Wildwood News

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has cancelled a Missing Child Alert issued early this morning.

Six women were arrested this week in Sumter County during a first-time collaborative online prostitution sting across Central Florida.

Authorities in Sumter County issued a missing child alert for a 9-year-old girl on Tuesday.

Country honey, tomatoes, yellow squash, onions, red potatoes, cantaloupes, fresh fish, goat fudge and all sorts of fresh, local grown produce and arts and crafts have begun to make their way downtown every Saturday.

A disgraced ex-judge in Galveston serving time in a sex-abuse case has been moved to Florida over apparent security concerns.

Deputies took so many slot machines and computers they think were set up for online gambling from businesses around The Villages, they had to rent a storage shed to hold them all.

Falling down one after another, almost 40 suspected drug dealers have been arrested within the past week throughout Sumter County in what officers called "Operation Dominoes." The arrests were the result of a three-month investigation that was ignited with undercover drug buys and capped off with warrant sweeps, raids and the seizure of nearly 30 ...

Evenings in Navarre Park 6 to 8 p.m., at Navarre Park. Listen to the tunes of CSR - Coastal Rhythm Session, playing classic rock sponsored by the Gulf Coast Immediate Care Center, at the free, soundside concert.

Consumers looking for prize purchases in this slumping economy -- or philanthropists looking to donate -- might want to check out Habitat for Humanity's thrift store in Wildwood.

The mother of the 2 year old Sumter county girl found suffocated in her crib by a pet burmese python is in jail after turning herself in to the Wildwood police.

The mother of a 2-year-old Sumter County girl asphyxiated by a Burmese python and the woman's live-in boyfriend were charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death, officials said Monday.

WINTER HAVEN Emaciated bodies, tumors and heartworms are just a few of the problems that the Sheriff's Office says plagued some of the guard dogs confiscated from a Winter Haven woman in June.

This letter is in regard to the recent "reshuffling" of the Wildwood Middle School, due to an alleged shortfall of the budget.

The FHP says a van carrying 11 people crashed after a pickup truck sideswiped it.

While driving home Monday from Orlando, Inverness resident Robert Lentz made a routine stop at a BP gas station in Wildwood to fill his pickup truck.

Hernando Computer Club will present "Picasa a ' Import, Organize, Improve your Photos," part one of two, by Fred Wise in the South Room at 10 a.m.; and "Get comfortable with your PC" part two of two, by Joann Frucchione in the North Room at 1 p.m., both on Wednesday, May 13, at Grace Presbyterian Church located at 8375 Spring Hill Drive, Spring ...

A former Leesburg High School student was killed in an early morning car crash Monday, Wildwood police said.