Lake County News

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.

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.

The public's collective fear of snakes has spread since July, when a 2-year-old Sumter County girl was killed by her family's python.

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

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.

An elderly Orange County man is recovering this morning from a gunshot wound he received after his home was broken into overnight.

The arguing started before the doors opened. Backers of U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson launched into a loud defense of the razor-witted Orlando Democrat and host of Monday night's town-hall forum on health-care reform in right-leaning Lake County.

A bomb-sniffing dog was patrolling the grounds of the Tavares Civic Center this afternoon as this right-leaning community awaits U.S. Rep.

A family feud between a Eustis mother and her daughter -- both of whom were involved with the same man -- landed both women in the Lake County Jail on battery charges.

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.

Dr. Akram Ismail, who has an office in Lady Lake, is accused of hiring two people to physically injure and kill his former business partner.