ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Carlos Durden was appointed as the new director of the Orange County Office of Emergency Management on Tuesday. Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings announced the appointment ...

The previous Heat record for points in a first quarter was 25, done by LeBron James at Cleveland on March 18, 2014. James had the only other 25-point quarter in Heat history, part of his team-record, ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Bethune-Cookman men’s basketball team begins the SWAC Tournament just three wins away from the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats are searching for their first trip to the Big ...

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in league history to carry the Miami Heat to a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night ...

Two more members of the Iranian women’s soccer team were granted asylum in Australia before their teammates departed, the country’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday ...

OVIEDO, Fla. — Oviedo and Seminole County fire crews extinguished a brush fire caused by lightning in the Live Oak Subdivision. The fire was reported at 12:43 p.m. after a storm system moved through ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County firefighters are monitoring a fire at a scrap yard. Crews battled a large blaze in sweltering heat. Rescuers say a 50-by-50 pile of scrap metal caught fire at ...

The Orange County School Board unanimously approved the closure of seven schools across the district on Tuesday night. The decision was driven mainly by declining enrollment numbers and prolonged low ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County commissioners approved a resolution Tuesday formally opposing the establishment of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility within their jurisdiction.

A Broward County judge has issued a detailed 21-page order stating that law enforcement agencies are required to verify a driver’s identity before issuing red-light camera citations. The ruling, which ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed ...

Wilt Chamberlain has some NBA records that might never get touched, like the 100-point game, 4,000 points in a season and a ...