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PINE HILLS, Fla. — A suspect was taken into custody after an Orlando TV journalist and a 9-year-old were killed, and two others were shot in Pine Hills, Florida, Wednesday afternoon. According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, deputies received reports of two shootings around 4:05 p.m. Advertisement One of the shootings happened on Hialeah Street where deputies had been investigating a separate homicide earlier in the day. A woman in her 20s was shot and killed there at about 11 a.m. At that scene, deputies found the two Spectrum News 13 employees shot. One of them died and the...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County Health Director Dr. Raul Pino has been placed on administrative leave. Sources tell WFTV Pino was placed on paid administrative leave after he sent an email on Jan. 4 to Orange County Department of Health staff about employee COVID-19 vaccination rates. >>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<< READ: Orange County opening county-employee only COVID-19 testing site In it, he wrote, “I have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it…” He wrote that he had an analyst run vaccination data for employees, and that out...