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DELAND, Fla. -- One person has died and another is in a hospital following a plane crash near DeLand.

APOPKA, Fla. -- Firefighters are at the scene of a house fire in near Apopka.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County Beach Patrol officials say they've made several rip current rescues already on Saturday.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Twenty tailgaters are arrested before Saturday's UCF football game.

Debra Thomas knows what its like to do without the simplest of household items. She herself was once homeless.

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS -- Debra Thomas knows what its like to do without the simplest of household items. She herself was once homeless. "I made a promise to myself if. I was able to get back on my feet ...

Fans of flying now have a new app to feed their passion. No, it's not from an airline--it's from local tourist attraction, the Fantasy of Flight. The owner of the Polk County flight museum created...

Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is aboard a ship. The AP's John Mone reports on the effort to raise the equipment to the surface. (Sept. 5)

Deputies in Osceola County are asking for help as they try to find a car that may have been involved in a deadly shooting.

Central Florida authorities said they're looking for the person suspected in a road rage shooting that left one person dead.Detectives said they're looking for the driver of a black Nissan sport utili...

The father of U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio has died.Mario Rubio, 83, passed away Saturday night at a hospital in Miami after a long battle with emphysema and lung cancer."I was blessed to be rais...

Police investigated a shooting at a hotel on International Drive early Sunday.The shooting happened at the Super8 Hotel near the intersection of International Drive and American Way at about 7:30 a.m....

Sixty-nine Mexican cowboys set the new Guinness World record for the greatest number of people simultaneously lassoing on Sunday. The group twirled their ropes for nearly three minutes.

The MEAC/SWAC challenge between the Delaware State Hornets and the Southern University Jaguars kicked off at noon Sunday. The game is the first game to be played on the new artificial turf at the Citr...

Police in Altamonte Springs were called to the Country Creek subdivision Sunday morning after getting a report of a bear trapping a person in their car.

HUNTSVILLE, Ark. -- Sprinklers turn on during a high school football game in Huntsville, Ark.

The Daytona Beach Police department conducted a prostitution sting Saturday evening in response to complaints from business owners and residents.According to police, among those arrested on charges of...

PALM COAST -- A newly released survey is shedding some light on what people living in Palm Coast think about their city.      The research was done by the National Citizen Survey. Seventy-five...