Allen Cashe, arrested for murdering his girlfriend and one of her sons in 2017, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday morning for his crimes.

After a lifetime spent opening churches, coaching sports, teaching academics and inspiring the people of Sanford, Reverend Dr. R. W. Merthie passed away this week at the age of 67.

Merthie was beloved in the area and known as the pastor of the New Life Word Center in Sanford.

A 21-year-old Altamonte Springs woman was arrested this week after deputies said she tried numerous time to lure a 9-year-old girl into a vacant home telling her “it’s not like I’m going to take you or kidnap you.”

Guy Hughes, arrested in 2017 in the stabbing of Wolfy’s manager Larry Picardat, pled guilty to the charges on Jan. 10.

He faces decades in prison on the charges of burglary, attempted homicide and attempted robbery, along with fines paid to Picardat.

Developer Sean Kelley originally intended to build a new craft beer brewery where there was once an old train depot on 1st Street, but that plan has morphed into a “food collective” called Henry’s Depot, named after Henry B. Plant, who opened the railroad in the 1880s.

His own pharmacy

Altamonte Springs police had their hands full during a traffic stop Sunday when a man attempted to flee because of the amount of drugs in his vehicle.