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The manhunt continued Thursday for the shooter who killed a 22-year-old man at an apartment complex near the University of Central Florida on Wednesday. Colin Marcel Jackson was identified Thursday as the man found dead inside an apartment at Campus Crossing Alafaya about 6:30 p.m., officials said. "Witnesses reported seeing the victim and an unknown black male involved in an altercation prior to hearing the shots," said Lourdes Clayton, spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff 's Office. Jackson was not a UCF student and it's unclear if he lived in the apartment complex, officials said. An investigation into the shooting is ongoing. Jackson's criminal history includes a Dec. 30 arrest at same apartment complex on the following charges: aggravated assault with a firearm, armed burglary of dwelling with a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia and theft. According to one of the victims, who lived at Campus Crossing Alafaya , J...

The following story appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on October 26, 2006, the day after Danny Rolling was put to death. Also included are photos covering the period from the time of the murders to the day of Rolling execution . Rolling Executed By Chris Tisch, Tamara Lush and Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler Times Staff Writers STARKE – The drab brown curtain between killer and survivors opened at 5:59 p.m. Wednesday. Danny Rolling lay on a gurney. A prison official asked Florida 's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy if he had a last statement. Rolling responded with a twangy hymn, apparently self-penned. "He who flung the stars into heavens above, created the oceans, mountains, eagles and doves," he sang. "None greater than thee, Oh Lord, none greater than thee." Family members of his eight victims - five in Florida and three he was linked to in Louisiana - clutched each other, rolled their eyes or shook their heads. One family member later ...

Texas Tech made the "Cool School" list. Texas Tech University participated in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) 2017 self- reporting Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) survey regarding environmental sustainability on college campuses, earning a spot on this year’s Sierra Club’s “Cool School” list. Rankings for the list were compiled from raw data from the STARS self- reporting tool . This information was scored across 61 categories about different environmental impacts of a university like peer-to-peer sustainability, sustainability during orientation of new students and energy use by type. Carey Hewett, campus sustainability officer and managing director for Services in the Operations Division, said participation in the STARS sustainability survey is important because it allows Texas Tech to highlight the many efforts being accomplished around campus.  Carey Hewett “Texas Tech will continue to m...

Contemporary design for Americana... REDDING, Calif. - Plans to renovate the Americana Lodge in downtown Redding and replace it with modern multi-family apartments are underway. The architect and neighboring businesses hope this will help change the face of downtown. The plan is to keep the overall structure, but restore it. Broken and boarded up windows are what's left of the Americana Lodge on Pine Street since it was shut down in January. Redding Architect Ryan Russell is working with the Hignell Companies to take on the project. "We plan to call it The Lofts, and really reinvent what the space currently is and create a desirable apartment complex , essentially, that will house and bring positive influence to downtown," Russell said. It will be geared towards student housing. Co- Owner Denise Craig of Boardmart Snow Surf & Skate is next to the Americana, and said she's noticed less loitering since the hotel was closed. "The clientele in the last fiv...

Business Details Coupons Gallery Reviews Sponsored Links Wolf Creek is dedicated to providing the very best furnished student housing off campus in Raleigh! Reasonable rent, great amenities! Hours Regular Hours Mon - Fri 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Sat 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sun 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Services/ProductsWolf Creek Apartments are located off-campus near North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina . Our community offers all inclusive living at a great value, a convenient location, and most importantly, fun! More than just a typical college dormitory experience , Wolf Creek offers housing that provides the ideal educational apartment environment At Wolf Creek, our residents enjoy a 24 hour recreation room , 24 hour fitness center , 24 hour computer lab , 2 basketball courts, 2 tennis courts, 5 tanning beds, 2 sand volleyball courts , an Olympic size lap pool and a resort- style swimming pool . And every apartment has high-speed Internet and cable. NCSU, Meredith, Wake Te...

