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VILLAGES-NEWS Live Square Entertainment for Saturday, June 13 VILLAGES-NEWS Villagers rattled by yet another sinkhole in their villa community VILLAGES-NEWS Bewildered sandhill cranes wander neighborhood after loss of their nests VILLAGES-NEWS Fire-damaged home in The Villages to be sold at auction VILLAGES-NEWS New Yorker in trouble over location of bushes at her home in The Villages LEESBURG-NEWS Jailed man allegedly exposes himself to fellow inmate and attempts to force his clothes off LEESBURG-NEWS Two women busted for allegedly stealing food and Disney pants from Walmart LEESBURG-NEWS Smoke shop customer allegedly shoves employee when denied refund on vape LEESBURG-NEWS Beautiful male cardinal enjoys a berry LEESBURG-NEWS Faulty headlight leads to arrest of suspect with meth and drug paraphernalia BBC Rugby star Sinfield and authors Blackman and Donaldson lead honours list NYTIMES Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump’s Name From Facade VILLAGES-NEWS Live Square Entertainment for Saturday, June 13 VILLAGES-NEWS Villagers rattled by yet another sinkhole in their villa community VILLAGES-NEWS Bewildered sandhill cranes wander neighborhood after loss of their nests VILLAGES-NEWS Fire-damaged home in The Villages to be sold at auction VILLAGES-NEWS New Yorker in trouble over location of bushes at her home in The Villages LEESBURG-NEWS Jailed man allegedly exposes himself to fellow inmate and attempts to force his clothes off LEESBURG-NEWS Two women busted for allegedly stealing food and Disney pants from Walmart LEESBURG-NEWS Smoke shop customer allegedly shoves employee when denied refund on vape LEESBURG-NEWS Beautiful male cardinal enjoys a berry LEESBURG-NEWS Faulty headlight leads to arrest of suspect with meth and drug paraphernalia BBC Rugby star Sinfield and authors Blackman and Donaldson lead honours list NYTIMES Kennedy Center Begins Removing Trump’s Name From Facade

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FOX NEWS Woman airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after shark attack at popular Sydney beach FOX NEWS Woman airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after shark attack at popular Sydney beach BBC Authors Blackman and Donaldson made dames in honours list LIVESCIENCE Has all the water on Earth been peed before? FOX NEWS WATCH: House Dems blame racism, 'all-White' jury for Karmelo Anthony's guilty verdict BBC Teen plans to leave uni 'debt free' after making £35,000 selling vintage football shirts TECHCRUNCH Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living FOX NEWS Christian Pulisic subbed out at halftime of USMNT World Cup opener after feeling tightness in calf VILLAGES-NEWS Live Square Entertainment for Saturday, June 13 VILLAGES-NEWS Villagers rattled by yet another sinkhole in their villa community VILLAGES-NEWS Bewildered sandhill cranes wander neighborhood after loss of their nests FOX NEWS Woman airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after shark attack at popular Sydney beach FOX NEWS Woman airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after shark attack at popular Sydney beach BBC Authors Blackman and Donaldson made dames in honours list LIVESCIENCE Has all the water on Earth been peed before? FOX NEWS WATCH: House Dems blame racism, 'all-White' jury for Karmelo Anthony's guilty verdict BBC Teen plans to leave uni 'debt free' after making £35,000 selling vintage football shirts TECHCRUNCH Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living FOX NEWS Christian Pulisic subbed out at halftime of USMNT World Cup opener after feeling tightness in calf VILLAGES-NEWS Live Square Entertainment for Saturday, June 13 VILLAGES-NEWS Villagers rattled by yet another sinkhole in their villa community VILLAGES-NEWS Bewildered sandhill cranes wander neighborhood after loss of their nests

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Villages-News 12 hours ago

Live Square Entertainment for Saturday, June 13

Nightly entertainment performing in The Villages Town Squares on June 13, 2026 Read more: Live Square Entertainment for Saturday, June 13

Villages-News 14 hours ago

Villagers rattled by yet another sinkhole in their villa community

A fresh sinkhole has opened up in the Cameron Villas, putting residents on edge and prompting a massive emergency repair bill. Read more: Villagers rattled by yet another sinkhole in...

Villages-News 14 hours ago

Bewildered sandhill cranes wander neighborhood after loss of their nests

Bewildered sandhill cranes are wandering a neighborhood following the destruction of their nests in a damaging mowing incident in The Villages. Read more: Bewildered sandhill cranes wander neighborhood after loss...

Villages-News 15 hours ago

Fire-damaged home in The Villages to be sold at auction

A fire-damaged home in The Villages is set to be sold at auction as the result of a foreclosure. Read more: Fire-damaged home in The Villages to be sold at...

