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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The magical figure of 100,000 Biketoberfest participants for the 25th anniversary is not real. It's fake news. 

All too real is the carnage as in dead bikers. 

The numbers of bikers for the four-day motorcycycle may approach 50,000 participants, if the weather holds up. Among the dead

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- The Seminole County School district has seen a dramatic spike in student enrollment in the past couple of weeks.

Dramatic enough to fill the equivalent of three classrooms, district officials say. The sudden influx comes from families leaving Puerto Rico, many of them to Central Florida since the massive devastation from Hurricane Maria.   

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- The Tomoka Landfill and West Volusia Transfer Station will resume normal operating hours beginning Saturday, Oct. 14.

DELTONA, Fla. -- Zenaida Denizac has raised $5,780 in the past 12 days for relief aid to her brethren in her hometown of Mayaquez, Puerto Rico.

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Some two dozen students, teachers and staffers joined Seminole County School Board Chairwoman Amy Lockhart in receiving, sorting and packing disaster relief supplies for Puerto Rici brought in by countless citizens last Friday and Saturday in a large bay on district property at 239 Rinehart Road.

Most of the items were loaded into three larget U-Haul trucks and transported by plane Tuesday from Orlando-Sanford International Airport to San Juan. The equivalent of a truckload remained behind forr the expected arrival of serveral thousand Puerto Rican families in Central Florida over the next few weeks and months, said Lockharrt and school leaders from other school districts along the I-4 corridor, including Osceola, Orange and Volusia counties.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- WFTV's Nancy Alvarez spoke with the Orlando-area brother of the gunman responsible for the largest mass murder shooting in US history.e

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Fifteen months after the Pulse nightclub massacre here in Orlando, a lone gunman overnight in Las Vegas opened fire from a 32nd floor balcony of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into the crowd at an outdoor country music concert during a closing performance by Jason Aldean, killing at least 58 and injuring 500-plus others.