Park Square Enterprises  will announce a national fitness center anchor tenant this week that has been the catalyst for a complete re-envisioning of its plans for Park Square Plaza near UCF. When Park Square Homes CEO Suresh Gupta purchased the 12.5-acre site on the 12000 block East Colonial Dr . in 2016, he planned to develop retail  along the highway frontage and pursue rezoning for multifamily use. The college campus has attracted several multifamily developments recently, including the Core Spaces student housing development  and a second complex by Catalyst Development Partners that will mirror its  popular EOS Apartments .  Park Square had initially planned to seek rezoning for a 250- unit apartment complex .  Ali Mushtaq, senior adviser for SVN, told GrowthSpotter on Monday the developers were approached by a national gym tenant with a strong interest in locating there. The Guptas scrapped the apartments and filed a new retail- focused site plan last week with the St. ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A man struck and killed last Friday at the intersection of North Alafaya Trail and Econ River Place , near the University of Central Florida may have been hit by several vehicles. Troopers initially reported that Austin Ekern, 20, was struck by a pickup driven by Lawrence Wood, 66, of Orlando. Wood stopped, along with one of Ekern's former classmates, to render aid. Advertisement Troopers said a surveillance video from Riverwind at Alafaya Trail, an apartment complex, shows a dark sedan and a white van zoom by Ekhern less than a minute earlier as he stands in the traffic lane. Troopers said one or both vehicles may have struck him. The dark vehicle's driver stopped and spoke with troopers after the student was struck, but is looking to reinterview him. The white van's driver did not stop, but if the vehicle did not make contact with Ekern, no crime was committed. On her Facebook page, Ekern's mother, UCF vice president Sharon Ekern , posted: ...

OVIEDO, Fla. - New video was released Wednesday in connection with a crash near the University of Central Florida in which a student was killed. Austin Ekern, 20, who attended Florida State University and was the son of a longtime UCF staff member , was run over and killed Friday on Alafaya Trail near McCulloch Road. "I have a 20-year-old son who is in the prime of his life and it was taken in an instant," Brent Ekern, Austin's father, told News 6. The video, obtained from a nearby apartment complex , shows a white van and black car traveling through the area, and the Florida Highway Patrol said it believes the black car struck Austin Ekern and knocked him down onto Alafaya Trail.  Troopers said that up to a minute later a pickup truck ran over Austin Ekern, killing him. The driver of the pickup stopped and told authorities that he had not seen Austin Ekern in the road. The FHP said the driver of the black car also stayed at the scene and was questioned by authoriti...

CLOSE The Americana Lodge in downtown Redding , California, closed in January after hundreds of alleged code and safety violations , and now The Hignell Companies hopes to repurpose the building. Wochit Architectural renderings of the proposed remodeling project to turn the closed Americana Lodge into The Lofts. (Photo: Russell Studio) Plans to convert the shuttered Americana Lodge in downtown Redding to apartments come before the city Wednesday afternoon . The project has been hailed as a catalyst for the area since The Hignell Companies of Chico announced it was purchasing the former motel late last year. Hignell would transform the property between Pine and Market streets into 24 one-bedroom and 20 studio apartment units that would average between 400 and 500 square feet of floor space. At least four of the apartments would be set aside for very-low and low-income renters. The Redding Board of Administrative Review will consider Hignell’s site development permit application ...

OREM -- The No. 1 amenity advertised at the Ventana Apartments near Utah Valley University is free high-speed Internet. That isn't because of Google Fiber, UTOPIA/Macquarie, Comcast or any other well-known Internet provider. It is because of a new company, Vicidiem, and its patent-pending product, the Layer Exempt Aggregation Device , or LEAD. Vicidiem, which means " conquer tomorrow today ," has done just that with a device that can change the way bandwidth is managed within metro-Ethernet networks.  More clearly put by Joe Brown, a local Vicidiem representative , "We provide end-to- end multimedia services . In these instances they act as an ISP. We turn up Internet and manage the network. We can also turn up video and phone services if the owner desires." In other words, individuals can decide how much high-speed bandwidth they will need at any given time, request that speed and, when they are done, the faster speed goes back to a technology pot or cloud. ...