Florida News

Expanded horse racing may be in the cards
Ocala.com, FL - 17 hours ago
Currently, Florida law allows quarter horse tracks, and their card rooms, anywhere in any county that already allows pari-mutuel wagering, regardless of its ...

Moffitt finalizes divorce
Tampabay.com, FL - Apr 25, 2008
The two have agreed to share equal and rotating custody of their two young children, and Moffitt will maintain a residence in Sumter County . ...

Forum focuses on Sumter County
Villages Daily Sun, FL - Apr 25, 2008
By MATT DIXON, DAILY SUN THE VILLAGES — Four of the five Sumter County Commissioners spoke at the first of four “meet the candidates” forums sponsored by ...

Rare monkeys escape from Orlando-area wildlife facility into ...
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Apr 25, 2008
The monkeys had been sent from Puerto Rico to Sumter County's Florida International Teaching Zoo as part of a preservation effort. ...

Learn the best ways to manage your lawn
Tampabay.com, FL - Apr 24, 2008
By Times staff writer A free class, Maintaining Your Florida Lawn and Landscape, will be presented at 10 am Saturday at the Hernando County Cooperative ...

Stolen property worth $70K+ recovered
Macon County Times, TN - Apr 23, 2008
Still at large is suspect Kenneth Wayne Lollie, Sr., 53, who has Hernando County, Florida warrants outstanding for his arrest. According to Trousdale County ...

Florida EMS deploys wireless solution for mission-critical ...
MRT (subscription), IL - Apr 22, 2008
The Lake-Sumter (Fla.) Emergency Medical Services announced today that it has deployed Novatel Wireless’ Merlin PC720 modems and Junxion Box routers to ...

Lake County community notes
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Apr 22, 2008
Miss Teen Sumter County 2008 Raimey Pike, a tenth-grader at The Villages Charter High School, and a member of the Autism Society of America, will read. ...

County OKs mining permit
Villages Daily Sun, FL - Apr 9, 2008
By CURT HILLS, DAILY SUN BUSHNELL — Sumter County commissioners extended the life of Florida Crushed Stone’s St. Catherine mine with unanimous approval of ...

Florida waiting to get murder suspect Bill P. Marquardt
Chippewa Herald, WI - Apr 1, 2008
Gary Brannen of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office in Bushnell, Fla. Marquardt, 32, of Chippewa Falls, is one of four first-degree murder suspects awaiting ...