Lake County News

LARRY ELL Staff Writer EUSTIS -- Competitions can have many losers, but only one winner.

A Cocoa man died Friday night during a home invasion robbery, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.

A Lake County jury today declined to convict a reputed drug dealer on murder charges.

A Sorrento man shot and killed a man he said was trying to steal his property, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.

Space shuttle Atlantis is rocketing toward the space station. Atlantis blasted off Monday afternoon, carrying six astronauts and a full load of spare parts to the International Space Station.

A stray bullet this morning struck a customer at an Orange County Denny's restaurant, deputies said.

A body was found Thursday evening in a trash can in a city in east Volusia County, according to WESH.com. When officers responded to reports of gunfire near the 1200 block of Graham Avenue, they found a man's body in a trash can, the Web site reported.

The 33-year-old Lake Mary man, accused of raping a woman after offering to drive her home when she got stranded on Interstate 4 , has posted bond and been released from the Seminole County jail.

In a rush to help, police Officer John Hollowell steered his police cruiser around a curve on Thomas Road -- and his world suddenly went blank.

The Isleworth man who is accused of murdering his wife attended her funeral in Brevard County today.

South Lake County will see some changing of the guards, especially in Mascotte and Minneola, where the city's top people were up for election.

A television station is reporting that a 53-year-old Volusia County man has been arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl.

S omeone sent me a note the other day that, at first, made me laugh. It said Orange County was planning to spend an additional $50 million on its already mammoth convention center.

Two men arrested in the kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old as she headed to school are guilty on all charges, an Orange County jury decided this afternoon.

O range County may not be able to purchase more environmentally sensitive land - property now used to preserve wildlife corridors and watersheds for future generations - for years because of the county's budget crisis.

A trial began today in the Orange County case against two men accused of kidnapping and assaulting a 12-year-old earlier this year.

Somer Thompson's face, with chubby cheeks and thick brown bangs, still smiled from missing person posters plastered on almost every utility pole along the mile-long route from her elementary school to her home.

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

On the YouTube video-sharing Web site, Edward Muscare is known by his user name "Edarem," and his recordings show an older man lip syncing and singing songs such as Roy Orbison 's "Oh, Pretty Woman." Many of them have drawn hundreds of thousands of page views.

A 33-year-old woman accused of cutting the face of another woman during a fight two weeks ago with a box cutter will appear in court this afternoon for a bond hearing.