Mike Valente
Community Correspondent
Mike joined WKMG-TV in January 2025. He's a Community Correspondent serving Orlando in Orange County.
Mike joined WKMG-TV in January 2025. He's a Community Correspondent serving Orlando in Orange County.
Prosecutors rested their case in the murder trial of the man accused of committing a deadly mass shooting during Halloween celebrations in downtown Orlando in 2024. Jaylen Edgar, 18, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.
The man charged in the deadly shooting in downtown Orlando during Halloween celebrations in 2024 acted in a premeditated manner, prosecutors argued Thursday in opening statements.
Jury selection is over in the murder trial of the 18-year-old man accused of shooting into a crowd during Halloween celebrations in downtown Orlando in 2024. Opening statements in the Jaylen Edgar trial start Thursday morning.
Brightline could be expanding service to the Space Coast as soon as 2030, after the city of Cocoa secured a $56.48 million federal grant for a rail station in the city. While Cocoa moves closer to bringing Brightline to the city, the company is moving closer to possible financial disaster.
Orlando police officers have had more than 800 encounters with e-mobility devices since the beginning of 2026, Orlando Police Department Chief Eric Smith revealed at a city workshop Monday.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood took to social media to accuse prosecutors in Orange and Osceola counties of being too lenient with a teen who is now accused of killing two people in DeLand. Chitwood’s post also put him in the middle of the ongoing feud between State Attorney Monique Worrell and Florida State Attorney James Uthmeier.
The Orlando Dreamers made their pitch Wednesday for nearly $1 billion to be dedicated to the construction of a new baseball stadium, despite the fact that the Dreamers do not yet have a team to field.
Three Chinese nationals are facing the possibility of decades in federal prison for their alleged involvement in a scheme to defraud seniors out of more than $2 million.
A board tasked with recommending how revenue from tourist development taxes will be spent is considering a multi-million dollar request to build a parking garage on the campus of Camping World Stadium.
Could the USA Men’s Basketball team’s quest for another gold medal begin in Orlando? It’s possible, but that push hit an obstacle a bit on Monday.
Florida’s top health official called the measles vaccine “effective” Friday, but stopped short of imploring people to get inoculated against the disease. According to data from the Florida Department of Health, there have been 155 measles cases in Florida since the start of the year, with three in Orange County and one in Osceola County.