Villages-News 15 hours ago

New Yorker in trouble over location of bushes at her home in The Villages

A New Yorker is in trouble over the location of bushes at her home in The Villages. Read more: New Yorker in trouble over location of bushes at her home...

Woman airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after shark attack at popular Sydney beach

A 30-year-old woman suffered serious injuries to her arm and leg after a shark attack at Sydney's Coogee Beach, the latest in a string of incidents.

BBC 4 hours ago

Rugby star Sinfield and authors Blackman and Donaldson lead honours list

Noughts & Crosses author Malorie Blackman and Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson are made dames, as the rugby league star is knighted.

Fox News 4 hours ago

Elon Musk sent Gad Saad a cryptic late night text that led to a secret canyon rendezvous

Gad Saad describes a secretive late-night meeting with Elon Musk in Austin, Texas, involving security checkpoints that made him feel like James Bond.

BBC 5 hours ago

Linkin Park to make history at UK's biggest rock festival

Linkin Park will make history as the first female-fronted band to headline Download Festival.

BBC 5 hours ago

Healey wanted UK to join global defence bank, BBC told

Allies of the former defence secretary claim the Treasury tried to shut down the idea.

World

Fox News 4 hours ago

Woman airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after shark attack at popular Sydney beach

A 30-year-old woman suffered serious injuries to her arm and leg after a shark attack at Sydney's Coogee Beach, the latest in a string of incidents.

BBC 7 hours ago

The costs and challenges facing the 2026 World Cup

The World Cup officially kicked off this week - but alongside the football, there are questions around heat, cost, the environmental impact and travel restrictions.

BBC 8 hours ago

Married at First Sight Australia stars not told partners had drug and violence convictions

Stars of the hit TV show say they did not know their on-screen husbands had previous convictions.

BBC 9 hours ago

US kills leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang in airstrike, Trump says

Niño Guerrero was killed in a "swift and lethal kinetic strike," the US President wrote in a social media post.

BBC 9 hours ago

Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, released publicly this week, sparked concerns about cybersecurity and hacking.

Politics

Fox News 5 hours ago

WATCH: House Dems blame racism, 'all-White' jury for Karmelo Anthony's guilty verdict

House Democrats claim the Karmelo Anthony guilty verdict highlights racism in the criminal justice system, citing concerns about jury selection and race.

BBC 7 hours ago

Chris Mason: Starmer defiant after defence spending row

The prime minister was keen in a BBC interview to erect the highest bar he could to any wannabe successors triggering a leadership contest.

Fox News 12 hours ago

Trump says US military eliminated 'infamous' Tren de Aragua leader in lethal strike

President Donald Trump announced a U.S. military strike that killed Tren de Aragua leader Niño Guerrero, calling it retribution for victims of violent crime.

Fox News 15 hours ago

California Dems accused of putting sanctuary law over migrant child welfare checks: 'Real children'

El Cajon sues California AG Rob Bonta, claiming sanctuary laws prevent local police from checking on unaccompanied migrant children's safety.

Fox News 16 hours ago

Trump's name to be removed from Kennedy Center as appeals court denies board's request for administrative stay

The Kennedy Center board filed an emergency appeal to block a judge's order requiring Trump's name to be removed from the building's signage and materials.

Tech & AI

TechCrunch 9 hours ago

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.

TechCrunch 11 hours ago

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,"...

TechCrunch 14 hours ago

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to...

TechCrunch 14 hours ago

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

TechCrunch 17 hours ago

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

Science

Livescience 4 hours ago

Has all the water on Earth been peed before?

Water, water, everywhere … has all of it been peed out at least once?

BBC 7 hours ago

Zoo celebrates birth of second pair of Sengi pups

It says Nuru and Mela are proving to be "exceptional parents".

BBC 14 hours ago

Elon Musk's stratospheric rise to trillionaire status - in charts

The BBC breaks down how the tech mogul's fortune has grown.

Livescience 20 hours ago

World's rarest great ape decimated by 4 days of extreme rain, with 7% of population lost to cyclone

Around 58 of Indonesia's Tapanuli orangutans were crushed or buried alive by landslides brought on by the climate-change-fueled Cyclone Senyar.

Livescience 21 hours ago

'I was really amazed': On the edge of the Milky Way, a dwarf galaxy is being ripped in half by its big sibling

A new study shows that the Small Magellanic Cloud is being pulled apart by its larger sibling on the Milky Way's periphery, upending our understanding of our cosmic neighbor.

