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BankUnited, the largest financial institution based in Florida, has opened a loan office in Orlando and plans to establish new branches across Central Florida, the bank said this week. The Miami Lakes...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission held the meeting Wednesday night to talk about a bear management plan. All sides of the issue spoke up. Some want to hunt the bears while others are...

ORLANDO -- Traffic is moving again on Interstate 4 in downtown Orlando after a semi caught on fire and spilled diesel fuel all over the westbound lanes. It happened just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday n...

Three people were hurt and a car was riddled with bullet holes after a shooting in Eatonville Wednesday night.Deputies said a red Camry pulled up next to a stopped car at Kennedy and All American boul...

A local surfer said a shark charged him, and he has a picture to prove it.University of Central Florida student Kris Kerr was swimming with his camera in the inlet at New Smyrna Beach this past weeken...

The state has forced a prominent Central Florida ophthalmologist to close down his surgical operations because inspectors say he put his patients' health at risk.The Florida Agency for Healthcare Admi...

DAYTONA BEACH -- A 17-year-old football player is hospitalized after he took a bad hit during football practice at Spruce Creek High School. Jordan Peterson was taken to Halifax Medical Center in ...

TALLAHASSEE -- In November, Floridians will be given the chance to vote on a new amendment to overturn the laws currently in place that determine public school class sizes. The current law has been ...

Part of Interstate 4 was closed at Princeton Street after a tractor-trailer crash Wednesday night.Orlando Police Department officials said one of three eastbound lanes and all westbound lanes of I-4 w...

A Gainesville church whose pastor said he will burn the Muslim holy book on Sept. 11 has turned to the Internet to raise money.The Rev. Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center, is selling his c...

An Orange County girl says her prep school won't give her a high school diploma. Her parents owe Central Florida Prep in Gotha, $16,000, and until they pay, her plans are on hold.Krista Garza appears ...

A judge has heard a challenge against the Florida Legislature's proposed state constitutional amendment to loosen class size limits. Chief Circuit Judge Charles Francis said after Wednesday's hearing ...

MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Igor formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands Wednesday morning and has top sustained winds of near 40 mph (65 kph). The center of th...

A couple continues a fight in court to keep their adopted son and help lift Florida's statewide ban on gay adoption.

But Pastor Terry Jones says he will keep plans to burn 200 Muslim holy books

Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida in Orlando, emerged from a 30-minute meeting with the Rev. Terry Jones today hopeful that the pastor would call off plans to burn copies of the Quran, the Islamic holy book, on Saturday.

Two lawyers, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and a tow truck driver rushed to the rescue of a kitten stuck under the hood of a car Wednesday outside Miami's courthouse.

Share LONGWOOD, Fla. -- The Florida High School Athletic Association recommends medically trained personnel at sports practices and games, but it does not require them.Olivier Lewis, a football pla...

WESH 2 News has learned that Dorothy Clay Sims has signed on to the case.Orlando criminal defense attorney Richard Hornsby said Sims is well known for her grasp of issues related to medical expert tes...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A hearing was held in Orlando on Wednesday in the civil suit against Disney related to the death of a monorail pilot.Austin Wuennenberg, 21, was killed in a crash involving two monora...

Share SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. -- Authorities continued their investigation on Wednesday into the deaths of two senior citizens in Volusia County.The bodies of Arthur Sheldon and Goldie Robinson were fo...