Apopka News

A 67-year-old Zellwood man was killed Thursday night while trying to cross Orange Blossom Trail , the Florida Highway Patrol said.

For the third time in two weeks, a passenger carrying a loaded handgun has been arrested while trying to board a flight at Orlando International Airport.

An Apopka day-care worker was arrested Thursday after investigators said she slapped a 2-year-old hard enough to leave finger marks and the beginnings of a black eye.

In Apopka , police have closed West Ponkan Road at Pittman Road after a crash involving one vehicle hitting a powerline.

Apopka police and State Attorney Jeff Ashton announced Wednesday that a grand jury has indicted a man in connection with a 2002 murder.

Elmer Leon Carroll is scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 29. He was convicted of raping and suffocating a girl after breaking into her Orange County home almost 23 years ago.

Three of four thieves were arrested after they broke into stores at an Apopka strip mall Tuesday, according to authorities.

On Sunday we graded Central Florida's state senators on their performance during this year's session of the Florida Legislature.

Orlando's main road-building agency may take over construction of almost all of the $1.66 billion Wekiva Parkway, but not if the agency has to raise tolls to cover the cost.

A man, whose name and age has not been released, shot himself in the head at about 6:30 p.m. after parking a silver vehicle behind the small town's joint police and Fire Rescue complex on Oakland Avenue.

Martez Ivey is entering his sophomore spring and he's already got several of the nation's top programs after his skills.

Crime tape, bullet holes and flames marked an end to a violent night in south Apopka that put innocent people in harm's way, including a man who was shot in the buttocks while taking out his trash.

The father of a slain witness expressed anger and disappointment on Monday morning at the news that Orange County will resume pre-trial monitoring of defendants with electronic ankle monitors.

With Orange County's embattled GPS-monitoring and home-confinement programs suspended, judges now have a temporary option for criminal suspects who qualify for release before trial but still need supervision.

DEATH, THE CHEMICALS DID NOT CAUSE HIS DEATH. IN JUST A FEW HOURS, STUDENTS AT 11 ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS WILL BE ABLE TO PICK UP ATHEIST MATERIALS AT SCHOOL.

Don't wait to enter Florida RealtorsA annual Environmental Award program, or you may be green with ENVY when the winner is chosen.

Florida parents could soon have the power to turn a failing public school into a charter school.

Gendreau kicked for Middle Tennessee State from 2008-2011, and he did so exceptionally well.

There was a time in Winter Garden when citrus was king, neighbors didn't need phones, long summer nights were perfect for a fish fry and your enemies were always invited.