Leesburg News Archives

When darkness finally sets the proper mood, trick-or-treaters will embark upon tonight's sugar quest.

C.T. Hsu + Associates Inc. landed a contract last month to design a new 5,000-square-foot Yalaha Community Center in Lake County.

One thing that won't be missing in stores this week is candy. Happy Halloween ! Found Ruth says Zwieback is called crispbread.

A deadly motorcycle accident in Lake County has the Florida Highway Patrol investigating if any charges should be filed.

The flight that ended in the death of former Lake County School Board member Scott Strong began as a favor for an aviation buddy.

The recent arrest of Dr. Akram Ismail in Leesburg, Florida, for offering to pay for the demise of Nehme Gabriel, his former business partner had all the elements of a good Hollywood production.

A skeleton waits for visitors to the Thousand Palms RV Resort Haunted Forest in Rutland on Wednesday, Oct.

J ust about the time you think it's safe in Lake County, the moon gets full and the kooks crawl out.

The recent arrest of Dr. Akram Ismail in Leesburg, Florida for offering to pay for the demise of Nehme Gabriel, his former business partner had all the elements of a good Hollywood production.

Nancy Myers, co-owner of Grumbles House, noticed that customers wanted more organic products.

A Leesburg man, charged with multiple counts of possessing child pornography, poses a "clear threat" to children, according to a detective who arrested him Wednesday and found numerous sexual images of girls on the man's computer.

Author John Green is outraged that one of his titles became the center of a heated debate in Leesburg, Fla., when parents targeted a group of city library books that they considered too vulgar for young eyes.

More than 200 people packed the Tavares Civic Center Monday to ask U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, how the health care bill would affect their lives.

A Lake County woman was attacked Monday morning by a burglar who was armed with a knife.

Leesburg Police say they are investigating a stabbing at the Montclair Oaks Apartment Complex.

Southeast Fabricators, a company specializing in fabricated products for the alternative energy, military, telecommunications and aviation industries, has relocated its operations from Tavares to DeBary in Volusia County.

A 51-year-old doctor accused Thursday of trying to hire a hitman to maim and kill a former business partner will continue to be held without bail.

It wasn't really about ducks. The Rubber Ducky Race and Carnival, held last Saturday, was about something more important.

Angered by a failed business partnership, Leesburg doctor Akram Ismail set out to have his former partner maimed and killed, according to an affidavit released Thursday.

Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A-' to Leesburg, Florida's tax increment revenue bonds, series 2009.

A Leesburg man has been accused in a series of horrifying attacks. Investigators arrested 40-year-old Robert Smigel of Leesburg last week.

The city commission of Leesburg, Florida, has voted 4-1 to have the young adult literature section of Leesburg Public Library divided into physically separated age-appropriate groupings, creating a separate area for books targeted for high school students.

Robert Craig Smigel , 40, turned himself in on September 29, 2009 and was susequently arrested on a sexual battery charge.

A couple are battling to save their left legs after their motorcycle was struck in a Thursday night collision that threw the woman in Lake Griffin and the husband pinned to a guardrail.

A makeshift memorial sprang up on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, where 27-year-old Shawn L. Foster of Eustis was shot to death on McNamee Street across from John Johnson Park in Leesburg on Tuesday, Sept.

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