- Orlando Sentinel

For a year, SeaWorld interim CEO John Reilly led the Orlando-based company as attendance and finances improved. When he got passed over for the permanent job last month, the chairman of the SeaWorld board of directors said Reilly would work with the new chief Gus Antorcha to keep the […]

A 19-year-old man died Tuesday night in a shooting at a Pine Hills home, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies received an aggravated battery call around 7:30 p.m. to a home in the 5000 block of Pine Chase Drive, which is about a mile west of Evans High School. They found the man with... […]

The American Athletic Conference and ESPN have reportedly reached a long-term agreement that is worth $1 billion. The new deal would pay UCF and other AAC schools close to $7 million per year when it goes into effect to start the 2020-21 academic year. ESPN would pay an average of $83.3 million... […]

A dispute over a PayPal transaction led to someone making a "hoax" 911 call to a home in east Orlando and prompted a massive police response, a department spokesman said. Officers responded around 2 p.m. Monday to a home in Oak Crest at Tivoli Woods subdivision, which is off South Econlackhatchee... […]

TALLAHASSEE – After a months-long investigation of misspending at UCF that included depositions, public scoldings of top officials and a scathing report, a Florida House panel approved a bill Tuesday that would allow schools to spend reserve money on construction projects – the very […]

The hilly roads of rural south Lake County have long drawn avid bicyclists from around the country, particularly during the pleasant spring months. But the rolling terrain is also popular with developers. And more homes bring more traffic on the twisty two-lane roads — and more tensions […]

The worker who died last week in an industrial accident at Disney’s Epcot apparently fell off a cherry picker, a report released Tuesday by the Orange County Sheriff's Office. One witness said George Grimes, 58, was in the elevated basket of the cherry picker trying to load it in a pickup […]

Jason Wheat is Florida’s “Firefighter of the Year.” It’s a fact he was surprised to learn Tuesday, as he thought he was surrounded by news cameras for a workout video he planned to record with Orange County Fire Rescue Chief Otto Drozd for nutrition month. The department […]

The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a body was found on the side of the road in Pine Hills. Deputies were called just after 8:30 p.m. Monday to the 800 block of Hastings Street, just north of Colonial Drive after a body was found. Detectives are investigating the incident... […]

When a team of scientists sent a spacecraft hurtling 1.2 billion miles into space on a mission to sample the asteroid Bennu, they went in with some expectations. They had an idea of the shape, which turned out to be right. They had an estimate of the orbit — also right. But as it turns out, […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis should be feeling mighty proud right now, what with his barely dry signature on a bill that upholds the right of medical marijuana patients to smoke their meds. That was the will of the voters, DeSantis and others have correctly said of the medical marijuana constitutional […]

Carrying a bitter personal feud beyond the grave, President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the late Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, declaring he will "never" be a fan of the Vietnam war hero and longtime Republican lawmaker who died last year of brain cancer. "I was never a fan of John […]

TALLAHASSEE – The fight over abortion laws is back in the Legislature, and on Tuesday it prompted the rare removal of two activists from a committee hearing after heated debate on an abortion bill. A House panel approved the measure (HB 1335) that would require underage girls to get their […]

Florida prosecutors have offered a plea deal to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other men charged with paying for illicit sex at a massage parlor. The Palm Beach State Attorney's Office confirmed Tuesday it has offered Kraft and 24 other men charged with soliciting prostitution the... […]

TALLAHASSEE — Felons would have to clear up any financial obligations, including court costs, fees and fines, before having their voting rights restored, under a House proposal castigated by critics Tuesday as a modern take on Jim Crow-era poll taxes designed to keep black voters from […]

A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government's power to detain them after they've committed crimes but finished their sentences. The issue in the case before the justices had to do with the detention of noncitizens who have committed a broad... […]

Seven Central Florida restaurants failed health inspections because of roaches and rodents, including a location for steakhouse chain Outback. Inspectors from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation temporarily closed restaurants Outback Steakhouse in Clermont, Orlando […]

C’mon. We’re not that desperate. Lake County doesn’t need more residents so badly that it should give a thumbs up to tall buildings that look outright silly next to Montverde farm houses with broke-down tractors in the front yard. And Tavares certainly doesn’t need […]

A newly trained police dog made his first catch last week when he sniffed out a driver hiding behind a bulldozer after a car crash, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Monday. The driver of a Nissan lost control on an Interstate 275 ramp in St. Petersburg and crashed into another vehicle... […]

TALLAHASSEE — The tourism-marketing agency Visit Florida would only be funded for three months and Enterprise Florida wouldn’t get any state money at all as part of a House budget proposal released Tuesday. The public-private agency Space Florida, meanwhile, would get $12.5 million as […]

Two college football players from Texas who were visiting Miami for spring break were shot and robbed over the weekend, police said. The incident took place about 5:26 a.m. Saturday and the victims are from Texas A&M University-Commerce, according to Miami police spokeswoman Kiara Delva. The […]

He appeared as if a hologram at first — then solid — suddenly there and clear as you or I, at the edge of the forest behind Trish Bishop’s home in Kissimmee. It was a Thursday in March 2013, the glow of the afternoon tucking in for the day behind the trees. He stood tall, at least […]

Kenneth To, a swimmer who won a silver medal for Australia at the 2013 world championships, has died after becoming ill while training in Florida. He was 26. To won six medals for Australia at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, including gold in the 400-meter medley. At the 2013 worlds in […]

A woman who came from China to Winter Park to look at houses was raped by her real estate agent, who told her not to report the crime to law enforcement because police would believe an American citizen over an immigrant, according to a warrant affidavit. Wentworth Huang Wang, 38, faces three […]

St. Cloud police on Monday released additional details and 911 calls from a domestic violence incident that led to a crash that killed an innocent bystander. It started Friday night when the victim’s ex-boyfriend, 34-year-old Andric Barksdale, showed up at her job in Orange County and started […]