‘Whiplash-y weather’: A brief shot of summer, then a cooldown

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/19 7:14A Martin E. Comas

Summer will make a brief visit to Central Florida this weekend, when temperatures are expected to soar to near-record highs on Friday and Saturday and lead some residents to click on their air conditioners for the first time in weeks. Then, after...

Police: Orlando law prof had hundreds of child porn images on hard drive

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/19 7:03A Steven Walker

The Barry University law professor arrested this week had hundreds, and possibly thousands, of pornographic photos and videos of children on his hard drive, according to the affidavit for his arrest released Thursday. The disturbing images...

Residents, commissioner outraged over firing of Kissimmee city attorney

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/19 6:35A Natalia Jaramillo

Kissimmee is getting some major blowback over the termination of its city attorney earlier this month, with a commissioner, the former attorney s brother and residents arguing the city s allegations of performance issues and millions of dollars...

Universal selling weeklong ticket deals that include Epic

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/19 4:07A Dewayne Bevil

Universal Orlando has started selling a new weeklong ticket that includes park-to-park access and multiday visits to Epic Universe theme park. Universal s official website says buyers can move freely between Epic, Universal Studios Florida,...

Foggy start for Central Florida before temperatures in the 80s

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/19 12:46A Garfield Hylton

Thursday morning is off to a foggy start. Dense fog is affecting several portions of east Central Florida, according to NWS Melbourne. Okeechobee, Indian River, Saint Lucie and Martin counties are heavily affected. After the fog dissipates,...

Worrell says funds for victim advocacy in jeopardy, blames Uthmeier

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/18 11:00P Camila Gomez

Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell says that funding to help “our most vulnerable victims” of crime could be slashed this year because Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier rewrote a federal contract in a way that sets her office up...

Preservationists fear historic house near Lake Eola may be torn down

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/18 11:00P Camila Gomez

The last remaining historical home facing Lake Eola could be demolished so the park’s entrance can be expanded, and that has upset residents who think the nearly 100-year-old Mediterranean-style...

Epic play is monumental endeavor: ‘Have I had any sleep?’

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/18 11:00P Matthew J. Palm

Actor Ben Gaetanos sums up the feeling after spending five months of learning and performing one of the most celebrated — but most demanding — plays in modern theater: Where are we? What s happening?...

Florida House passes bill to add transparency on conservation land decisions

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/18 11:00P Max Chesnes

The Florida House unanimously passed a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would shed more light on state conservation decisions after a series of recent public lands controversies gave little room for public input. The measure,  House Bill 441 , would...

Temperatures peak above 80 for much of Central Florida

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/18 12:46A Garfield Hylton

On Wednesday, Central will be partly sunny and warmer across the region. Peak temperatures are in the low 80s, with only a 10 percent chance of rain in Stuart, according to NWS Melbourne. There is a high risk for rip currents at all east Central...

Disney World: ‘Frozen’ ride updates, seadragons arrive at Epcot

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/18 12:07A Dewayne Bevil

Elsa and Anna have had work done. Kristoff, too. It’s fun to say and pretty accurate, too, as animatronics within Epcot’s Frozen Ever After ride have been upgraded. It’s all from the neck up on the...

In music, Byeol Kim is ‘living a different life’

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/17 11:00P Matthew J. Palm

When Byeol Kim gets in the zone, she doesn t just play the music — she lives the music. I almost feel like I m living a different life at that moment, she says. I totally forget about my real life. It...

29 swans died, but Lake Eola’s avian flu outbreak may be over

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/16 8:17A Ryan Gillespie

It’s been nearly a month since any swans have died at Lake Eola Park amid a bout with avian flu, signaling that perhaps the deadly outbreak among Orlando s iconic swan population has run its course....

Pictures: Lake Eola swans update

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/16 6:52A Joe Burbank

Visitors enjoy watching swans at Lake Eola Park in Orlando, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. With no new swan deaths reported at the lake in several weeks, city officials and swan advocates are cautiously...

Orlando police: 4 teens wounded in Sunday afternoon shootout

Local News : Orlando Sentinel 2/16 4:40A Ryan Gillespie

Four minors were wounded in a Sunday afternoon shooting outside of a Parramore soul food restaurant, in what police suspect was a shootout between teens, Orlando Police said in a news release. Orlando Police officers responded to Sister Soul Food...