Sumter County

Residents say the Florida Department of Transportation should widen Interstate 75 instead of creating a new toll road from Wildwood to U.S. 19 with all its impacts on the environment and rural communities.

One resident said the Florida Department of Transportation is "making a billion dollars" off the purchase of land in the community, "and they don’t give us chump change.”

Prosecutors accused the commissioners of lying under oath during a criminal investigation into complaints that they had communicated about county business outside of public meetings.