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FOOTNOTE: Is Boomer boom for real?
Your correspondent believes demographics is destiny. An easy thing to believe in Florida.
Sarah Palin at The Villages, headed to Orlando tonight
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reacts to cheering fans as she arrives at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at Lake Sumter Landing at The Villages, Fla., Tuesday, Nov.
Bow-and-arrow dare results in injured duck
An act of cruelty left a female Mallard duck critically injured and a teenager facing serious charges.
As chief of the Sumter Native America Family Tribe, I want to clear a few things up and let the public know the truth.
The world of the disabled was a hidden place when a young social worker named John Askew came to the Florida Division of Mental Retardation in 1967.
Brooksville police: Officers didn't single out black minister after robbery
An investigation by the Brooksville Police Department has concluded that its officers responding to the armed robbery of a pizza store did not single out for harassment a black man who was inside when they arrived.
Murder suspect makes first court appearance
Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:02 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 1:21 p.m. OCALA - Zachary Snyder, who is accused of killing the Dunnellon woman who took care of him for several years so he wouldn't go into foster care, made his first appearance in front of Judge Steven Rogers on Tuesday morning.
Shot Husband Climbed Out Bathroom Window To Escape Wife
The Villages is supposed to be a quiet place where people go to retire, but Thursday night it was the scene of a shooting and a standoff.
Woman Who Shot Husband Denied Bond
We have new information in a shooting that happened at The Villages Community. The Sumter County Sheriff's Office was called to a home after a woman reportedly shot her husband.
Retired Bergen County detective shot by wife
A retired deputy chief of detectives for the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office is in stable condition after being shot twice by his wife in their Florida home, according to news reports.
One man arrested in home invasion robbery; accomplice sought
Published: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 9:19 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 9:20 p.m. Sheriff's detectives have arrested one of two men they allege barged into an Ocklawaha residence while wearing masks and carrying guns and robbed the occupants late Friday night.
Negotiator trades hug for The Villages suspect's gun
In the end, Denise Textor only wanted a hug. Her four-hour, armed standoff with Sumter County sheriff's deputies ended peacefully Thursday evening after negotiators agreed to let her walk out of her home on Bloomington Place in The Villages, where she had shot her husband in the shower, and into the embrace of a friend, said Sumter County sheriff's ...
Woman Allegedly Shoots Husband At Villages
Sumter County Officers say a woman shot her husband Thursday and is now holding them at bay.
Meek to gather petition signatures at Lake County church
Christine Show of our Lake County bureau just filed this report: WILDWOOD a ' U.S. Rep.
Woman ends standoff in The Villages
A friend helped end a 4 1/2-hour standoff by coaxing a woman suspected of shooting her husband out of their home tonight in The Villages retirement community, authorities said.
Police: Woman Shoots Man In Villages Home
Police confirmed Thursday evening that a man had been shot by a woman inside a home in The Villages and that she had barricaded herself inside.
Woman barricaded in home after shooting
Sumter County Sheriff's deputies are responding to a domestic dispute in The Villages.
Prostitution sting nets women in Wildwood
Six women were arrested this week in Sumter County during a first-time collaborative online prostitution sting across Central Florida.
Florida missing child alert canceled
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has cancelled a Missing Child Alert issued early this morning.
Missing Sumter Co. Girl Sought
Authorities in Sumter County issued a missing child alert for a 9-year-old girl on Tuesday.
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