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Festival goers sliced zucchini into flower vases, grimacing faces and even a cowboy boot.

An unidentified person was found dead with a gunshot wound in the parking lot of a Lake City hotel Saturday morning, police reported.

Ronald Cave has been named interim director of the UF/IFAS' Indian River Research and Education Center.

Two area first responders were lauded Saturday at an annual firefighter appreciation picnic held at the Oaks Mall parking lot.

Chris Cano can remember the day his father brought home the family's first personal computer.

Spend some time around Izabella Neira and the 4-year-old is likely to walk up to you and reach out for some loving, which is a spectacular move.

Is it cheating to ask for directions?: A local geocacher will be at the Tower Road library at 10 a.m. to go over the basics of geocaching (hint: you use GPS to find hidden containers, hence the “caches.)

Nine students of the McIntosh Area School, an elementary public charter school on the grounds where the former McIntosh School once stood, are excited about the upcoming championship spelling bee on Tuesday.

The trailer of a truck driver who tried to evade a railroad crossing gate was struck by a train in Lake City Thursday afternoon.

A Newberry man died after crashing his car Thursday at noon, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.