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The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that multiple preventable errors before and during a 2024 holiday drone show over Lake Eola led to a drone crashing into a 7-year-old boy, causing severe injuries that required open-heart surgery.

Orange County has begun work on its first Urban Forest Master Plan, a long-term roadmap for protecting, managing and growing the county’s tree canopy.

After some morning showers, it'll feel like a touch of fall is in the air, for the first time this season.

A Florida man was arrested after Charlotte County detectives say a video showed him repeatedly abusing a 6-week-old puppy until the animal died.

Deputies arrested a Lehigh Acres man early Tuesday morning after he allegedly pointed a gun at a repossession driver, threatened to kill him and fired a shot.

Three years after Seminole County firefighters helped save the life of a 3-year-old girl who was accidentally run over by a truck, the crew has become much more than a group of first responders to her family.

Rolling Loud, the large hip-hop festival, will return to Orlando in 2027 after debuting in the City Beautiful earlier this year.

A woman was arrested after allegedly meeting a man at a club in South Florida, going home with him and drugging him before stealing his nearly $100,000 Rolex watch, according to court records.

Florida officials are considering whether to block undocumented students from enrolling in career and technical education programs.

A precautionary boil water advisory has been issued for some residents in Groveland after a pump failure at the Sunshine Water Plant.

A 58-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for a 1992 kidnapping and sexual assault in Boynton Beach after spending more than three decades on the run, authorities said.

A multi-agency search is underway off Jupiter Beach after a 48-year-old paddleboarder vanished roughly four miles out at sea, officials said. 

The city of Winter Park is shelving plans for paid parking at one of its popular parks.

A fourth person in Florida has died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to consuming raw or undercooked oysters, health officials said.

Cape Canaveral city leaders are weighing a property tax increase and other options to close a budget shortfall, as residents voiced differing opinions over whether to raise taxes or reduce city spending.

Amid growing concerns about AI data centers, Orange County commissioners are set to discuss the topic at a meeting Tuesday.

Jurors on Tuesday watched a two-hour police interrogation of the woman accused of fatally stabbing an elderly Lake County couple, as prosecutors continued presenting evidence in the second day of her murder trial.