Jose Melendez-Perez turned away Mohamed al-Qahtani at Orlando International Airport weeks before 9/11, leaving Flight 93 with one fewer hijacker.

The Petals of Hope Foundation's eighth annual Taste the Hope event returns October 4, backing a fund that gets Central Florida patients to treatment.

Orlando starts Wednesday clear and muggy, but storms move in after 2 p.m. The wet pattern sticks around through the weekend with heat, lightning and flooding concerns.

The Charlotte chicken chain's new State Road 436 store gave its first 50 dine-in guests $100 gift cards on opening day.

Orlando starts clear Tuesday before afternoon thunderstorms bring heavy rain, lightning and a localized flooding threat. More hot, stormy weather is lined up through the weekend.

Jacob Spencer Howard, 4-foot-9 with blonde hair, vanished from a gated Kissimmee neighborhood along Lake Toho.

The Curry Ford West restaurant started as an East End Market pop-up tent before earning back-to-back Michelin stars.

A 9-year-old girl survived the fiery Orange County wreck with minor injuries after an earlier crash near mile marker 69.

David Lee Crump, 67, allegedly threatened to kill a warehouse worker before shooting him in the arm near Boice Pond Road.

After her national Hocus Pocus spoof tour collapsed, the Drag Race champ is adding a surprise 75-minute cabaret at the Renaissance Theatre.

A storm near Suntree prompted a tornado warning Friday evening, with a separate severe thunderstorm alert covering Satellite Beach and Palm Shores.

Madison Smith admitted she never increased the formula amounts as her premature twins grew. Leroy Somersall III now awaits his own sentencing in October.

Commissioners approved rezoning for the 84,200-square-foot project but want new names and renderings before the September 9 vote.