Floral City News

A neighborly get-together reportedly exploded into an all-out brawl, leading to the arrest of an Inverness man and his sister early Sunday morning.

Not all sunken treasures are made of silver and gold. Combing the waters Wednesday at the mouth of the Weeki Wachee River in Bayport, local divers picked out small pieces of history that archeologists are working to preserve - bits of iron and other materials that could be remnants of a Civil War-era ship that burned more than 200 years ago.

Phyllis Lodder, of Floral City, makes her way up the Withlacoochee State Trail on a recent morning with her 10-year-old Pomeranian, Barney, in tow.

A Floral City man was arrested Monday afternoon on 140 counts of possession of child pornography and six counts of video voyeurism after the sheriff's office searched his home and found sexually explicit images of young girls.

It is a story 92-year-old Harrison D. "Dub" Miller doesn't tell very often - but others, including his wife Lottie, believe it's a story that deserves to be heard.

When Florence Langley steps up to the pulpit in front of the congregation at Mt.

Charming downtown Inverness will be transformed this weekend into an art lovers' paradise for the 38th annual Festival of the Arts.

It takes an artist to see beauty in a dilapidated old house, and it takes a history lover to fight to keep it from being razed.

A technicality has landed a Floral City man, who admitted to stomping on his wife's head during a marital fight, back in front of a circuit court judge for sentencing this coming Wednesday.

Jenny Rimmer has no illusions. She knows she's probably not what the organizers of the 28th Colgate Country Showdown are looking for.

County Transit officials have launched a new and improved fixed bus route between Beverly Hills, Lecanto and Inverness.

Judge Richard "Ric" Howard on Monday tentatively set two felony cases for trial at the beginning of next week.

A 35-year-old man accused of having sex with a young girl was extradited back to Citrus County last week after finally being located by law enforcement in South Carolina.

After a three-year ongoing investigation of child abuse, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office was able to arrest an Inverness woman this week when witnesses finally came forward with their allegations.

Trials set for next week were delayed Monday morning in Judge Richard "Ric" Howard's courtroom.

It has been a year since Mayor Mike Yakes lost his wife, Darlene, to cancer. That means it has been a year that he has been thinking about how to honor one of her last wishes.

A three-year drought brought local water levels several feet below normal. However, it seems rainy season is back and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, also known as Swiftmud, has decided to let the river waters finally flow into the local lake system.

On a recent Thursday, the Rev. Greg Kell sipped from his ever-present can of Diet Mountain Dew and offered an impromptu tour of Cornerstone Baptist Church's 20-acre Inverness campus.

More power to Floral City. A feeder line project that started last October is nearing completion, according to Suzanne Grant, spokeswoman for Progress Energy Florida.

There was a time in the late 19th century when Floral City claimed one of Florida's largest populations - larger even than Miami.