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Elgin Police Chief Jeff Swoboda has decided who will replace Cecil Smith as his new No.

In a letter read to the congregation at Discovery Church, Pastor David Loveless admitted adultery, deceit, sinfulness, selfishness, broken trust and a violation of "everything I knew to be true and right." Loveless resigned last month from the Orlando church he founded 29 years ago and, like many fallen preachers before him, now begins a ... (more)

In a moment of high drama, defense attorneys for a death row inmate today confronted on the witness stand the woman who they say is the real killer.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Audio experts gave differing opinions on whether screams for help captured on 911 calls were those of George Zimmerman or the 17-year-old teen he fatally shot last year in Sanford.

Deputies say a Sanford man stalked a woman he met at the jail, sent her hundreds of text messages, showed up at her court hearings, and even tried to get the woman's probation officer and court officials to intervene on his behalf.

The prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder case has asked a judge to prohibit testimony about shooting victim Trayvon Martin's personal life, including whether he had been suspended from school, used marijuana or been in a fight.

In a room dubbed Confidence City, a burly Baptist minister-turned-educator calls out writing instructions to a row of special-needs teenagers hunched over their work sheets.

Two men were arrested Friday after Seminole County deputies said they robbed a bank near Lake Mary and then got into a car crash.

An old post office that Sanford bought years ago for half a million dollars but never used is now presenting the city with another bill: the cost of tearing it down.

Leon County Commissioner Scott Maddox, Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell and State Attorney Willie Meggs are all on the witness list for a defendant in the Allied Veterans gambling case.

The neighborhood watch volunteer charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin wants the jury at his murder trial to be sequestered and for jurors to be able to inspect the crime scene.

A fiery redhead who served as assistant police chief in Eustis and a hospital administrator, Vicki L. Wade Rodgers was always a fighter.

Lots of tails must be wagging this week - the city council's properties subcommittee is recommending a site adjacent to the Sanford Armory on William Oscar Emery Drive for a new dog park.Councilor Alan Walsh, who chairs the committee, told his fellow councilors about the recommendation during their meeting Tuesday evening.

A DeLand police officer this morning ran over and killed a man who was attempting to flee a traffic stop, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

The Daily Caller gave a platform to Robert Zimmerman Jr. to criticize the NAACP for getting involved in the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin -- whom Zimmerman's brother, George, is accused of killing -- despite his sending racially insensitive tweets to the NAACP earlier this year.

In yet another sign that the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial is just weeks ago, today the first trial subpoena was returned to the Seminole County Courthouse.

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In December 2010, a black homeless man named Sherman Ware was assaulted by a well-connected white man named Justin Collison in front of a bar in Sanford, Florida.

Bob Turk, DeLand's economic development manager for the past three years, is leaving for greener pastures closer to home in Sanford.

SANFORD, Fla. -- It was the scandal so big, it forced the Lieutenant Governor to quit her job.