150 face homelessness almost 1 year after leaving Puerto Rico; here’s …
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - About 45 families who relocated to Central Florida after Hurricane Maria ravaged the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico could become homeless Friday.
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More than 1 Billion in Federal Food Disaster Food Assistance Distributed
The Florida Department of Children and Families today released updates on the federal Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program operations in Florida. To date, in response to Hurricane Irma, DCF has distributed more than $1 billion in federal disaster food assistance through DSNAP, supplemental benefits, and replacements for regular SNAP customers.
JaxPort board votes full steam ahead on starting $484 million dredging project
Alfredo Gonzalez, Visit Florida's vice president of global meetings and trade, has turned in his resignation and will depart the agency on July 8. Gonzalez's departure leaves a hole in Visit Florida's campaign to market the state's tourism industry in lucrative markets such as the United Kingdom, Germany and the Middle East. He followed International Marketing Program Director Shari Bailey, who resigned on Saturday.
Sheriff: Fired worker had plan to kill former co-workers
A recently fired worker from an awning company in Florida followed through with a plan to kill his former colleagues, singling out five and fatally shooting them in the head before taking his own life, authorities said. John Robert Neumann Jr., 45, shot and killed himself at the sound of approaching sirens Monday.
Fired worker kills five at Orlando factory, then himself as siren approached: sheriff
People arrive at a staging center setup by the Orange County Sheriff's Office after a deadly shooting Monday in Orlando, Florida. A man who was fired from a Florida awning factory in April returned Monday with a gun and methodically killed several people, then took his own life, authorities said.
Sheriff: Fired worker kills 5, then self as siren approached
A lone gunman returned with a semi-automatic pistol to the Orlando awning factory where was fired in April and methodically killed five people Monday, then killed himself at the sound of an approaching siren, authorities said. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings identified the shooter as John Robert Neumann Jr., a 45-year-old Army veteran who lived alone and did not appear to be a member of any type of subversive or terrorist organization.
Weeks after Pulse rampage, medical examiner faces his trauma
In this July 1, 2016 photo, Orange County, Fla., Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany sits in his office in Orlando, Fla. Stephany and his staff conducted the autopsies on all 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, and the shooter Omar Mateen.