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Brevard schools teachers at impasse over pay raises
TITUSVILLE -- The battle lines over teacher pay raises have been drawn -- in a school district besieged by budget woes. All of this happening as leaders grapple with a $30 million budget shortfall. Concerned teachers gather at Caffe' Chocolat in Titusville a day after pay raise negotiations with the school district came to a stalemate. All are members of the Brevard Federation of ...
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Behind the camera Jurors hesitant to serve on George Zimmerman jury
George Zimmerman arrives in Seminole circuit court on the 7th day of his trial, in Sanford, Fla., Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Zimmerman is accused in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. (PHOTO/Joe Burbank, ...
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Surveillance video Gas fight leads to shooting
A customer at GT Gas and Go in Sanford knocks a bunch of candy tubs off a counter after an argument with the manager over gas. The manager got his gun and followed the customer. Now the manager is charged with aggravated ...
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Power restored after accident in Casselberry
CASSELBERRY -- Power has been restored to about 1,500 residents in the Casselberry area after an incident knocked power lines onto State Road 436. The incident happened at State Road 436 and Kewannee Trail. The road is back open and the power lines have been removed. Duke Energy, which used to be Progress Energy, said power should be back on within the ...
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Clermont moms launch campaign for city pool
CLERMONT -- A grassroots effort by moms to bring a community pool to Clermont is gaining momentum. They say a pair of drownings in South Lake County over the weekend show the campaign is about more than just family fun. Olivia Chapman is the mother of a two-year-old, and has another child on the way. On a hot summer day there's only one place she and her family want to be. "We all ...
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Dash cam captures transgender woman flashing trooper
Dash cam video from a Florida Highway Patrol patrol car shows Corwin Mathis exposing herself in front of the trooper -- Friday, June 14, ...
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Pet food recalled due to potential contamination
Natura Pet Products is voluntarily recalling specific lots of dry pet food and treats. The food could be contaminated ...
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Whats up with I-Drive Live Orlando Eye Ferris wheel
ORLANDO -- Construction of a new entertainment, dining and shopping area called "I-Drive Live" is "well underway" in Orlando, according to developer Chuck Whittall, president of Unicorp National Developments Inc. I chatted with Whittall on Tuesday to see how the project is shaping up along International Drive. He said when the whole thing is done, I-Drive Live will be about ...
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Newberry boy 11 bitten on leg by rattlesnake returns home
An 11-year-old Newberry boy is out of the hospital two weeks after he was bitten on the leg by a 5-foot eastern diamond rattlesnake. ...
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Florida man beaten robbed left naked on first date
BUNNELL -- A north Florida man says he needs surgery on his right eye after he was beaten and robbed during his first date with a woman he met at a convenience store. A Flagler County Sheriff's report says 34-year-old Shaun Williams met the woman he knew as "Tree" two weeks ago. The couple met at the store on Friday and she followed Williams to his nearby home. Williams, a ...
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More guns seized at OIA than any other Florida airport
That kind of apology is routine.Eitel was the 19th person at OIA arrested this year or issued an at-large charging affidavit for "carrying a firearm in a place prohibited by law," records ...
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Boy finds deputys gun in Tampa theater
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a gun found by a 9-year-old boy inside a bathroom stall at a movie theater in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood belonged to a Hillsborough County ...
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Rubio Says People Should Learn English Before Permanent Resident Status
Speaking in Washington, Senator Marco Rubio said: "When you apply for that green card after the tenyear period and more has expired, you're going to have to prove that you're proficient in English because I think assimilation is ...
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Pool of 40 Potential Jurors Reached in Zimmerman Trial
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in ...
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Executive headhunting firm gets easy payday from Tampa Port Authority
TAMPA -- Last year the Tampa Port Authority's governing board voted to hire Boyden Global Executive Search to help it look for a new CEO to lead the port. Boyden helped the board select and hire Paul Anderson, the former CEO of the Port of Jacksonville, to take over the Port of Tampa at the start of the year. Tampa paid Boyden $119,992 to help find Anderson. But the executive headhunter ...
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Fate of Fort Lauderdale millionaire Guma Aguiar still a mystery one year later
Port Everglades inlet a year ago Wednesday - the day he vanished, leaving behind an overwhelming tangle of business and personal lawsuits, a family in turmoil and questions about his survival. Since then, many of his legal troubles have been resolved, but the people closest to Aguiar - who would be 36 if he's still alive - continue to wrangle over his wealth, estimated last year to be ...
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Police search in vain for body of missing Hallandale Beach woman
Investigators and K-9 officers from several law enforcement agencies search 180 acres, including a canal, about a mile west of Sun Life Stadium on Monday, June 20, 2011, for clues in the disappearance of Lynda Robin Meier. Meier, 40, from Hallandale Beach, vanished June 4, ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2103
As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Miami-Dade unions call for health-insurance account audit
The heads of three county labor unions fired up their troops outside County Hall on Tuesday afternoon, castigating Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s administration for carrying a $42 million surplus in the county’s health-insurance account while asking employees to contribute more toward healthcare costs. Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera, Service Employees International Union ...
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French company coming to Florida
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A French company is expanding its operations in Florida.Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who is on a week-long trade mission in Paris, announced on Tuesday that Vision Systems would create its first U.S. subsidiary in Melbourne.Scott said that the company will eventually hire 40 people over the next three years. The company based in Lyon, France, is a supplier for the aeronautics, ...
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Florida attorney general sues Nationwide Pools
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against Nationwide Pools and Keith Stuart, who owns the pool-construction company accused of ripping off its customers and leaving their pools ...
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Gainesville City Commission to consider reworked University Corners plan
Vacant property at the intersection of West University Avenue and 13th Street, the proposed site of University Corners, is shown in this April 30, 2013 file ...
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Noted funeral director Thomas blended grief work whimsy
He could also be silly as MT Noggin the clown, entertaining at children’s birthday parties and nursing homes.In a life spanning 74 years, he also served as a state legislator, consulted funeral businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada and helped community organizations wherever he lived.Thomas died June 12 after being diagnosed in January with acute myeloid leukemia, said his wife, ...
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Mi Boudoir celebrates First Annual 2013 Miami Style Fusion Charity Event
'First Annual 2013 Miami Style Fusion Charity Event' on June 22, 2013. The event that will be hosted by Mi Boudoir will take place at Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery located at 1800 N Bayshore Drive Suite CP1 in Miami; from 7:00 PM to 3:00 ...
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Miami to have its own Little Santo Domingo” before year end EFE
MIAMI. - Adding to Miami neighborhoods such as "Little Havana" or "Little Haiti" that already draw tourists to southern Florida's multicultural city, will be its own "Little Santo Domingo" before year end," EFE reports. "Right now I'm working on a concept to create a "Little Santo Domingo" in District 1 of Miami," the commissioner ...
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Florida's Exploration Park keeps state ahead
NASA’s new Space Life Sciences Lab and the adjacent Exploration Park, which is still under development, are testaments to Florida’s ongoing leadership in the exploration and understanding of space travel and the world beyond Earth’s stratosphere.
Florida has long been at the forefront of space travel internationally, it is here, at Cape Canaveral, that NASA’s shuttles take to the skies headed for the moon, or, more commonly, the International Space Station. Read more
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