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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- For law enforcement and rescue personnel on scene this morning, it was the proverbial "hope against hope" that a 2-year-old Nebraska boy snatched in the jaws of an alligator near the shore of posh Disney resort lagoon Tuesday night and dragged into the murky waters would be found alive.

Carnage: 20 dead in what's described as 'act of domestic terrorism' 

ORLANDO, Fla. -- This is one of those crazy weekends where the carnage is on oh so real and when the cops are clearly on the front lines. 

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With summer just days away, here's some good news for thew World's Most Famous Beach®: Condominium sales in greater Daytona Beach rose marginally in the month of May -- in a year-over-year comparison as prices dipped slightly.

That's the latest analysis from The Wyse Home Team at Keller-Williams Realty in Port Orange.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Perhaps it was destined that a municipal city manager in Ohio would have an impact on a Central Florida metro area whose key city has one more letter at the end of its name than the one he left a decade ago in Ohio.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Guy Mariande, husband of New Smyrna Beach City Commissioner Judy Reiker, often a fixture at her municipal meetings and an avid boater, died from cancer on Monday, June 6, 2016. He was 75.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for inland and coastal areas of Volusia County, Orange, Seminole,Brevard and Lake counties, according to the NationalWeather Service in Melbourne, which is tracking TS Colin located about 360 miles west-southwest of Orlando with 50 mph winds and moving north-northeast at 16 mph.

Latest on the storm's path

Colin continues to move northward over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The storm is expected to approach the Big Bend coastline this evening before passing to the north of the area overnight tonight and emerging into the Atlantic Ocean early Tuesday morning.

Downloaded images allegedly include a girl performing a sex act on a dog

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- A local man is in custody in Georgia, facing 30 counts of child pornography, after the Volusia County Sheriff's Office received a tip earlier this year the 53-year-old Edgewater man had been downloading images of young children engaged in sexual situations, including a girl performing a sex act on a dog, an agency spokesman said.

Ordinarily a third-degree felony, the charges against Daniel Cravener were elevated to second-degree felonies because some of the downloaded images found in his possession included victims believed to be as young as 5 years old, Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson stated in a press release earlier on this Saturday,  which was emailed to Headline Surfer® and other Central Florida media outlets that provide daily breaking news coverage.