A little boy at the restaurant's table wore a mask and a hoodie, but bruises peeked out from behind all of them. The server quickly showed him a note: Do you need help?
Flaviane Carvalho, a waitress at Mrs. Potato Restaurant, notified Orlando police about an 11-year-old boy who appeared to have been abused. Police later described the extent of the abuse as "torture."
During the first week in January, Orlando’s two main hospitals filled 96 percent of their intensive care unit beds and several smaller hospitals reached 100 percent of ICU capacity as COVID hospitalizations surge, according to newly released data. AdventHealth Orlando, which includes the company’s hospitals in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties reported an average of 434 COVID patients overall for the week the largest number by far of any hospital division in the state.
The St. Cloud police officer who killed a man suspected of brutally stabbing a 9-year-old won’t face charges following a months-long investigation by state authorities and a review by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office.
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