Former Sanford pastor arrested in Virginia, charged with sex crimes against underage girls at...

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/8 9:48A Silas Morgan

A Sanford man police said inappropriately touched two underage girls and sexually assaulted one of them when he was pastor at a local church was arrested Wednesday in Virginia. Yersson David Solarte Basto, 33, formerly of Ipul Pentecostal Church...

Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ at St. Mary’s on Chicago’s South...

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/8 8:45A Angie Leventis Lourgos, Gregory

Catholics across the region are celebrating the historic announcement that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area. In his first words as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost...

Orlando doctor pleads guilty after offering unapproved oil for butt injections

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/8 7:04A Garfield Hylton

An Orlando doctor pleaded guilty to violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for offering silicone oil for gluteal and butt injections, according to a Thursday press release from the Department of Justice. Nhan Pham, 54, was a doctor who...

Orange deputies kill woman after 911 call about attack inside Orlando apartment

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/8 6:59A Cristóbal Reyes

A woman was fatally shot Wednesday night by Orange County deputy sheriffs after she attacked them with a knife in an apartment as they responded to a report of someone being battered and strangled, according to the Sheriff s Office. Around 11...

Heavy rainfall, marginally severe storms and hot weather for Thursday

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/8 1:34A Garfield Hylton

Thursday is another warm and active weather day for Central Florida. There are scattered to numerous showers and storms forecasted for the afternoon, according to NWS Melbourne. Locally heavy rainfall could lead to minor flooding and poor driving...

Amid Florida property tax debate, city and county budgets have ballooned

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/8 12:19A Ryan Gillespie

Central Florida county budgets have ballooned since 2020, fueled partly by rising property tax collections that have pumped billions more dollars into municipal accounts. In Orange County, the annual spending plan grew by $1.7 billion in the last...

Unique ‘Treemonisha’ comes to Orlando with potent message for our times

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/7 11:00P Matthew J. Palm

When Treemonisha takes the stage at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts , it represents more than an evening s entertainment. Opera Orlando is presenting the Florida premiere of this...

Osceola County things to do, starting May 9

Orlando Sentinel (Osceola County News) 5/7 8:14A Joe Rassel

What’s happening Keeping Backyard Chickens: Learn how to keep chickens for fun and egg production. Topics include: chicken breeds, raising chicks, designing coops and pens, chicken health and nutrition. Meets educational requirement for city and...

UF presidential finalist lauds faculty, students and DeSantis

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/7 3:43A Jeffrey Schweers

GAINESVILLE –  Santa J. Ono’s introduction to the faculty, staff and students of the University of Florida was a carefully scripted, stage-managed meet and greet at the school s spacious and gleaming Emerson Alumni Hall. Ono, the current president...

Wednesday is very warm with late day showers and storms in the forecast

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/7 1:30A Garfield Hylton

Temperatures are expected to be in the 80s and 90s across the region. Numerous showers and lightning storms are forecasted, according to NWS Melbourne. The highest coverage and greatest intensity will be across the Interstate 4 corridor. Severe...

At annual festival, Orlando Fringe looks to regroup and revive

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/6 11:00P Matthew J. Palm

After a precipitous attendance drop in 2024, a subsequent attack by Gov. Ron DeSantis as he defunded arts organizations statewide, a sudden leadership change and the closing of its first year-round...

Maxwell: From homeless to high-demand. The journey of Orlando’s poet laureate

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/6 7:23A Scott Maxwell

Nobody goes into poetry to get rich. But at Shawn Welcome s low point, he was pretty much homeless. He was married with children, yet relying on friends and relatives to take them in. It can be a...

Orlando commissioner Tony Ortiz switches from Republican to Democrat

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/6 7:23A Ryan Gillespie

Orlando city commissioner Tony Ortiz has switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, citing his disagreement with GOP positions on issues ranging from immigration to banning certain books in schools and dismantling diversity,...

Mother’s Day in Orlando: Ways to celebrate this weekend

Orlando Sentinel (Osceola County News) 5/6 6:00A Patrick Connolly

Mother’s Day is May 11, presenting a day dedicated to expressing gratitude and love toward moms, grandmothers and other maternal figures. It’s a day often filled with family time, gifts, good food and...

Former DeLand High, University of Miami football player charged with murder after bar shootout

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 5/6 4:50A Richard Tribou

Former DeLand High School and University of Miami football player Avantae Williams has been charged with second-degree murder after police arrested him following a weekend shooting at a DeLand bar that left one man dead and another injured....