Ponce de Leon News Archives

Ponce de Leon Light Station is on Ponce de Leon Inlet in Florida, south of Daytona Beach.

The Turks and Caicos Islands is a self-governing overseas British territory. Turks and Caicos comprise a chain of 40 islands and cays sitting between the Bahamas and Cuba in the Caribbean, with Providenciales being the largest of the islands.

For more than 20 years, Butch told stories while he worked as a guide and photographer in the Everglades before moving to Suwannee County.

Editor's Note: This is the 15th part of an ongoing series, "America's Hidden Hispanic Heritage." To read previous columns in the series, go to http://www.MiguelPerez.com . When he discovered the huge landmass now known as the United States, Juan Ponce de Leon decided to call it Florida.

The Second Annual Tools for Schools campaign to gather school supplies for St. Johns County public schools was sponsored by Colonial Bank and the St.

When they take the time to read the writing carved on a marble wall in a particularly dark section of the San Juan Bautista Metropolitan Cathedral here, that's when visitors finally realize they are standing before the gravesite of one of the great Spanish conquistadors.

PONCE DE LEON A picnic in the park will be held Sept. 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to celebrate National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery month at Ponce de Leon Springs.

The afternoon sun illuminates amber glassware in one room on the fourth floor of the Lightner Museum Tuesday, August 25, 2009.

A Saturday evening accident claimed the life of a Ponce de Leon man. David A. Mulberry, who was 59, appeared to be unconscious when his 2006 Kia Sorrento left the roadway, struck a guide wire and then a tree, according to the Florida Highway Patrol media release.

The price of a single parking permit at the University of Miami is equivalent to almost an entire semestera s worth of textbooks and school materials.A Despite the fact that students pay an extremely high rate for the privilege of parking, they do not seem to be getting much in return.

PONCE DE LEON A Holmes County man has been arrested for aggravated battery after he accused an employee of stealing $30,000 and allegedly attacked him Monday with a baseball bat.

You tour the "colonial zone" and hear the names of the many amazing people who have lived here, at least for a while, on their way to discovering, exploring and settling the United States and the rest of the Americas.