was forced to intervene during a couple’s altercation over infidelity in Clermont. An officer responded to Broadstone Overlands in Clermont, regarding a battery in progress around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Clermont Police Department. He found 27-year-old Alexander...