Wildwood News

Seventy years ago, a place known as the Orange Home Tent Camp was built on 2,200 acres near Lake Deaton, about halfway between Leesburg and Wildwood in Sumter County.

Sawdust flutters around as the roofing is put together at the Habitat for Humanity house on Pleasantdale Drive in Wildwood on Thursday, February 2, 2012.

Take a look at Elizabeth Cook's photo on the Second Street Live! website. Don't let the sultry photo of her laying across a paisley bedspread fool you into believing she's a tart.

Over objections by a driver facing life in prison if convicted of shooting at Florida Highway Patrol troopers, a Sumter County judge Wednesday allowed a jailhouse letter to be read to the jury in which the defendant allegedly confessed to the crime.