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Once again, a summer wave of COVID-19 is spiking across the country and in Florida. According to the Department of Health, Orange County reported the third-highest case totals in the state at the end of July, just before kids returned to the classroom. “We've seen generally two COVID bumps during...

Miguel Aguasvivas was sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to money laundering tied to an alleged Colombian cartel. His wife, Katherine, was kidnapped and murdered by alleged cartel members in 2024 over drug money disputes, authorities say. Miguel’s attorneys plan to appeal the sentence while his children...

Advocates with Youth Action Fund and the Eskamani-linked People Power for Florida hold a canvass and phone bank Wednesday evening to help get Medicaid expansion on the 2026 ballot.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Orlando Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a 2023 homicide at the Metro Place Apartments. Police said that on July 10, 2023, around 12:30 a.m., officers responded to multiple 911 calls reporting gunfire at the complex, located at 1049 S. Kirkman Road.

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida’s eviction rates are climbing — and the effects are reaching far beyond housing. Educators and researchers warn that the state’s growing eviction crisis is disrupting students’ education, forcing them to change schools, miss days in class, and fall behind academically. In...

Saying the case seemed to be treated “as if it was a simple grand-theft auto,” attorneys for Death Row inmate Curtis Windom argued Monday that he should not be executed Aug. 28 because of incompetent legal representation during his 1992 trial for murdering three people in Orange County.

“He asked the wife to do it. She went ahead. He would’ve been the one killed if he would’ve gone.” The post 'That day he couldn't do it': Florida man sent wife on drug-money run that resulted in her carjacking and fiery death first appeared on Law & Crime .

ORLANDO, Fla. – A Colombian “drug lord” was taken into custody this month over his alleged connection to 29 murders and other related crimes, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a release, ICE officials described the drug lord — Guillermo Perez Alzate — as a “confessed...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County deputies are searching for a missing 60-year-old man who is considered endangered. The sheriff’s office said Michael Barnes was last seen Friday near his home on Siplin Road in Winter Garden. There is concern for his safety due to his medical conditions,...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Norelyz Maldonado-Lutz only wanted to sell a few items on Poshmark, an online marketplace where consumers can buy and sell goods. “So I uploaded the app,” she said. “I went ahead and I started adding all the pictures of my items and doing my profile.”