Orlando

Associated PressJanuary 10, 2017

Law enforcement officers in Orlando were engaged in a massive manhunt early Tuesday for a man accused of fatally shooting a police officer who approached him outside a Wal-Mart. The manhunt itself has led to the death of a sheriff’s deputy in a traffic accident and the injury of another officer. Master Sgt. Debra Clayton, […]

Larry GriffinJanuary 9, 2017

The Orlando Eye, always a sort of emotional thermometer for the city, shone a bright shade of blue Monday night in remembrance of the death of Orlando Police Master Sergeant Debra Clayton, shot to death Monday morning. In the past, the Eye has shone rainbow colors for the Pulse nightclub shooting and other colors to […]

Larry GriffinJanuary 9, 2017

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Orlando Police Chief John Mina was sure of himself standing before a crowd Monday afternoon – they were going to catch Markeith Loyd, the suspect in the killing of Master Sergeant Debra Clayton by firearm earlier in the day. “It doesn’t matter where he goes,” Mina said. “We’ll track him to the ends of the […]

Scott PowersJanuary 9, 2017

U.S. Rep. Val Demings – a retired Orlando police chief who spent 26 years on the force before entering politics – is “devastated” to hear about the murder of her former colleague Orlando Police Department Master Sergeant Debra Clayton followed by the traffic death of an Orange County deputy sheriff working that scene, Demings office […]

Larry GriffinJanuary 9, 2017

Two law enforcement officials were killed on Monday morning – Orlando Police Department Master Sergeant Debra Clayton as well as an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy in a motorcycle crash while pursuing Loyd in a chase afterwards. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has said today shall be a “day of mourning.” “[Debra Clayton’s] death and her injuries, the death of the […]

Associated PressJanuary 9, 2017

Authorities in Orlando say that an Orange County deputy sheriff was killed in a traffic accident while searching for a suspect in the shooting death of an Orlando police officer Monday. Sheriff Jerry Demings told a press conference that the deputy sheriff was riding a motorcycle while pursuing Markeith Loyd, 41. Loyd is suspected in […]

Associated PressJanuary 9, 2017

An Orlando police officer who was gunned down while on duty has died. Orlando police announced the officer’s death on its official Twitter account Monday morning. The shooting happened near a Walmart store in Orlando earlier Monday morning. The tweet said, “One of our own was taken in the line of duty. There are no […]

Scott PowersJanuary 6, 2017

As Colorado became a medical marijuana state and then a recreational marijuana state the laws of the land became increasingly surreal, at least in the images drawn Friday by that state’s assistant attorney general for marijuana laws for the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida. Law enforcement officers losing probable cause triggers for searches. Schools […]

Scott PowersJanuary 6, 2017

Orlando’s freshman U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy took her first swings on the floor of Congress Thursday night, pushing an amendment she offered to protect one of the more popular provisions of Obamacare from repeal, but the amendment failed. Murphy, the Winter Park Democrat, introduced a proposed amendment that would have shielded a rule that allows […]

Larry GriffinJanuary 5, 2017

The soon-to-open Orlando City Soccer stadium will have a section of seats painted in bright, proud rainbow colors to celebrate and memorialize the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. There will be 49 seats painted that way in total – one for each person lost in the shooting. They’ll all be emblazoned with the hashtag […]

Orlando

Orlando mourns deaths of 2 law enforcement officers

Orlando Eye shines blue in remembrance of fallen police sergeant

John Mina ready to go ‘to the ends of the Earth’ to catch shooting suspect Markeith Loyd

Val Demings ‘devastated’ by Orlando officer deaths

Buddy Dyer calls for ‘day of mourning’ after officer deaths

Sheriff: Deputy killed in motorcycle crash while searching for man who shot and killed Orlando police officer

Police: Officer killed in Orlando, suspect still at large

Colorado official describes wild west of law with marijuana

Stephanie Murphy proposal for ACA amendment falls in Congress

Orlando City Soccer stadium unveils 49 rainbow-colored seats as tribute to Pulse victims