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Darrell Reid, 38, worked for the Broward Medical Examiner's Office documenting scenes by taking photographs, according to an arrest warrant.

Should it be harder for a ballot initiative to pass in Florida?Right now for an amendment to be enshrined in the Florida Constitution, it needs to be approved by 60% of the state’s voters. But Florida lawmakers are proposing to increase that threshold to 66.67%. To do that, they’d need to ask voters via a ballot initiative.

The city of Ocoee is partnering with Orange Blossom Market Co. and Cluckerz Chicken to host monthly community markets. The first takes place Thursday, Feb. 1.

Nine Central Florida cities and towns are holding elections for local government seats on March 19.

An Orange County woman accused of taking a person with disabilities to a facility that investigators said didn’t have a proper license has been arrested, according to Apopka police.

The man in a red long-sleeve t-shirt who stole a cash register from a Walmart is back behind bars, authorities say.

There are 21 cities in Florida that have police review boards, including Fort Myers and Bradenton, and bills introduced in the Florida legislature would prohibit them. A bill sponsor said the boards are divisive only second-guess police and don't have the experience to do that.

A proposal would do away with existing police review boards around the state and prevent local governments from creating panels to delve into complaints of police wrongdoing.

A Florida Senate committee approved an effort to ban review boards that investigate local law enforcement.

The Ocoee Chapter of National Society Daughters of the America Revolution presented the DAR Excellence in Historic Preservation Medal to the Historic Cleveland Neighborhood Association for its recent reprinting of