Frank Stanfield

Imagine being able to walk out to your car in the morning and finding a cup of steaming coffee sitting by your car that had been delivered moments earlier by a drone from Walmart.

Wolf Branch Road, closed since October's record rainfall washed out streets and destroyed stormwater management systems, is projected to reopen by Friday evening or Saturday.

Citizens give city commissioners an earful about all kinds of things, but traffic tops the list – even if it is about congestion on county or state roads.

Julie Ann Sulpizio, charged with leading sheriff's deputies into a deadly ambush, is mentally competent to proceed to trial, according to Florida State Hospital.

There is a lot of traffic on north Donnelly Street these days – not from cars headed downtown but dump trucks and heavy equipment repairing the road that was washed out during a torrential downpour in October.

TAVARES – A circuit court judge Wednesday denied death row inmate James Duckett’s appeal to have an independent DNA lab analyze inconclusive results he hoped would exonerate in the 1987 rape and murder of a child. Duckett was a rookie Mascotte police officer on duty when Teresa McAbee was found floating in a lake. Until recently, he has resisted testing a semen stain found on her panties because the sample would be destroyed in the procedure. But with the clock ticking after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for March 31, testing went forward. The Florida Supreme Court issued […]

Despite objections from residents, Leesburg Commissioners voted 4-1 Monday to approved rezoning and annexation for a 502 single-family development on 202 acres off County Road 33.

Alarming calls were made to DCF seven years ago alleging abuse of Julie Sulpizio's daughters by her husband – foreshadowing the deadly ambush of sheriff's deputies in 2024 — but the agency cleared the call.

Editor's note: Frank Stanfield is the author of “Murder in the Graveyard, a Family Cult Tragedy, highlighting allegations of physical and mental abuse in the Ian Anselmo case.

Calling the case “extremely disturbing,” State Attorney Bill Gladson said Wednesday he is seeking the death penalty for a man charged with repeatedly raping and even filming the abuse over three years, starting when the victim was just 10 years old.