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SANFORD, Fla. -- It is with "profound sadness" that the Seminole County Sheriff's Office shares the passing of Detention Deputy Corey Williams, who has passed away peacefully at his home. He was 47 years old.

TAMPA, Fla. -- A dog was discovered in a cage on the shoulder of northbound I-275 in Tampa early Wednesday morning by a motorist who alerted the Florida Highway Patrol.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A joint investigation is underway following deaths in New Smyrna and South Daytona, cops in both jurisdictions said Wednesday.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Sanford Police Investigators have arrested Silverio Edinson Paez Lezama on charges of possession of child pornography, including some enhanced charges.

DELAND, Fla. – After a four-day trial, a Volusia County jury found defendant Danitto Simpson guilty as charged of first-degree murder with a firearm, and immediately following the verdict, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A Palm Coast man faces life behind bars at sentencing next month for shooting two Bethune-Cookman University students in 2023, one of whom was left paralyzed from the waist down.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia sheriff’s deputies and police searching for victims of a multiple stabbing Saturday night in Daytona Beach were forced to fatally shoot the suspect after he burst through a door and charged at them with a knife, a spokesman for Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said in a press release.

ST. CLOUD, Fla. -- Deputies responded the evening of July 4th to a house off Deer Run Road about a residential burglary where a prowler was shot.

PIERSON, Fla. -- Two brothers were killed when a train struck their vehicle at a railroad crossing at the intersection of West Washington Avenue and North Volusia Avenue (also known as County Road 3).