Sports

Fox News 9 hours ago

Christian Pulisic subbed out at halftime of USMNT World Cup opener after feeling tightness in calf

Christian Pulisic was subbed out at halftime during the USMNT's World Cup opener against Paraguay with no official reason initially given for the change.

Fox News 10 hours ago

US earns historic win in World Cup opener after beatdown of Paraguay as the legend of Folarin Balogun is born

Folarin Balogun becomes the first American player since 1930 to score multiple goals in a World Cup game as Team USA beats Paraguay 4-1 at home.

Fox News 12 hours ago

USMNT World Cup starts strong, Christian Pulisic sets up Team USA for a stunning first goal against Paraguay

The USMNT kicked off their World Cup bid against Paraguay in Los Angeles, taking an early lead through a Damián Bobadilla own goal in under 10 minutes.

Fox News 16 hours ago

Victor Wembanyama confident in Spurs comeback despite Game 4 collapse: 'Everybody knows we're going to do it'

Victor Wembanyama said the San Antonio Spurs know they will complete a comeback after trailing New York Knicks 3-1 in the NBA Finals following a historic Game 4 collapse.

Fox News 16 hours ago

Seven-time NBA champion Robert Horry wants the World Cup to be a great unifier for the world

Seven-time NBA champion Robert Horry said he hopes the 2026 World Cup brings countries together and unites people through sports during the tournament.

Entertainment

BBC 4 hours ago

Authors Blackman and Donaldson made dames in honours list

Noughts & Crosses author Malorie Blackman and Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson are made dames, as the rugby league star is knighted.

BBC 5 hours ago

Linkin Park to make Download Festival history

Linkin Park will make history as the first female-fronted band to headline Download Festival.

BBC 8 hours ago

Married at First Sight Australia stars not told partners had drug and violence convictions

Stars of the hit TV show say they did not know their on-screen husbands had previous convictions.

BBC 10 hours ago

Warner Bros $111bn sale to Paramount approved by US justice department

The approval marks a key development in the merger that will reshape media, allowing the continue of the takeover of the Hollywood studio, which owns CNN and HBO.

BBC 11 hours ago

Harry Styles revisits X Factor as he kicks off Wembley residency

The pop star reminisces about his X Factor audition, which took place near Wembley Stadium in 2010.

Business

BBC 7 hours ago

Teen plans to leave uni 'debt free' after making £35,000 selling vintage football shirts

Eleri Williams started out selling her dad's old football shirts and has just opened her own shop.

BBC 15 hours ago

Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut

Musk is now worth $1.11tn according to the Bloomberg rich list, while SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn.

BBC 17 hours ago

UK vows to phase out Russian diesel and jet fuel imports by new year

The ban forms part of the government's package of sanctions on Moscow due to the ongoing war with Ukraine.

BBC 1 day ago

Have you been mis-sold car finance?

Martin Lewis has advice for those who have or who are planning to put in a car finance mis-selling claim.

BBC 1 day ago

Have you been mis-sold car finance?

Martin Lewis has advice for those who have or who are planning to put in a car finance mis-selling claim.

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wpadmin Silver 2 days, 15 hours ago

🎉 Welcome to the new Town Square!

The Community Board just got a top-to-bottom rebuild — this is Middleton's place to talk. News tips, questions, garage-sale finds, restaurant intel, lost pets, front-porch conversation: post it here.

New around here? The Town Hall sidebar has the anonymous tip line, the live scanner feed, and upcoming events. Hit the composer above and say hello — your neighbors are listening. 👋

wpadmin Silver

2 weeks, 3 days ago

New Around Town:
Crooked Can Brewing Company has a Minneola location listed as coming soon at 1600 Crooked Can Loop.
If you know the Winter Garden Crooked Can, this looks like the bigger destination version: brewery, taproom, food hall-style options, outdoor space, live entertainment, and family-friendly amenities like a splash …

wpadmin Silver

2 weeks, 4 days ago

New Around Town: Restaurants, services, openings, construction updates, local recommendations, and businesses neighbors keep asking about. If there is a place or service Middleton should know, this is the thread. Check the directory: https://www.hellomiddleton.com/business-directory/

wpadmin Silver

2 weeks, 4 days ago

This Weekend Around Middleton: The traffic says people are hunting for what to do next, so this is the new hub pin: weekend events, family stuff, live music, markets, school/community happenings, and anything neighbors should know before Saturday. Browse events: https://www.hellomiddleton.com/events/

wpadmin Silver

2 months, 1 week ago

Middleton Rocks
is LIVE! A neighborhood treasure hunt where you paint rocks, hide them around Middleton, and track their journey as neighbors find them.

How it works:
1. Paint
a rock with any design you like -- get creative with colors, patterns, or inspirational messages. Use acrylic paint and seal …