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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Two Orlando Police Department officers have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in a July 2023 shooting.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Six Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies involved in a September 2023 fatal shooting have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Earlier this year, State Attorney Andrew Bain launched Turning Pages, a juvenile literacy pilot program to identify and address literacy issues among at-risk youth in Orange and Osceola counties. The first group of five students completed the 12-week intensive program in April.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange jury found an Orlando man, Mykenry Francois, 28, guilty of First Degree Murder with a Firearm after he fatally shot a man in 2021.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange County jury found Andres Robayo Cardenas, 23, guilty of First Degree Murder after he and his accomplices beat, robbed, kidnapped, shot and killed a man in 2019.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange County jury found Lyndell Demps, 52, guilty of Home Invasion Robbery, Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon and three counts of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon after he attacked a family in a home in Orlando.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange County jury found Stephen Bodley, 26, guilty of Sexual Battery on a Child after he openly admitted to it during a job interview for the Apopka Police Department.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange County jury found a Leesburg man, D'Wann Bentley, 25, guilty of First Degree Murder with a Firearm after he shot and killed a man in Orange County in 2021.