Seminole County News

The White family has lived on Temple Avenue in Fern Park for 53 years, and they had never seen a bear until Sunday morning.

It wasn't a lack of patriotism or fortitude that brought Sanford's Memorial Day ceremony to an early halt Monday morning.

Yachua Castro-Maysonet, 23, was arrested in Longwood, Florida on a charge of attempted second-degree murder.

Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Steve Gaskins patrols Interstate 75 on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, north of Wildwood.

The discrimination complaint filed by a prospective kindergarten student's mother charges that the Choices in Learning Charter School in Winter Springs would not accept the girl because she is autistic .

No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. A man who tried to warn others of a speed trap by flashing his vehicle's headlights at motorists was ticketed by police.

Casselberry commissioners Anthony Aramendia and Colleen Hufford were elected without opposition to new terms today after the city's qualifying period for candidates ended at noon.

A child was bitten by a rattlesnake on Friday while playing behind a Seminole County church, where his brother attends school, according to officials.

Newly released court documents in the second-degree-murder case against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman reveal that, in the month following his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb.

A US judge in Florida has ruled being cited for flashing headlights to warn other drivers of police presence is a violation of the First Amendment.

A Seminole County manA is undertaking a marathon 110 mile run Friday and Saturday to draw attention to under funding of public schools and colleges in Florida.

George Zimmerman attends his first court appearance on April 12, 2012 in Seminole County court for the second degree murder of Travyon Martin.

Seminole County will be laughing till the cows come home at the Seminole County Historical Society's Roast for Cecil Tucker II.

A sea plane has crashed into Lake Jesup in central Florida. The Seminole County Sheriff's office says there were no serious injuries from the crash, which happened Thursday morning.

Small businesses across the nation have been celebrating Small Business Week, and May 24 Seminole County will be doing the same.

In Seminole County, crews found flames shooting from a townhouse at the Altamonte Villa Apartments on Orienta Avenue in Altamonte Springs.

Writing scores for the 2012 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test for individuals school districts were released Friday, and Osceola County School District fourth-, eighth- and 10th-graders scored better or equal to the state average and, in many cases, higher than their peers in all other Central Florida school districts.

In a sign of growing discord among Seminole County Republicans , GOP challengers have filed to run against two of the county's most powerful legislators: Reps.

A judge's ruling has closed a loophole in the law regarding flashing your car's headlights to warn other drivers about speed traps.

On Monday, firefighters found Thomas Chorak, 62, dead in the house on Weathered Wood Circle located in the Wedgewood Gulf Villas.