The longest tenured head coach in the area, Clay High softball coach Matt Lewis said Monday afternoon that this season was his last. The Blue Devils won back-to-back district championships, something Lewis said was important to him and the program. He ends his career with 551 wins and a state title.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in at the Florida Department of Transportation District 1 headquarters in Bartow on Thursday.

Officials say a Florida sheriff’s sergeant fatally shot a woman who lunged toward him with a shovel.

A Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend after he confessed to his mother and she called police.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says a teenager was “ambushed” and fatally shot in a central Florida park where he had apparently gone to “sell some marijuana” to someone.

High school softball season is in full swing and so are our News4Jax Super 6 rankings. They will be published every Wednesday during the regular season. Records are through April 6.

BARTOW, Fla. – A grand jury formally charged a 26-year-old man with three counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shootings of three friends who had gathered at a central Florida lake in July for some late night fishing. Prosecutors have 45 days to determine whether to seek the death penalty for Tony ``T.J.'' Wiggins Jr., following the grand jury’s findings late Tuesday, the Ledger reported. He said his brother accused Springfield, who was a mechanic, of taking his truck, reports said. He also told investigators he couldn’t find his son’s phone because it had fallen between the seats in the truck. Investigators said they found bullets at the home where Wiggins was living that matched the ones fired at the scene, arrest reports said.