Seminole County

A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal probe into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes. Joel Greenberg of Seminole County had pleaded guilty to six federal crimes, also including stalking, wire fraud and bribery conspiracy. Greenberg’s attorney had asked for leniency...

Two political operatives and an independent candidate who opponents say hardly campaigned and only entered a state Senate race in central Florida in 2020 to siphon votes from a Democrat have been criminally charged. Prosecutors on Tuesday filed election finance charges against the candidate, Jestine Iannotti, as well as Seminole County GOP chairman Ben Paris and political consultant James “Eric”...

Students at a central Florida high school are declaring victory after taking their protest to their school board over plans to censor a yearbook page showing a student walkout against the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Hundreds of students at a central Florida high school were told they won’t get their yearbooks until they’re censored to cover up images of students holding rainbow flags and a “love is love” sign during a protest of the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law. Lyman High School Principal Michael Hunter said in a statement on Monday that “pictures...

Two central Florida women found themselves behind bars after sheriff’s deputies said they were involved with lacing food with marijuana at a February wedding.

Two central Florida women found themselves behind bars after sheriff’s deputies said they were involved with lacing food with marijuana at a February wedding. NBC affiliate WESH-TV reports Seminole County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at the Feb. 19 wedding of 42-year-old Danya Glenny at a Longwood venue after receiving 911 calls. “I thought I was having a heart attack. My…

The standoff took place at a local pizza shop late Monday night.

Police say a 49-year-old man has been arrested after robbing a central Florida Hungry Howies pizza shop and holding an employee hostage for more than seven hours

A man who beat a maintenance worker to death with a shovel Thursday morning at a mosque in central Florida was later shot and wounded by deputies in a different county, officials said. Seminole County deputies responded to the Husseini Islamic Center in unincorporated Sanford, Florida, where they found a 59-year-old man dead, according to a sheriff’s office news...

A central Florida police chief has resigned, a week after being arrested on a domestic voiolence charge

Authorities say a 16-year student shot another student three times at a central Florida high school, sending the campus into lockdown

A Florida missing child alert has been issued for two kids in Heathrow, Florida. Police are searching for 10-year-old Natasha Hurtado and 13-year old Liliana Hurtado. The children were last seen in the 1140 block of Greenstone Boulevard in Heathrow. Both girls have brown hair and brown eyes. Natasha is 4’3″ and weighs 80 pounds and Liliana is 5’2″ and…

At least six people are in the hospital in Central Florida after a car crash involving 15 vehicles Saturday.

A central figure in the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz will be sentenced in August after a judge accepted a plea deal requiring him to cooperate with prosecutors.

The Justice Department announced in March that it was opening an investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., over sex trafficking allegations. Here’s what you need to know.

A former Florida tax collector already facing charges of stalking a political opponent and sex trafficking of a minor has been ordered to remain in jail after his latest arrest for a bond violation. U.S. Magistrate Embry Kidd ruled Wednesday that former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg violated his nightly curfew on Sunday when he left central Florida...

Sheriff’s deputies say two toddlers have died after being pulled from a pond near their home in central Florida

Officials in central Florida are asking for the public’s help in finding a 35-year-old woman and her 26-year-old boyfriend who went missing under “suspicious circumstances.”

Officials say public high school students in one Florida county received more than eight million racist emails with “disgusting” messages

The lawyer for the family of a 16-year-old boy who was arrested after refusing to wear a mask at a central Florida high school called the incident “government abuse” of a teen suffering from panic attacks