Eustis News

A Eustis man and two teenagers were arrested after they tried to sell two bronze lion statues and a fountain painted to look like copper to a DeLand scrap yard, authorities said.

After being closed for 30 years, Macdonald Avenue in Eustis was reopened Friday, providing an alternative route and additional parking in the downtown area.

Royal Highlands resident Walter Hixenbaugh, 87, is thrilled that he'll finally get a chance to see the World War II Memorial during a whirlwind trip toWashington, D.C. That will be the highlight of Memorial Day weekend Honor Flight taking 25 WWII veterans on an all-expenses-paid trip to visit memorials and sites including Arlington National ... (more)

Margeaux Graham, 16, at St. Mary of the Lakes Catholic Church in Eustis on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Lloyd Thorne reviews his notes as he sits between Merrideth Humphries, left, and John O'Brien before a commission meeting in Eustis on Thursday May 17, 2012.

Nov. 5, 2011, is a day Sable Fulmore will never forget - the day the Eustis mom's 3-year-old was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor.

A Lake County jury today found the Florida Baptist Convention liable for a former pastor who sexually abused a 13-year-old boy in Eustis .

State Sen. Alan Hays hugs Marilyn Reynolds before a ceremony renaming County Road 44B between Mount Dora and Eustis after her son, Air Force Capt.

Blue Chip Energy Business Development Director Carlos Gonzalez, left, and Director of Corporate Marketing Lawrence Hefler, right, stand on the roof of their building on May 27, 20011.

More than six years after a 13-year-old boy was sexually abused by a Baptist preacher, a jury this week is hearing a case to determine whether the Florida Baptist Convention is liable for failing to find out about past allegations of sexual abuse against the minister.

A driving force behind Camp Boggy Creek in Eustis, which has served more 50,000 chronic and terminally-ill youth, died last week.

A man involved in a deadly car crash in March that killed a Tavares toddler recently was arrested on reckless driving and drug-possession charges, authorities reported.

A man who is accused of killing a 3-year-old in a March accident was arrested again on reckless driving charges Friday morning.

Mead, dean of students at Umatilla Middle School, sometimes hopped aboard the afternoon school bus and rode the long route to keep troubled kids in line - and therefore in class.

Eustis Assistant to the City Manager Richard Hoon, left, and field producer Garrett Caffacus discuss how to frame a shot of a sailboat on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, while taping a segment of "Today in America with Terry Bradshaw" in Eustis.

Richard Colvin, new executive director of the Lake Eustis Museum of Art, is pictured at the museum on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

More than a dozen members of the In Focus Photo Club will showcase their photography, which captures images of native and cultured plants in bloom.