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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 […]

Larry GriffinJanuary 4, 2017

Amber Mariano is a UCF student, but she’s also a newly-elected member of the House of Representatives from New Port Richey. That may be why her first two bills filed, HB 153 and HB 155, have to do with reducing the financial burden on college students. HB 153 deals with excess credit surcharges, increasing the […]

Scott PowersJanuary 4, 2017

Wednesday is the day that Orange County’s voters figured they had turned their sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, clerk of courts, supervisor of elections and comptroller into non-partisan, term-limited county officials – but it’s not happening. And it is unclear if it will ever happen. Late Tuesday Judge Bob Leblanc of Florida’s 9th Circuit Court […]

Scott PowersJanuary 3, 2017

NASA has extended additional flight contracts to the two private companies hired to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station and reported that the first such flight now is expected no earlier than May, 2018. In an announcement made Tuesday, NASA reported that Boeing and SpaceX now each will be hired to run […]

Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2017

U.S. Rep.-elect Stephanie Murphy has named her top congressional staff while announcing she intends to maintain two district offices – in Orange and Seminole counties, Murphy, the Winter Park Democrat elected in November to represent Florida’s 7th Congressional District, announced that Brad Howard will serve as her chief of staff, John Laufer as her deputy […]

Scott PowersJanuary 2, 2017

U.S. Rep.-elect Val Demings has announced her senior congressional staff, a mixture of those who supported her 2016 election in Orlando and some Washington D.C. savvy. That begins with Wendy Anderson as the Orlando Democrat’s chief of staff, and includes Caroline Rowland as her communications director and Sonja White as her district director in Central […]

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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

Amber Mariano, UCF student and Florida House member, files bills to reduce financial burden on students

Orange County’s charter amendments falling silently; despite election, no changes in county offices

NASA hires SpaceX, Boeing for more astronaut flights, pushes first to May 2018

Stephanie Murphy names senior congressional staff

Val Demings announces senior staff in Congress