Leesburg

Tinker Field revisited The Sports section recently published an article on the history of Tinker Field ("Tinker Field has seen glory days," March 31). I have special memories of that place. After No. 42, Jackie Robinson retired from Major League...

Leesburg interim City Manager Ray Sharp has halted construction of a fire-training center and demanded that Fire Chief Kevin Bowman explain why he withheld information that a nearly identical one was nearby and available for use for free. Good for...

LEESBURG – An 80-year-old Leesburg motorcyclist was killed in a crash on Emeralda Island Road Wednesday afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Everett Evans was driving his 2004 Suzuki motorcycle southbound on the road when he suddenly veered...

In June, Kaitlin will turn that magic age of 18. As the clock strikes midnight, she will become a grownup and get booted out of foster care to make her own way in the world. Never mind that she has two more years of high school before she can go to...

Eighth-grader Bayli Silberstein left Monday night's Lake County School Board meeting blinking back tears after board members voted 4-1 to table a final vote that could have allowed a proposed gay-straight club to form before the end of the school year....

MOUNT DORA — Taking a break from wielding a hammer, Bernie Ibrahim recalled that she had a semester left to get her degree when she decided to take a break from college and join AmeriCorps. "I was at a point where I wasn't happy studying," said...

Are you a small business owner or an entrepreneur who needs help writing a successful business plan? Then Lake County's Business Opportunity Centers may have just what you need. All three centers will host a seminar on composing business plans,...

Troubling new information that has surfaced since an April 7 column about Leesburg commissioners voting to spend $80,000 on a fire-training center suggests that the fire chief withheld information that there was already one in town that firefighters could...

Creeeeak! That's how it started. Just one little crack on the corner of the house in the concrete block. Larry King, who owns a property-appraisal business in Leesburg, noticed the first crack in his 30-year-old home about two years ago. Then more...

Writer Tim Dorsey likes to stir things up. In his Florida, folks are often shooting at each other while his anti-hero, Serge Storms, goes off on nutty tangents with his higher-than-a-kite sidekick, Coleman. Then the Tampa-based author introduces a few...

If a columnist writes about abortion, a response through the roof is guaranteed. But red-light cameras? Who knew you cared so much? It turns out that Lake County residents have passionate feelings about red-light cameras, those devices that take video...

With less than a week remaining before federal budget cuts could go into effect, federal agencies and parks, the military, hospitals, doctors, and Hagerstown Regional Airport, prepare for the ramifications if Congress fails to pass legislation to avoid it...