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An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested early Saturday after he pulled a gun on a Lyft driver, the agency said. The driver told Orlando police that after dropping off Deputy Troy Heyer at his home, he was writing a report to Lyft when Heyer came out and pointed a gun at him, saying “what are you doing here,” an arrest affidavit said. The driver said he was in fear for his life and went to the intersection of Narcoossee Road and Lake Nona Club Drive where he called police. He took officers to Heyer’s home. Officers knocked on the...

Orange County has received a $20 million federal grant to expand its autonomous shuttle system at Lake Nona, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said Tuesday, part of a combined $62 million in transportation awards to three Florida cities. Chao was at Lake Nona, a southeast Orlando neighborhood, along with Gov. Ron DeSantis and state transportation secretary Kevin Thibault to reveal a combined $883 million in Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grants nationwide. Orange County was among just a handful out of more than 600 applications across the U.S. to get funding. The grant to the Orange’s Local...