Taco Bell sells 16 Central Florida restaurants

Bravo Food Group LLC took over 16 Taco Bells in Central Florida. Shown: Taco Bell employee Jason Sanders A Michigan franchisee bought 16 Taco Bell restaurants in Central Florida with plans to start renovating older stores and adding new ones here in the next 18 months.

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Judge accused of sexual harassment once helped women sue

Circuit Judge N. James Turner hasn’t worked since April because several women have accused him of sexually harassing them at the Osceola County Courthouse. It’s an issue with which he’s extremely familiar: He spent much of his career suing companies on behalf of women who made Read More

Trial date for man accused of killing his wife: Valentine’s Day

James Robert “Bob” Ward, is accused of fatally shooting his wife Diane Ward in the bedroom at their Isleworth mansion in Orlando on Sept. 21. Isleworth is the place Tiger Woods and his ex-wife called home. And Ward’s house was once owned by legendary golfer Arnold Palmer. Bob Read More

Egg-smashing birthday bash lands man in jail

Police said several people were at a Saturday night birthday party. As they gathered for the cake ceremony, a man walked up and broke three eggs on the birthday celebrant’s head, reports Florida Today in Melbourne. Angel Sanchez, 47, of Palm Bay, thought this was disrespectful. He told the man, Read More

Prankster filled locks with glue at high school

It was a sticky situation at Mount Dora High School on Monday. Workers in Lake County had to scramble on the first day of school after a prankster filled locks with super glue, reports WKMG News in Orlando. Solvent was used in some cases to fix the problem. But some locks had to be replaced, Read More

Cops: Man shot wife while training for robbery scenarios

Brevard County authorities said a man accidentally shot his wife in the chest in Cocoa on Sunday morning while the couple was training for robbery scenarios, reports WKMG News in Orlando. Arnold Morris pulled his small-caliber handgun out of his pocket during the drill and it accidentally Read More

Officials: Kids left in hot car while mom visits boyfriend in jail

Psalmai Thompson, 20, was arrested on a count of child neglect after she allegedly left her three children in a hot car while visiting her boyfriend at the Orange County Jail, reports the Orlando Sentinel . The children were discovered Sunday morning after a man told an Orange County Corrections Read More

Did Ground Zero mosque save Scott?

We know. You, the astute political observer, were probably wondering to yourself over the last couple weeks, why in the world is Naples millionaire Rick Scott so fixated on whether to build a mosque near ground zero in New York City? In the context of the Florida governor’s race, it is an Read More