Lake County News Archives

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.

A road-rage incident early today in north Volusia County resulted in gunfire with the delivery driver's window shattered by a bullet.

Two people were killed and another shot and tortured this morning in a home invasion in Poinciana, near the Osceola-Polk County line, Central Florida News 13 reports.

From left, Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission President Ray Gilley, Lake-Sumter Community College President Dr.

Officials say a man's face was doused with gasoline and his body set on fire after a fight over beer, money and cigarettes Saturday afternoon.

Two years ago, something horrible happened to Tangela Key's two sons. Her then 13-year-old son A- who she ordered to baby sit his three siblings -- beat her 8-year-old son to death because he had eaten a dessert he wasn't supposed to and picked at a scab until it bled.

Police this morning identified 27-year-old Shawn L. Foster as the man shot to death in a Leesburg parking lot overnight.