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Elections office may bypass Big Lots site after all
Supervisor of Elections Pam Carpenter has asked for more office space since the mid-2000s, and the Alachua County Commission decided Tuesday that she'll have to wait a while ...
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Dania Beach commission maps out plan for replacing Pat Flury
DANIA BEACH — Longtime Commissioner Pat Flury's abrupt resignation has left the city in search of a qualified resident to fill her seat.Under the charter, commissioners have until Aug. 10 to appoint a ...
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Woman charged with child neglect after going on photo shoot
Gwendolyne Nanette Vazquez might photograph models, but deputies are accusing her of not being a model mom.The 26-year-old substitute teacher and aspiring photographer is charged with leaving her 5-year-old son home alone in ...
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New lawsuit against Archdiocese alleges more abuse at Coral Springs school
Coral Springs K-12 school of looking the other way while a young boy complained he was being molested by a music teacher.Miguel Cala, 40, is already serving a 23-year prison term after pleading no contest to lewd and lascivious molestation charges last year. But the lawsuit filed Monday by Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman outlines new allegations against the convicted pedophile."We are ...
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More AP classes could cost districts millions
TAMPA, Fla. -- County school superintendents told the state Board of Education on Tuesday that a recent legislative bill allowing high school students to take as many advanced placement courses as they can handle will cost districts millions of dollars that their budgets can't support.Pinellas School superintendent Michael Grego said the bill will cost districts between $40 million and $60 ...
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County moves to its third choice Randy Oliver
Charles "Randy" Oliver stands before the Alachua County Commission during his interview process for the job of county manager in the commission room of the County Administration ...
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Brevard schools teachers at impasse over pay raises
TITUSVILLE -- The battle lines over teacher pay raises have been drawn -- in a school district besieged by budget woes. All of this happening as leaders grapple with a $30 million budget shortfall. Concerned teachers gather at Caffe' Chocolat in Titusville a day after pay raise negotiations with the school district came to a stalemate. All are members of the Brevard Federation of ...
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Behind the camera Jurors hesitant to serve on George Zimmerman jury
George Zimmerman arrives in Seminole circuit court on the 7th day of his trial, in Sanford, Fla., Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Zimmerman is accused in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. (PHOTO/Joe Burbank, ...
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Surveillance video Gas fight leads to shooting
A customer at GT Gas and Go in Sanford knocks a bunch of candy tubs off a counter after an argument with the manager over gas. The manager got his gun and followed the customer. Now the manager is charged with aggravated ...
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Power restored after accident in Casselberry
CASSELBERRY -- Power has been restored to about 1,500 residents in the Casselberry area after an incident knocked power lines onto State Road 436. The incident happened at State Road 436 and Kewannee Trail. The road is back open and the power lines have been removed. Duke Energy, which used to be Progress Energy, said power should be back on within the ...
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Clermont moms launch campaign for city pool
CLERMONT -- A grassroots effort by moms to bring a community pool to Clermont is gaining momentum. They say a pair of drownings in South Lake County over the weekend show the campaign is about more than just family fun. Olivia Chapman is the mother of a two-year-old, and has another child on the way. On a hot summer day there's only one place she and her family want to be. "We all ...
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Dash cam captures transgender woman flashing trooper
Dash cam video from a Florida Highway Patrol patrol car shows Corwin Mathis exposing herself in front of the trooper -- Friday, June 14, ...
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Pet food recalled due to potential contamination
Natura Pet Products is voluntarily recalling specific lots of dry pet food and treats. The food could be contaminated ...
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Whats up with I-Drive Live Orlando Eye Ferris wheel
ORLANDO -- Construction of a new entertainment, dining and shopping area called "I-Drive Live" is "well underway" in Orlando, according to developer Chuck Whittall, president of Unicorp National Developments Inc. I chatted with Whittall on Tuesday to see how the project is shaping up along International Drive. He said when the whole thing is done, I-Drive Live will be about ...
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Newberry boy 11 bitten on leg by rattlesnake returns home
An 11-year-old Newberry boy is out of the hospital two weeks after he was bitten on the leg by a 5-foot eastern diamond rattlesnake. ...
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Florida man beaten robbed left naked on first date
BUNNELL -- A north Florida man says he needs surgery on his right eye after he was beaten and robbed during his first date with a woman he met at a convenience store. A Flagler County Sheriff's report says 34-year-old Shaun Williams met the woman he knew as "Tree" two weeks ago. The couple met at the store on Friday and she followed Williams to his nearby home. Williams, a ...
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More guns seized at OIA than any other Florida airport
That kind of apology is routine.Eitel was the 19th person at OIA arrested this year or issued an at-large charging affidavit for "carrying a firearm in a place prohibited by law," records ...
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Boy finds deputys gun in Tampa theater
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a gun found by a 9-year-old boy inside a bathroom stall at a movie theater in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood belonged to a Hillsborough County ...
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Rubio Says People Should Learn English Before Permanent Resident Status
Speaking in Washington, Senator Marco Rubio said: "When you apply for that green card after the tenyear period and more has expired, you're going to have to prove that you're proficient in English because I think assimilation is ...
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Pool of 40 Potential Jurors Reached in Zimmerman Trial
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in ...
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Executive headhunting firm gets easy payday from Tampa Port Authority
TAMPA -- Last year the Tampa Port Authority's governing board voted to hire Boyden Global Executive Search to help it look for a new CEO to lead the port. Boyden helped the board select and hire Paul Anderson, the former CEO of the Port of Jacksonville, to take over the Port of Tampa at the start of the year. Tampa paid Boyden $119,992 to help find Anderson. But the executive headhunter ...
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Fate of Fort Lauderdale millionaire Guma Aguiar still a mystery one year later
Port Everglades inlet a year ago Wednesday - the day he vanished, leaving behind an overwhelming tangle of business and personal lawsuits, a family in turmoil and questions about his survival. Since then, many of his legal troubles have been resolved, but the people closest to Aguiar - who would be 36 if he's still alive - continue to wrangle over his wealth, estimated last year to be ...
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Police search in vain for body of missing Hallandale Beach woman
Investigators and K-9 officers from several law enforcement agencies search 180 acres, including a canal, about a mile west of Sun Life Stadium on Monday, June 20, 2011, for clues in the disappearance of Lynda Robin Meier. Meier, 40, from Hallandale Beach, vanished June 4, ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2103
As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Miami-Dade unions call for health-insurance account audit
The heads of three county labor unions fired up their troops outside County Hall on Tuesday afternoon, castigating Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s administration for carrying a $42 million surplus in the county’s health-insurance account while asking employees to contribute more toward healthcare costs. Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera, Service Employees International Union ...
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Tampa to be linked with rest of state via high-speed rail
Tampa may be connected to Orlando via a high-speed railway by 2015 if the project stays on schedule and if politics do not get in the way. But, the long-term future of the grander project may be in doubt, despite the US losing ground internationally.
High-speed rail is a fairly modern advancement on rail travel that has been widely adopted in the modern world as the best form of overland mass transit. Highly developed countries like Japan, the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain have adopted high-speed rail extensively. Read more
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