Howey in the Hills News

Want to learn to drive and save $645? Lake County school officials are offering scholarships to teens who want to take their new Behind the Wheel Driving course.

We asked you: Has the Casey Anthony case inspired the worst in the media and community? YES: 82% NO: 18% Worst in the Anthonys The Anthony case has inspired the worst in the Anthony family as well.

The Lake County School Board, in partnership with the Lake County Commission, is offering scholarships for Behind-the-Wheel Driving classes to eligible Lake County high-school students for the summer and fall.

Editorial excerpts by Publisher George Dupee were as follows: "The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council has great plans for the orderly development of Central Florida.

Family: I have a librarian husband, a daughter who lives in Dunedin, another daughter who lives in Lake Mills, Wis.

United States Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Roma/Miguel Aleman International Bridge, Roma, Texas, Sunday seized close to 27 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of close to $847,000. Officers working at the Roma/Miguel Aleman International Bridge came in contact with a male northbound traveler.

Customs officers arrested a Mexican national who was allegedly caught with about $847,000 worth of cocaine on Sunday.

Few local high schools still offer driver's education. The district and county teamed up in March to start a Behind-the-Wheel course for teens.

Electric bills will continue to rise for Progress Energy customers. Rising fuel prices, potential cap and trade legislation to curb carbon emissions and the construction of new power plants will all contribute to hikes in electric rates.

What? No doors on that bathroom? Joan Brown Benitez was at a neighbor's Howey-in-the-Hills home using the shower when several dogs entered the home through a doggie door and one of the dogs, an 18-month-old pit bull, attacked her.

Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida - Authorities say a Lake County woman was attacked by a pit bull while she was taking a shower.

Clerks around the state are encouraging the governor to veto the bill cutting clerks' budgets, but they held a conference call today to suggest a unified approach.

Police have arrested two people in connection with a Mount Dora bank robbery. Investigators say Thomas Banno robbed the Bank of America on CR 44B in Mount Dora Saturday.

Four of the Lake County school district's top administrators are being removed, and the district is advertising to replace them.

A New Hampshire man swam safely to shore after his ultralight aircraft crashed into Little Lake Harris this afternoon, just west of Astatula.

Dozens of people gathered outside the Eustis City Hall steps this afternoon to pray.

I am the spokesperson for a committee that represents more than 520 petitioners from Howey-in-the-Hills and Revels Road who are the vast majority of the taxpayers of our small town - and not just Lakeshore Boulevard homeowners.

Howey-in-the-Hills resident Rick Joyce, an attorney and former CEO of pencil company Dixon Ticonderoga, has founded Central Florida Mediators LLC to handle alternative dispute resolution.

A Lake County deputy won more than $30,000 on Wheel of Fortune last night. Howey-in-the-Hills resident Kim Holtzclaw, 34, said she got to fulfill a lifelong dream when she appeared a contestant on the show and won $30,501. "The whole experience was a chance of a lifetime," Holtzclaw said.

After years of watching the prize-loaded wheel go round and round on her favorite televised game show, a Lake County Sheriff's deputy is taking her own spin.