Pine Hills

As part of an effort to give away 500,000 books nationwide during the holidays, Orange County Head Starts are getting free books from Reading is Fundamental, a children's literacy nonprofit. In addition to the BETA Center, all Orange County Head Start...

Take a look at Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings' response this morning to Sunday's Orlando Sentinel editorial about his handling of certain controversies involving the department. The sheriff defends his handling of a shooting at a Pine Hills...

Forty-five children from Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida found out this month that they will be taking the trip of a lifetime next month when they board Disney Cruise Line's newest ship, the Disney Dream. The two-night cruise, which leaves Port...

In case you missed it, here's our story about Evans High becoming a “community school,” a place that would offer health and dental services, after-school programs and adult-education classes, among other options. A $175,000 grant from Chase...

 That's what a teacher asked reporter Lauren Roth in a story about Imani Elementary Charter School, a struggling Orange County charter school. The school also lacks computers, bus service, field trips, a play ground (or physical education program) and...

Murders rose but other serious crimes declined during the first six months of 2010, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Tuesday. Forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft all went down, compared to...

As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business hours on a Saturday in August, handcuffing barbers in front of customers during a busy back-to-school weekend. It was just one of a...

Mold clung to the ceiling and left dark trails across the walls and floor. The teacher had already complained about the stench months before. Stuff was even growing on desks. Classroom 103 at Walker Middle School in Orlando had become a breeding...

Here's a strange one, even by FloriDUH standards. Guess all the talk about being arisen during Easter stirred this man into action. It was almost 6:00 a.m. on Easter Monday when a man broke into a Christian radio station in the Pine Hills neighborhood...

Are you sleeping more soundly this week? I know I am, now that the Orange County Sheriff's Office has concluded an unprecedented sweep of barbershops that yielded nearly three-dozen charges of … wait for it … criminal barbering. Sure,...

Though he defended the actions of his deputies during a series of unorthodox inspections of barbershops in the Pine Hills area, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said today there was "no question we could have done things better." In two sweeps on Aug....