The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UCF-Lake County, funded by Lake County and residing in Lake County’s Business Opportunity Centers, again will offer an opportunity for entrepreneurs to learn how to start a business at a free seminar entitled, “Start-Up Basics.”

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating several burglaries in the areas of Leesburg, Fruitland Park and Lady Lake. In the past several weeks approximately 60 burglaries have been reported from Lady Lake through the Bassville Park area of Leesburg. Detectives believe several different groups are committing the crimes and some groups may be connected.

On Friday, May 10, 2013, Marion County Sheriff's Office detectives started looking for felony fugitive and criminal street gang members Mario Daniel McDonald and Joseph Wayne Edwards. Detectives found Facebook profiles featuring both McDonald and Edwards with photographs of each holding a shotgun.

National EMS Week provides an opportunity to honor the men and women who serve on the front line of pre-hospital emergency medical care—telecommunicators, paramedics and emergency medical technicians. “EMS: One Mission … One Team” is this year’s theme. As part of National EMS Week, the Lake County Board of County Commissioners will recognize the contribution of EMS professionals by issuing a proclamation which will be presented at the regular Board meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 21 in the Board Chambers of the Lake County Administration Building, 315 W. Main St., Tavares.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office responded to 24900 N.E. 133rd Street, Salt Springs on Wednesday regarding shots being fired. At the scene, the victim told deputies Stanley A. Kaniewski, 72, of Salt Springs fired shots with a handgun. The victim said Kaniewski was angry about a 16-year-old playing his music loudly. "He came out of his house and began yelling obscenities and threatening to kill him, if he did not turn the music down," the report reads.

Governor Rick Scott today announced Florida’s statewide unemployment rate for April 2013 was 7.2 percent, the lowest rate since September 2008. Down 0.3 percentage points from March’s rate of 7.5 percent, Florida’s unemployment rate continues to fall below the national average of 7.5 percent for April. Over the month, Florida added 16,700 private sectors jobs throughout the state.

Take Stock in Children held its annual graduation breakfast celebration on May 14 at Venetian Gardens in Leesburg to recognize 48 students that have completed the program and earned their college scholarship.

A study of public pools done during last summer’s swim season found that feces are frequently introduced into pool water by swimmers.  Through the study, released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers found germs in samples of pool filter water collected from public pools.