Orange Lake News

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 11:32 p.m. The county's proposed airboat curfew revved ahead after a nearly three-hour debate Tuesday evening, but the curfew still may stall out when it comes back to the County Commission for a final vote.

A debate over restricting air boats is still making noise. .. but not a lot was accomplished at Tuesday's Alachua County commission meeting.

Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:25 p.m. Alachua County commissioners will likely decide tonight whether to move forward with a planned airboat curfew.

Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. Terrance Jamerson says he will never forget what happened on Aug.

C entral Florida's most fought-over environmental issue this decade - building an expressway across the Wekiva River - appeared Thursday to be at the brink of a major battle that could scuttle plans for the road.

Published: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, September 7, 2009 at 6:02 p.m. The two largest known pollution sources creating problems for Orange Lake have been identified by Florida scientists working to clean up a series of lakes and creeks in Alachua and Marion counties.

As a group of burglary suspects crisscrossed Florida in recent months, following them was a special Osceola County sheriff's squad given authority to watch crimes without making immediate arrests.

A 'person of interest' in this weekend's deadly home invasion in Orange Lake has turned himself in to authorities.

A man was shot to death and his brother seriously injured late Saturday when they surprised two home invaders that had been holding two of their relatives at gunpoint.

Former NFL player Rogers Beckett fondly remembers helping to build his mother's first home in Apopka.

About 100 people gathered Sunday at the Cedar Key Cemetery to honor fallen soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard during the annual Memorial Day Ceremony.

A 15-month investigation into the theft of 11 automated teller machines and $1million ended in an arrest of a South Florida man on the run in South Carolina, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said this week.

Nasedra Kewon Lumpkin, 33, of Pahokee has been arrested for the theft of 11 Automated Teller Machines in nine Florida counties.

Central Floridians can expect sunny days and cloudy nights today and Friday. The dry spell still poses a fire danger for areas of dry vegetation, forecasters at the National Weather Service in Melbourne said.

I've owned a copy of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic work, "Cross Creek Cookery," for a few years now, and I've always thought it would make a marvelous event to recreate a meal from the pages of her glorious book and invite everyone you know to sample the foods she ate on the very site where she prepared them in St.

Since he retired back last year he spends most of his time boating on the waters of D... - read on... [Mar 25th 2009] By Dan Breitwieser, TV 20 NewsMarion County detectives credit an anonymous tip leading to the break in the case.Deputies say 15 hot tubs packaged on a tractor trailer were stolen Sunday morning from the Petro truck stop in Orange ...