The Council on American-Islamic Relations held a press conference at an International Drive hotel to demand a private investigation of last week’s deadly shooting of an Orlando man by an FBI agent. As has been widely reported, the FBI turned up at an apartment on Peregrine Drive in the early morning hours of May 22 to question Ibragim Todashev about his acquaintance with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Next week, “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history when he leaps out of a capsule 23 miles above Roswell, New Mexico wearing just a pressurized suit and helmet. But Baumgartner isn’t the first person to make a crazy jump like this. That distinction belongs to Joseph Kittinger, who made a series of high altitude jumps between 1959 and 1960.

Walt Disney once said, “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”. Well, my fine-mustachioed icon, it may have been fun, but sometimes it is simply impossible. The Disney theme parks had their fair share of true never-lands and rides—and here are 12 of them. In 1953, Roy O. Disney took a sales pitch to New York to raise money for this little land inspired by Gulliver's Travels.

If George Zimmerman had access to Tweet3PO Trayvon Martin may never have been shot. That's a pretty bold statement, but it's one that Dave Grobleski, an Orlando resident and one of the founders of Tweet3PO, a service that gives people access to calls made to the Orlando Police Department as they're being dispatched, stands by.

There is such a thing as a butler school. Learn what it takes to practice ninja-servantry in Central Florida.

Gray trees, bearded in Spanish moss, stand at attention before soft, glowing sunsets. Birds fly overhead, their reflections mirrored in the water below. This is the iconic imagery associated with the old Florida landscape. There’s nothing quite so scenic that can be seen from behind the bars of the Central Florida Reception Center, a prison located on the east side of Orlando.

There's a pony eating a panini in the café of the Rosen Plaza Hotel. She's not a real pony, of course – she's actually a 30-year-old court reporter from Greenville, N.C. Her name is Aimée Findlay, and while the rest of the people in the hotel café are sporting fanny packs and sunscreen, she's decked out in blue plastic pony ears, a rainbow mane made of streamers, furry leg warmers, fishnet stockings and baby-blue angel wings.

Near the playground set out front of the Global Outreach Center in Bithlo, a line is forming. People are patiently waiting their turn for the volunteers who staff the Full Tummy Project to help them out.