Seminole County News

Dorothy "Dotti" Burkett, a champion of the elderly in Seminole County for more than 15 years, was fired last month after an investigation found she accepted more than $38,000 from the heir of a man she helped in her role as an elder-services officer with the Sheriff's Office.

The investigative report on a Heathrow man who killed his wife and children before shooting himself shows a family troubled by debt, gambling and infidelity.

A mother and two children were involved in a serious crash in Seminole County Friday morning.

The Seminole County Natural Lands Program is planning a five acre prescribed burn at the Geneva Wilderness Area from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, for hazard reduction and ecological purposes.

Mothers of newborn babies who feel they aren't ready to be a proper parent can drop off that child at Safe Haven locations throughout Florida with no questions asked.

An Oviedo High School teacher resigned Wednesday after admitting she gave alcohol and her sport-utility vehicle to a student later arrested in a drunken-driving crash, a Seminole County Public Schools spokeswoman said.

Sanford police arrested Devin Simpson and Kellie Chellette, Monday night. Simpson was charged with murder, while Chellette was charged with accessory after the fact.

Seminole County may add a charge of sexual battery on top of a first-degree murder count against 31-year-old William Roger Davis.

The man accused of raping a woman on the side of Interstate 4 in Seminole County will stay behind bars.

Seminole County deputies say a woman was found dead in a car outside of a bar Thursday night.

Police said that a teenager who had been abducted was found dead in a car outside a Seminole County bar Thursday night.

Sanford, FL - Oct. 29, 2009 - Seminole HEART, Seminole County's Long Term Recovery Committee, has been working diligently to repair homes damaged from Tropical Storm Fay.

Early Voting for Longwood voters will take place October 30 from 10-6; Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 from noon-4. The only Early Voting site for the Longwood election is at the Supervisor of Elections Office at 1500 East Airport Blvd., Sanford, FL 32772.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office is investigating the discovery of a body at 2500 S. U.S. Hwy 17-92 in Longwood.

Orlando Jai Alai, the Seminole County parimutuel where gamblers bet on handball-like games, is closing after nearly 48 years in business.

A central Florida mother has been formally charged with strangling her toddler with her hands and a bra.

The body of an elderly woman was found Tuesday evening inside a burned apartment in Casselberry, officials said.

Five students received minor burns in a lab explosion at a central Florida high school which authorities say was alcohol-related. The Seminole County Fire Department said the explosion happened Tuesday morning in a chemistry lab at Paul J. Hagerty High School in Oviedo.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office is investigating a suspicious incident at a school bus stop in Lake Mary.

A motorcyclist who had been an a wreck and was lying in a northbound lane of State Road 415 was killed when another motorist ran over him and kept driving early this morning in Volusia County, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.