Lake County florida

A truck from Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida will be there with bags of veggies, meat and other food for 1,000 families. The first 500 get a frozen turkey.

Animal services director Whitney Boylston said it all started a week ago when a family brought the sick kittens in for treatment.

Lake County opened its early voting locations Thursday, and WMFE's Joe Byrnes stopped by The Venetian Center -- the Leesburg location -- to talk with voters about what drove them to the polls ahead of the Aug. 23rd primary.

County Commission Chairman Sean Parks says the Ukrainian national anthem will be played and several people will speak.

Family members hugged and sobbed with relief after the hearing.

A judge in Lake County will hold a hearing today on whether to posthumously clear the names of the Groveland Four.The young Black men were wrongly…

"The reason that I'm so fired up about this," Alan Hays says, "is because it's disgraceful that the American voters are being abused this way."

In recent years the Legislature issued an apology and the governor pardoned the men posthumously.

It was one of 120 Rosenwald schools in Florida and thousands across the segregated South built to educate Black children.

Three hundred ninety-four names have been added to the memorial, including 295 who died last year. Among those, 62 percent were killed by COVID-19.