Eatonville News Archives

Orange County 's School Board is pushing ahead with a plan to turn over a historic African-American school to Eatonville officials, but a trust that controls land where the school sits could halt the plan in its tracks.

A man accused of killing a known prostitute in his home had his fifth-grade son help him dispose of the woman's body in an Eatonville field, according to sheriff's deputies.

The man accused of murdering a prostitute last month and then dumping her body near Eatonville asked his fifth-grade son to help him get rid of the body, according to an arrest affidavit.

Winter Park Health Foundation distributed $153,107 to establish eight new community garden projects in Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park.

Tattoos and a tip lead Orange County deputies to a murder suspect. Late Wednesday night, Orange County detectives booked Alan Jett into the Orange County Jail for allegedly murdering Lashanda Brand.

Orange County deputy sheriffs did not say how or if they knew each other. Sentinel reporter Susan Jacobson has more .