WFTV 9 Orlando

Tag Heuer To Assess Relationship With Tiger Woods
WFTV 9 Orlando – 2 hrs 55 mins ago

Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer said it will spend the next few weeks assessing its relationship with golfer Tiger Woods. Full Story »
USF Coach Leavitt Accused Of Hitting Player
WFTV 9 Orlando – 2 hrs 55 mins ago

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The University of South Florida plans to look into a report that football coach Jim Leavitt struck one of his players in the face during halftime of a game last month. Full Story »
Dollar General Robber Tackles Employee
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 6:44 pm ET

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- It was closing time at an Orange County Dollar General store and, as a store employee was mopping the floor, a man wearing a hood sneaked up behind her, tackled her and put her in a headlock right before he cleared out a cash drawer. Full Story »
Economists: Fla. Home Values Will Plummet
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 6:29 pm ET

WFTV is working to look after your money and found out that Orange County is considering a startling prediction that home values will plummet another 9 percent in 2010. Full Story »
iPods, Laptops Stolen From School District HQ
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 6:14 pm ET

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- You've heard of schools being broken into or vandalized before, but Monday Eyewitness News reporter George Spencer learned even the Orange County School District headquarters on Amelia Street couldn't keep thieves out. Full Story »
New Casselberry Parking Rules Anger Residents
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 6:14 pm ET

CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- Casselberry city leaders are angering more homeowners with more new rules restricting how they park. A few months ago, the city told homeowners they couldn't park their work trucks at their homes. Full Story »
Passenger Traffic Up At Daytona Beach Airport
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 5:59 pm ET

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There may finally be a turnaround for Daytona Beach International Airport. It's had declining air traffic every month for the past year and a half until November. In November, passenger traffic increased by 12 percent. Full Story »
Teen's Mistaken Release May Have Led To Standoff
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 5:44 pm ET

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A four-hour standoff in Melbourne on Friday may have started with a teenager's mistaken release from the Brevard Juvenile Detention Center. Full Story »
Latest Alleged Tiger Mistress From Florida
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 5:44 pm ET

RadarOnline.com reports ( read it ) Theresa Rodgers of Wellington, Florida, is Tiger's oldest mistress, reportedly in her 40s. She claims she had a relationship with Tiger before and during his marriage. Full Story »
Man Attacked By Bear Gets Death Threats
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 5:15 pm ET

LONGWOOD, Fla. -- Family of the Longwood man, who was swatted in the face by a black bear, told Eyewitness News he's getting death threats. Wildlife officers captured and killed the black bear over the weekend after last week's attack. Full Story »
One Suspect IDd In Hoax Bomb Robbery Attempt
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 5:14 pm ET

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Police have identified one of the men accused of threatening to bomb an Orlando check cashing store. Investigators say Joseph Turner went into the Amscot on Goldenrod Road on Sunday. Full Story »
1 Dead, 6 In Hospital After Charter Bus Crash
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 5:14 pm ET

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- One person was killed and six others were taken to a hospital after a car crashed head-on into a charter bus in Brevard County. Cruise ship crew members and passengers on board the bus were examined by paramedics after the crash Monday afternoon on Merritt Island. Full Story »
Man Accused Of Raping 92-Year-Old Relative
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 4:14 pm ET

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A 92-year-old Melbourne woman is starting the long road to recovery at Holmes Regional Medical Center after she was allegedly raped at her home on University Boulevard. Full Story »
"Help-Portrait" Takes Holiday Pictures For Homeless
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 2:14 pm ET

CENTRAL FLORIDA -- Lost jobs in Central Florida this year have led to an explosion in the number of homeless families now living in local shelters. However, a special act of charity is helping those families regain a feeling of home. Full Story »
Report: Elin Woods To Leave Tiger In Jan.
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 12:45 pm ET

Tiger Woods' wife, Elin, will leave the world's top golfer after the holidays, British tabloid News of the World reports. Full Story »
Tag Heuer Continues To Sponsor Tiger Woods
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 12:44 pm ET

GENEVA -- Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer said Monday it will continue its association with Tiger Woods despite the golfer's alleged infidelities. Full Story »
Networks Already Know About Life Without Tiger
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 12:44 pm ET

The television networks already know what life without Tiger Woods looks like, and they were going to take that knowledge into their upcoming negotiations for the next contract with the PGA Tour. Full Story »
Deputies Arrest Seven In Cockfighting Raid
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 9:59 am ET

PLANT CITY, Fla. -- Seven people have been arrested in a cockfighting raid in Hillsborough County. A sheriff's office report says one person is charged with baiting and fighting animals. The other six are charged with attending an event with fighting animals. Full Story »
Hotel Guests Moved After Bacteria Kills One
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 9:45 am ET

MIAMI -- About 300 guests have been relocated from a luxury Miami hotel after one guest died and at least two others became sick from a bacteria in the water. Full Story »
Man Drives To Hospital With Gunshot To Head
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 9:44 am ET

HUDSON, Fla. -- A Kentucky man was able to drive himself to the hospital after being shot in the head. Pasco County authorities say 38-year-old Michael Lee Gibson of Pinetop, Ky., was shot Sunday morning in a vacant lot in Hudson, about 30 miles north of Tampa. Full Story »
Driver Hospitalized After Neighborhood Crash
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 9:44 am ET

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A driver is in the hospital Monday morning after he crashed into three cars outside an Orange County home. Troopers say the driver also crashed into a mailbox, a light pole and a palm tree in the Quail Trail neighborhood off Goldenrod Road and Pershing Avenue Sunday night. Full Story »
Home Condemned, Smashed By Airborne Truck
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 8:29 am ET

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orlando husband and wife had to find a new place to sleep Sunday night after a driver drove right into their house. The damage from Sunday morning's crash was so severe that the city had to condemn the home. Full Story »
Turnpike Still Closed After Fiery Wreck
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 7:59 am ET

Deputies say it could be weeks before the Florida Turnpike fully reopens in Lake county, following a fiery tractor trailer crash. AT THE SCENE: Images Of Tractor-Trailer, Damage VIDEO REPORT: Semi Bursts Into Flames GO TO: WFTV Traffic Section Full Story »
Robber Puts Clerk In Headlock, Demands Cash
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 7:29 am ET

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Orange County deputies are looking for a robber who put a store clerk in a headlock and then took off with cash. The incident happened at the Dollar General store near Edgewater and Lee Road on Sunday night. Full Story »
Home Invaders Hold Two Women At Gunpoint
WFTV 9 Orlando – Mon Dec 14, 7:14 am ET

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- Police in Sanford are looking for three armed men who held two women at gunpoint during a home invasion. Police say two of the men were wearing masks when they got into the apartment in the Regatta Shores complex across from Lake Monroe. Full Story »