Umatilla News

Members of the Montverde Academy Key Club donated several boxes of children's books to the Lake County Health Department Women, Infants and Children program, which offers nutrition education, counseling, ...

By almost any measure, Denise Laratta cares about conserving water. The Royal Harbor resident follows the rules by irrigating her lawn twice a week -- and only if her grass needs it.

Lake County School Board members said they're not very happy about next year's lineup of principals and assistants, but they didn't have much choice.

Home Instead Senior Care, in partnership with the Leesburg Police Department and Lake County Sheriff's Office , is launching a program called Operation Medicine Cabinet aimed at educating the community to ...

Rolling Thunder Productions of Umatilla will provide its services for the inaugural Riverblast from noon to midnight July 4 and 5 at Swamphouse Riverfront Grill & Tiki Bar, at the west end of Highbanks Road off ...

This week, the Lake County Department of Public Safety, Fire Rescue Division, focuses on the safety and health of firefighters as part of an international campaign to reduce line-of-duty deaths within the ...

State Rep. Alan Hays can rest easy. But for this year's other candidates to represent Volusia and Flagler counties in the state Legislature, it's time to start knocking on doors and passing out campaign signs.

Deputies arrested a mother and son team who may be responsible for copper wire thefts in five counties -- including Volusia and Flagler, investigators said Friday.

It started late Thursday afternoon as a report of trespassers at the Volusia County Fairgrounds on S.R. 44 just east of DeLand.

Kasey Steele recognized Kasey Steele, who will be entering the eighth grade at Umatilla Middle School, was recognized recently by the United States Achievement Academy as a student of excellence in art.

A 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with rape after his girlfriend reported she walked in on him with a 9-year-old boy, police said.

Artist Barry Barnett believes that a spoonful of art can help the medicine go down.

CHESAPEAKE A Chesapeake woman has sued a Florida company over a shipment of 13 monkeys she claims were ill and not properly tested for diseases.

Ronnie C. King has graduated from One Station Unit Training at the Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.

A fundraising event is planned from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at Tinker's Tropical Treasures, 32225 N. County Road 437, Sorrento.

Cub Scout Pack 43 and Boy Scout Troop 43 of Tavares will have a flag retirement ceremony at 10:30 a.m. June 14 at Wooton Park in downtown Tavares.

The Astor County Library invites residents to meet author John W. Turner from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the library, 54905 Alco Road, Astor.

Carol Surmiak was named Lake Technical Center's Student of the Month for May. Surmiak, a Eustis resident, started as a vocational preparatory instruction student in February to raise her academic skills.

The Lake County Department of Environmental Utilities invites residents to participate in the 12th Annual St.

Until this week, Louis Ray Holley hadn't seen his only son for nearly 20 years. The elder Holley may have wished their reunion had been put off for 20 more.