Dixie County, FL

The Class 1A region finals finished up on Friday night as four Gainesville-area squads paired up in two games to cut the remaining local field in half. From Mayo, the fourth-seeded Fort White Indians punched their ticket to the Final Four after edging out the third-seeded Lafayette Hornets 3-2 in Region 3-Class 1A final.

Dixie County coach Shannon Smith knew that if his team worked hard, stayed healthy and got some breaks, his Bears had the potential to be right where they wound up on Friday night – Class 1A Region 4 Finals champions. The Bears used a dominating performance on the mound...

DIXIE COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) - Dixie County officials are confirming a county employee was badly hurt on the job by a falling tree. They say a worker with the Dixie County Building and Zoning department was in his truck when a tree suddenly fell, crushing the vehicle. He suffered serious...

FORT MEADE — Fort Meade baseball won six district titles in a row advancing to the Class 1A, Region 4 quarterfinals last Thursday. But in the semifinals, there was just too much good pitching from Dixie County on Tuesday at Andrew McCutchen Field. Forte Meade went down 7-0 in the semifinal game largely due to all-county...

The Eustis softball team is a unanimous No. 1 with the regular season now complete. The defending 4A state champions, who are ranked No. 1 in Class 4A by MaxPreps and No. 25 overall in Florida, received all nine first-place votes and remained on top of the all-classification regional rankings.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) - Governor Ron DeSantis announced $20 million in grants to help communities across the state, including North Central Florida, mitigate flooding on Tuesday. He made the announcement of the funding for 98 projects at a news conference in Fort Myers Beach. ″We are a disaster-prone state, a...

For most of Tuesday’s Class 1A-District 7 softball semifinal between Chiefland and Dixie County, the game was up for grabs in Cross City. The No. 4 seed Indians, who lost at home to top seed Dixie County, 16-2, on April 22, were tied at 2-2 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning.

Defending 1A state champion Newberry has become known as a come-from-behind team as well as a team that never quiets. Tuesday afternoon in the District 7-1A baseball semifinal at Chiefland, the top-seeded Panthers were given all they could handle from No. 5 seed Williston. But survive and advance Newberry did...

CROSS CITY, Fla. (WCJB) - “I heard a pop pop pop pop pow and I didn’t really know what was going on”, Curtis Copeland lives in the area of NE 106 Street and NE 220th Ave and this is what he heard just before three o’clock in the morning.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Dixie County Sheriff’s Deputies are searching for a drive-by shooting suspect after two people were shot in Cross City. According to sheriff’s office officials, the two adult victims were taken to the hospital after they were found in the area of Northeast 106th Street and Northeast 220th Avenue with gunshot wounds.

At the end of last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his commitment to funding three projects in Dixie County as part of the General Appropriations Act, recently passed by the Florida Legislature. This funding will provide for the construction of two fire stations in Dixie County that will increase emergency...

A couple of weeks ago, Linda Haynes told CBS4 she needed help with flooding surrounding her house. "It's still wet, but there is no standing water," Haynes said. Somehow, a huge amount of water has since disappeared from her property. "I mean overnight, almost three days, and it was gone."

CROSS CITY, Fla. (WCTV) - As part of the General Appropriation Act that was recently passed by Florida Legislation, Governor Ron DeSantis is funding over 10,007,763 dollars to three projects in Dixie County for infrastructure improvement. The funding will be used to build two fire stations, which will improve emergency...

CROSS CITY, Fla. (CBS12) — Governor DeSantis spoke at a news conference in Dixie County on Friday. The news conference, held at the Dixie County Emergency Management in Cross City, was to announce infrastructure improvements in Dixie County. During the news conference, Governor DeSantis took the chance to blast...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday presented a giant ceremonial check to Dixie County officials as he made

DIXIE COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) - Governor Ron DeSantis visited north-central Florida today to announce infrastructure spending. He announced three multi-million dollar projects in Dixie County. Local leaders were sure how much money was coming to the area when this press conference was announced earlier this week. So they were shocked...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is scheduled to hold a press conference Friday in Dixie County.

Dixie County — Governor Ron Desantis came to Cross City late Friday afternoon with a check for more than $10 million. Governor Desantis says $2.7 million, in the new state budget, will go towards storm-water and flood mitigation projects. The rest of the money is to build two new fire stations.