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The annual downtown Orlando tree lighting ceremony is tonight to 9 with Mayor Dyer lighting the 72 foot tree, live stage show by Encore Cast Performing…

A number of abandoned and wrecked boats has become a problem in Volusia County.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says 26 boats in the county are considered derelict. While some of them were left in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, others have been there for years.

State law enforcement officers would start earning a higher salary next July under a proposal from Gov. Rick Scott. At a press conference Thursday in Orlando, Scott announced intentions to recommend a 5% raise for agencies such as the Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

In 1962, Peter — an African-American boy exploring his neighborhood after a snowstorm — broke the color barrier in mainstream children's publishing. A new book pays tribute to author Ezra Jack Keats.

Future NASA astronauts or engineers may come from your local library. The space administration is looking to the Orange County Library System for new recruits and the chance to create a more diverse workforce in the fields of science and engineering.

Drama and self-pity! We’re all prone to them to some degree; maybe a little bit more around the holidays and after presidential elections? This weekend’s…

Critic John Powers discusses the Italian documentary, Fire at Sea, and the novel, These Are the Names. The works take very different — but nonetheless poignant — approaches to the refugee situation.

More than 50,000 people have fled eastern Aleppo in the past four days, according to a monitoring group. This battle for the city could mark a turning point in Syria's war, now in its sixth year.

After recent data from the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice revealed Orange County continues to lead the state in juvenile arrests, local law enforcement agencies are planning to replace handcuffs with civil citations for minors with nonviolent offenses.

Jones became an activist after Harvey Milk's assassination, and he lost countless friends to the AIDS epidemic. He says, "There are some days when it is so painful that I really can barely function."