Seminole County commissioners have approved using more than $7 million from a federal grant to purchase and redevelop foreclosed properties in struggling neighborhoods...
Federal Trust Corp. merges with Hartford Financial Services Group
Sanford-based Federal Trust Corp. is being bought by Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., a Fortune 500 company. The transaction is estimated to be valued at $10 million. Stockholders in Federa...
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A 24-year-old Sanford man was charged Monday with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and interfering with the custody of a minor after a 12-year-old was discovered driving a vehicle.
Sanford serial rapist sentenced to life
Jerry Lee Williams, a serial rapist linked to attacking six women in the past four years, was sentenced to life in prison after a hearing last week. Williams, 25, of Sanford, was known to choke h...
Arrest made in video-store clerk’s 2007 killing
One of two men accused of killing a Sanford video-store clerk last year surrendered this week after being indicted on charges of first-degree premeditated homicide and robbery with a firearm. Ben...
Sanford woman charged with DUI in fatality
Sanford police arrested a 36-year-old woman this week with DUI manslaughter after a pedestrian was hit by a car that left the scene of the accident. About 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, police responded t...
Sign Ordinance negotiations continue
During Monday’s city work session, the commission heard an update on the negotiations between City Manager Sherman Yehl and the Sanford Chamber of Commerce’s Sign Ordinance Task Force…
During Monday’s work session and meeting the commission discussed several key topics, including a new public safety complex and alternative traffic routes to the new Auto Train terminal...
Jeno and Lois Paulucci have arranged for 100,000 Michelina’s frozen dinners to be delivered to families through agencies in Sanford and Seminole County...
The city on Monday will demolish the first house that failed to be brought into compliance with requirements of the new Sanford Nuisance Abatement Group. The SNAG program, proposed about a year a...
A new Seminole County health clinic to counter the dramatic increase of sexually transmitted diseases was opened this week. In the past year there has been a 25 percent increase of early syphilis ...
Although most of Sanford has recovered from Tropical Storm Fay, part of Seminole Boulevard near Mellonville Avenue still remains closed due to water levels in Lake Monroe. Public Works Director T...