Convenience Big Store: $50M gift to UCF | Teen charged as adult in Orlando shooting | Congressional maps | Magic, 76ers vie in play-in | Maxwell on campaign donations

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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$50M gift to UCF | Teen charged as adult in Orlando shooting | Congressional maps | Magic, 76ers vie in play-in | Maxwell on campaign donations | Live Nation, Ticketmaster jury finding

UCF receives $50 million from business alum, largest gift in school history

Barry Miller’s gift will help the business college hire new faculty members in fields such as artificial intelligence and cyber security.

Teen, 16, charged as adult in Orlando restaurant shooting

The teen allegedly fired four times in a “gang-related dispute.”

No movement on congressional maps ahead of Florida’s special session

Lawmakers have yet to lay much groundwork for Florida’s special session on congressional redistricting, which has garnered national attention and is set to begin Monday.

Jalen Suggs ready to help Magic in NBA postseason as pressure mounts

Magic guard Jalen Suggs missed out on the postseason a year ago, but he’s been looking forward to this time of the year. Orlando plays tonight at Philadelphia.

Maxwell: Special interests shower $14 million on Florida legislators in one day

Members of the Florida Legislature collected a whopping $14 million worth of campaign donations from special interests in a single day – the day before their legislative session began.

Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues

A jury found that concert giant Live Nation and Ticketmaster had a harmful monopoly.

3 Central Florida restaurants shut down after health inspections

The Department of Business and Professional Regulation shut down three Central Florida restaurants for health code violations during the week from April 5-11.

Seminole bans cigarette smoking, vaping at parks and trails

But state law prevents local governments from instituting a ban on cigars.

‘You have to make sacrifices’: Central Floridians struggle with high costs

Many Central Floridians have struggled to pay for basic needs, like housing and transportation, since inflation spiked and now rising gas prices are stretching budgets even thinner.

BarkHaven hosts first dog-friendly music festival, ‘Barkchella’

Orlando’s BarkHaven dog park and bar is hosting its first official dog-friendly music festival, “Barkchella” on April 18. The event is family-friendly.