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There was standing room only at the biannual Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Member Recognition Ceremony, which took place Wednesday night and saw dozens of law enforcement officers praised for various acts of bravery over the last several months.

The three teenage suspects in the slaying of Gail Cleavenger in DeBary last week will be tried as adults in court, State Attorney R.J. Larizza and the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.

Gregory Ramos, a 15-year-old University High School student, allegedly murdered Cleavenger, his mother, earlier this month after an argument about bad grades.

Teen Challenge, the Christian-based rehabilitation camp that has a branch in Sanford serving adult men, recently got a donation that’s allowing them to completely build up new facilities to replace their decades-old ones.

Preliminary work ahead of construction is underway near the future Wekiva Parkway interchange that will connect State Road (S.R.)  429 to Interstate 4 (I4) and S.R. 417 – finishing Central Florida’s beltway. Gopher tortoises relocation prior to construction is one of those activities.

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Sanford police responded to the McDonald’s on N. French Avenue Saturday after they said he refused to leave the premises.

Two Sanford elementary schools with low grades, Idyllwilde and Pine Crest, are working hard to raise them, principals say.

School grades are determined by a number of factors, including student achievement, learning gains, graduation or passing to the next grade, and focusing on students who need help.

Over the next six months, the Sanford Police Department is ready to step up their game to combat pedestrian and bike deaths on the roads.

In a press release, they announce a period of High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) around the area of State Road 17/92 in the city from November 2018 to May 2019.

Monday’s City Commission meeting saw a proposed ordinance regulating charitable donation bins move forward after its first reading.

The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens will be partnering with Southeastern Data to celebrate America Recycles Day on Thursday, November 15. We are inviting residents of the Central Florida community to drop off electronics at the Zoo for recycling. In exchange, recyclers will receive a ticket for single-day admission to the Zoo for each acceptable item dropped off.

Looking to the future, a new pilot project in Altamonte Springs aims at purifying water and also educating middle schoolers on why such things are important.

The pureALTA pilot project is based on taking reclaimed water and running it through a filtration system to purify it to levels exceeding normal drinking water.