Share DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A star-studded lineup of musical artists hit Daytona Beach for the American Music Festival this weekend.It's the biggest show that Volusia County has seen in decades.The...

In the end, Hurricane Earl wasn't even as bad as some of the no-name nor'easters that pound New England from time to time. The storm, far less intense than feared, brushed past the Northeast and...

In his weekly radio and Internet address, president Barack Obama on Saturday outlined what he's done to help the middle class, a group he says has been squeezed the most during the...

Kara DioGuardi is following Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell out the door at 'American Idol.' Her departure leaves Randy Jackson the last judge standing, for now. Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez are...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Two surfers are recovering from a shark bite while swimming along the Volusia County coastline.Jason Coffman was bitten in the hand while surfing Friday at the jetty at Ponce...

Firefighters were at the scene of a house fire in near Apopka early Saturday.Orange County Fire Department officials said that when they arrived, the vacant home on New Hampshire Avenue was engulfed...

After making its way up the East Coast, Hurricane Earl lost steam and was downgraded to a tropical storm late Friday night. But residents and tourists throughout New England are still preparing for a...

Rock The Universe " Christian music festival returns September 10 and 11 with one of the most exciting celebrations of Christian music in the nation. Fourteen soul-stirring rock acts will take the...

PALM BAY -- A Brevard County teacher was arrested and accused of stealing prescription drugs from his co-workers. Palm Bay police took Discovery Elementary School teacher Michael Davis into custody...

OCALA -- An Ocala man is in jail, accused of trying to have sex with a child. Marion County investigators say Scott Howe, 40, thought he was e-mailing a father with an 8-year-old child when he was...

ORLANDO -- School leaders in Orange County say hundreds of students have asked to leave Evans and Oak Ridge high schools. We're still months away from learning if the schools will get failing...

ORLANDO -- Two people were stabbed in the middle of a downtown Orlando nightclub Friday night. Police say two people walking to Makos on Church Street cut off a transient riding his bicycle. ...

The storm was gone late Friday, as it barreled toward the Canadian Maritimes. But here, it's what lurks unseen beneath the Atlantic Ocean that experts think will torment swimmers this...

Police said two people were stabbed with a box cutter inside Mako's Bar in Downtown Orlando Friday night.The stabbing was reported at the bar on West Church Street at about 9:15 p.m.Orlando Police...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The number of shark bites this year in Volusia County doubled on Friday.Two surfers were bitten off the coast, bringing the total number of bites this year to four.A...

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson compared supporters of conservative TV/radio host Glenn Beck to "people who were wearing sheets over their heads 25 years ago."Grayson made the comment Thursday on the...

The nearly 10-foot python found on a porch in Farmington, Ark., was on its way back to its owner on Wednesday, after being on the loose for nearly a...

A busy section of Downtown Orlando turned into a crime scene Friday night when two people were stabbed on West Church Street near Orange Avenue.Detectives say the two were injured during some kind of...

The Seminole County sheriff's office says someone put a camera in the bathroom of a Winter Springs restaurant.The cell phone camera was discovered in the women's bathroom at a Chipotle restaurant on...

Orlando police said two men are in serious condition after they were stabbed by a transient downtown Friday night.Police said Leon Johnson was riding his bike on the sidewalk at Church Street near...

(1) Manatee vs. Woodland Hills (PA), Sat. (20) Newsome vs. (2) Armwood Venice vs. (3) Lakeland (4) Plant vs. (14) Tampa Bay Tech Hillsborough vs. (5) Jefferson (6) St. Petersburg vs. East Lake (7)...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona Beach firefighters rescued three people trapped inside a car after a crash Friday afternoon.The crash happened at the intersection of North Martin Luther King Boulevard...

Eustis police say a man called 911 last month saying that he had killed his wife and that he was going to kill his baby.Police took the call seriously and sent 35 officers, a helicopter, and SWAT...

Deputies say someone was shining a laser that could have blinded the pilot of the Osceola County Sheriff's Office helicopter. The pilot was OK, but now deputies are hunting for the person who flashed...

Some visitors who had to cancel reservations at an International Drive hotel expected a full refund, but instead, detectives say, Timothy Stewart kept their cash. He worked inside the Wyndham Orlando...

A woman in the Orange County jail may not belong there. In December 2007, a home was damaged by a subcontractor who was angry because she hadn't been paid. Friday, Malene Joseph told WFTV she was...

There's a constitutional separation of church and state, but some people think part of the economic stimulus package is blurring that line.WFTV found out the Catholic Diocese of Orlando received...

Even an Orange County judge cried as he sentenced a man Friday to eight years in prison for causing a crash that killed a young mother and her baby just before Christmas in 2008.The victim's family,...

A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Earl steamed toward the gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages of Cape Cod on Friday, disrupting people's vacations on the unofficial final weekend of...

PROVO — BYU and Central Florida announced today the two schools will play a home-and-home series in 2011 and 2014. The series begins with a game in Provo on Sept. 23, 2011 — the first...

An elementary school teacher has been arrested and charged with stealing money and prescription pills from his co-worker's purses, police said.Palm Bay police said Michael Davis, a fifth-grade...

Two Brevard County adults were arrested after a teen almost died from a drug overdose last weekend.Titusville police said 25-year-old Emily Childs and 33-year-old Christopher Powers gave prescription...

The suspicions airport security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the man who brought it in from the Middle East: a scientist who sparked a bioterrorism...

SANFORD -- A group of 26 states, including Florida, will use $170 million in federal money to find innovative ways to test students. Much of funding for Florida schools comes from federal stimulus...

COCOA BEACH -- Strong rip currents are threatening beaches along the coast as competitors are gearing up for the 25th annual National Kidney Surf Festival in Cocoa Beach. Set up is underway and...

ORLANDO -- In four weeks, the new Amway Center will open. Friday was the deadline for substantial completion of the streetscape project surrounding it. Currently, orange barrels, piles of rubble...

Esplanade Apartments LLC bought the 186-unit Esplanade at Millenia on Aug. 18 from Chevy Chase, Md.-based CS Esplanade LLC, an entity related to lender CapitalSource Finance LLC, Orange County...

The list names David Evans as a possible witness. Evans is the attorney for former meter reader Roy Kronk, and could be disqualified from representing Kronk if he is asked to take the stand.Evans...

Share ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Students and staff at the University of Central Florida rallied in support of Dr. Jennifer Vest on Friday.Vest, a philosophy professor, claims she was discriminated...

BALLOON BOY FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The family at the center of the balloon boy hoax has moved out of the house where the fateful trip began, leaving Colorado for Florida.Richard and Mayumi Heene and...

A senior law enforcement official says the scientist detained at Miami International Airport because of a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic...

WFTV counted more than 60 students getting on the bus in Osceola County at just one stop and parents said there are usually more than 70.Video shot by a Narcoossee Middle School student shows kids...

There is a staggering new demand for food for elderly people in Central Florida. Requests for help from Meals on Wheels in Seminole County are up more than 1,000 percent in the past five years and...

Neighbors in Pine Hills are desperate to redevelop. They say their community is full of abandoned buildings and blight, but if neighbors want it cleaned up they may have to pay.A consulting company...

Whale soup for dinner? That was apparently on one man's menu before being taken into custody for cutting the tail off a dead, beached whale in...

Investigators conducting a dig at a home near the residence of a missing Volusia County woman Friday afternoon pulled a body from the woods.The identity of the body has not been determined.Goldie...

A Eustis man was arrested Thursday and charged with falsely telling a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife and child and was about to kill his infant.Eustis police said Robert Brooks, 21, call...