Here off of U.S. Highway 441 in Lady Lake — next door to a senior living facility — Il Villaggio Senior Entertainment Center used nearly 200 slot machines to exploit seniors out of millions, running what officials describe as an illegal gambling operation.

The Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office (SAO) is set to hold a news conference on Wednesday on a case involving the murder of a Florida teen.

A grand jury has indicted the Lake County woman accused of luring Lake County deputies into an ambush that killed one deputy and injured two others.

A 2021 overdose death in Marion County has since led to a guilty verdict of first-degree murder for the man who sold the fatal dose of fentanyl to the victim, according to the local state attorney’s office.

The state attorney’s offices of Florida’s Ninth and Fifth judicial circuits will join forces in hopes to prevent and prosecute animal cruelty cases at a new level.

The state attorney representing Lake County is seeking the death penalty against a man indicted on child sexual battery charges, a first under Florida’s new law that allows that sentence for child rape cases.

Chad Anciaux, 36, had chased his girlfriend out of a hotel room and struck her nearly 20 times with a metal baseball bat, a release shows.

The woman accused of shooting and killing an Ocala mother of four last month entered a written not guilty plea.

The family of a mother of four shot and killed in Ocala earlier this month is calling out the state attorney’s office for deciding against pursuing a murder charge against the suspect.

A white woman accused of firing through her door and fatally shooting a Black mother in front of her 9-year-old son in central Florida has been formally charged with manslaughter and assault.

Formal charges have been filed against the woman accused of shooting and killing an Ocala mother.