Lake Panasoffkee News

The faces always appear as we are driving on I-75 near Lake Panasoffkee, about 50 miles north of Tampa.

A 27-year-old Bushnell man was kidnapped at gunpoint Friday and forced to drive more than 350 miles north to Cobb County, Ga., the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said Monday afternoon.

Five children were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries after a sports-utility vehicle slammed into their school bus this afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

In Tuesday's budget signing, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed 61 percent of projects identified as "turkeys" by a nonpartisan research group, including the only two projects from Lake County and the one from Sumter County that made the hit list.