Sanford

Counting 'em Down: For better or for worse, this is the Headline Surfer countdown of 2021's Top 100 biggest news stories of Central Florida along the tourism-driven stretch of Interstate 4 (Orlando Attractions and east to I-95 & the World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona).

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy announced t back in December that she would not seek re-election to a fourth term representing Florida’s Seventh Congressional District.

SANFORD, Fla. -- A 19-year-old driver who crashed into a Sanford gas pump after he was shot in the head died at the scene back in June and the homicide remains unsolved to this day, Sanford cops said.

SANFORD, Fla. -- Jeff Triplett, the former Sanford mayor who led the city through the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman crisis more than eight years ago, died of lung cancer on Feb. 27, 202, at the age of 52 - a shocking breaking news development considering few people even knew he had been sick.