Michael Williams

Rapid review of new scientific research | A typical, peer-reviewed journal takes at least a few months but often closer to a year to cycle submitted papers all the way to publication—and that's fine for most conditions. In 2020, we've seen scholarly research get a green light and a steady push from reviewers who are almost waiting by the phone. That means faster validation of vaccine experiments, for example, or studies of the efficacy of virus-killing UVC light.

More than 125 people who attended Texas church camp test positive for COVID-19

July 7, 2021 at 6:09 p.m.

DALLAS — More than 125 people who attended a camp hosted by a Galveston County church late last month have since tested positive for COVID-19, the church said. Clear Creek...

Florida woman stabbed her daughter, 11, to prevent her from having sex, cops say

August 22, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

A woman who stabbed her 11-year-old daughter more than a dozen times Sunday said it was because the girl smiled “different,” causing the mother to think her child was having...

Army veteran tried helping a stranded driver — a hitman who’d been hired to kill him, cops say

August 22, 2019 at 2:07 p.m.

When Carlos Cruz-Echevarria was found dead along the side of a Deltona road in November, Volusia County detectives believed he was a good Samaritan, randomly shot as he tried helping...

‘Stand your ground’ law needs changes, Orange County sheriff candidates say

December 13, 2018 at 12:57 a.m.

All three candidates running for Orange County sheriff are calling for changes to Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law, which is once again in the national spotlight after a deadly...

Police form a perimeter around the road leading to the Mandalay Hotel (background) after a gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 others when he opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 2, 2017.

Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock previously lived in Central Florida

May 31, 2019 at 7:55 a.m.

Eric Paddock helped his brother, Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, move from Central Florida to Nevada two years ago to feed his video-poker habit and get away from the state's...

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