In Lake, Sumter and Marion counties, 1,279 parcels of land are registered with the county property appraiser's offices either as a church or under a "religious exemption."

Only 20 years ago, going on vacation required sorting through a jumble of atlases and paper maps just to get to the destination.

Caregivers sacrifice more than they let on.

The Election Day engine is firing up with less than a year to go, and campaigns are shifting into high gear.

The indigenous people who called America home before Europeans settled on the land still have a presence here.

Delores Lancaster wiped away a tear as she looked at the full trunk of food before her. The Leesburg resident was overwhelmed with relief by the thought that she would have more than enough food for the week.

Any aspiring athlete today can choose between two paths to potentially get a college scholarship or make millions tomorrow.

Confidence in travel increased dramatically this summer with the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, and pent-up desire for vacations became even more obvious.

Florida high school students will have a new class to take this fall. Each of them must complete CPR training to graduate, Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered 18 months after the Daily Sun called on him to do so. Florida now joins all but nine states in this requirement, a move the newspaper pushed for hard in its 18-month investigation into cardiac save rates and ongoing reporting on the issue. Experts say that every second counts in a cardiac event since a patient will typically lose brain function within four minutes. For every one minute delay in starting CPR, the chance of survival decr…