Archive for the ‘Safety’ Category
Woman Raped in UCF Parking Garage
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UCF police sent out an alert Thursday evening alerting the campus community that a woman came to the police station about a week earlier to report she was raped in a UCF parking garage.
The alert was sent to students’ UCF Knights...
December 10th, 2010 | Crime, Health, News, Safety | Read More
DUI Check Point Near UCF Campus
KnightNews.com has learned there is a DUI checkpoint set up on campus, between Alafaya Trail and Gemini Boulevard.
The Orange County Safety Team, the group conducting the traffic enforcement check point, is comprised of 14 local law enforcement agencies, the Florida Highway, and the Department of Transportation.
In...
December 10th, 2010 | Crime, News, Safety | Read More
UCF Police Broke No Laws In Dr. Vest Traffic Stop, OPD Say
The UCF police officers accused by Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest, a mixed-race philosophy professor, of engaging in racial profiling when they pulled her over were cleared of criminal wrongdoing by Orlando police.
UCF officials announced that they invited Orlando police to conduct an independent review of...
December 9th, 2010 | Crime, News, Safety | Read More
UCF Professor to Teach One of a Kind HIV Class
15,000 people within Central Florida are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Sharon Douglass, 64, a professor at the University of Central Florida has had the life long goal to bring the number of individuals infected by the disease down to zero. To her it is all about spreading awareness...
December 5th, 2010 | Academics, News, Safety | Read More
Cholera Confirmed in Orange County, Fla. Department of Health Confirms
KnightNews.com received the following press release fro the Orange County Health Department on a cholera case in Orange County:
ORLANDO – The Orange County Health Department (OCHD) is announcing a laboratory-confirmed case of cholera in a female in Orange County who recently moved from Haiti. The...
November 29th, 2010 | Health, News, Safety | Read More
North Korea Attacks South Korea, World Watches and Waits
South Korea’s president is calling for “enormous retaliation” after a South Korean island came under attack by North Korean artillery Tuesday, sparking fires and prompting South Korea to scramble fighter jets and return fire to defend itself.
“The provocation this time can be...
November 23rd, 2010 | Beyond UCF, News, Politics, Safety | Read More
Car Fire Near UCF Gym
Check out some footage that was just sent to us by Joel Fernandez of a car on fire right outside the gym:
The fire was put out by fire rescue as KnightNews arrived on the scene.
We are still awaiting on more information as to how the car was set on fire. We will update the story as we get more information.
November 22nd, 2010 | News, Safety | Read More
Sterling Fire Turns Out to Be Prank
The Sterling Central Apartment complex, located on Alafaya Trail across from UCF, had its fire alarms sound at approximately 2 a.m. this morning, due to a supposed fire.
STUDENT WHO CALLED 9-1-1
Fire Rescue responded to a call claiming there was smoke coming out of the second floor’s hallway....
November 12th, 2010 | Beyond UCF, Housing, News, Safety | Read More
Fire at Tower 1
Students were evacuated from Tower 1 today, due to a fire started on the stove of a students kitchen.
KnightNews.com confirmed through Sgt. Williamson, the UCF Police Spokesperson, the fire was put out by the students with flour.
The fire department was called to the scene.
We’ll have more info...
November 9th, 2010 | News, Safety | Read More
Charlie Sheen Hospitalized: Actor Found Drunk, Naked in Hotel at 2 a.m., NY Post Reports
TMZ.com is reporting actor Charlie Sheen was hospitalized after suffering from some sort of medical emergency while the actor was in New York City.
Reports into TMZ indicate a 911 call was placed because Sheen was possibly intoxicated around 2:07 a.m and the actor was then taken to New York Hospital...
October 27th, 2010 | Culture, News, Safety | Read More
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