Apopka News

Without Walls Central, the opulent Lakeland, Fla., property belonging to Paula White, who also leads Without Walls International Church in Tampa, has been "abandoned" by White and left to decay, a visitor to the property alleges.A Prophetic News radio showA host Susan Puzio, operating on Blog Talk Radio, made these claims in a Jan.

Apopka , Ocoee and Winter Garden are forging a new alliance, hoping to turn their locations along the State Road 429 toll road into a partnership that builds political clout and economic opportunity in west Orange County.

The Orlando City Council this week agreed to chip in $106,000 to help the Florida Department of Transportation pay for a $1.7 million study into the feasibility of a commuter train linking Lake County with Orlando.

"Hi, new principal!" said 7-year-old Conner Adkins when he saw Tina Cappabianca greeting the second-graders streaming into the cafeteria at Lakeville Elementary School in Apopka .

Nine suspected members of a Mexican drug trafficking and money laundering ring have been charged by federal prosecutors with running a marijuana-smuggling operation that brought thousands of pounds of the narcotic to Central Florida.

A Seminole County grand jury has returned a first-degree premeditated murder indictment against David Lee Hedrick, 50, of Apopka, for the 1991 murder of Betty Claire Foster.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Train fever is sweeping Central Florida with the groundbreaking of SunRail.

The job of finding the right executive director to lead the Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency into the future was under way Thursday, when the search committee narrowed its list of 14 candidates to six: four men and two women.

Neo-honky tonker John Anderson was born in Apopka, FL, in 1955 and grew up listening to rock & roll, until he discovered country music at age 15 through Merle Haggard.

"It's like lightning right in the middle of it," said Clay Townsend, one of the organizers of this weekend's Battle of Townsend's Plantation and Civil War Festival in Mount Dora.

One name I heard a bunch as I was digging in to learn about the recruiting class this past week or so was Kimlon "K.J." Dillon, a smooth and severe safety from Apopka, Fla.

KJ Dillon , a 6'2" 180 lb safety from Apopka, Florida, has signed his letter of intent to play for the Mountaineers.

With the most watched televised event in the United States around the corner, there is no doubt that thousands of households will host parties, promising feasting tables to overflow with meaty appetizers and main dishes, while they ask guests to bring something similar.

A tractor-trailer carrying about garbage overturned as it was driving on the Turnpike southbound ramp from Interstate 4, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Chinese businessman Ziqing Yan is proposing a $150 million Asian merchandise mart as part of the 624-acre Kelly Park Crossing development in Apopka, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

KB Homes, which has seen success offering solar as a standard on new homes it builds in several California neighborhoods, is taking the program to sunny Florida.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office on Thursday announced a grand jury homicide indictment in a 2009 shooting that had previously been ruled self-defense. The incident happened in March 2009, in a neighborhood off Clarcona Road near Apopka .

The Disney Princess neighborhood, for example, will feature a castle and "magic mirror" in which children can watch film clips.

Neo-honky tonker John Anderson was born in Apopka, FL, in 1955 and grew up listening to rock & roll, until he discovered country music at age 15 through Merle Haggard.

Orlando's new domestic-partner registry could soon be used by patients and their loved ones in hospital rooms all over Central Florida.