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ORLANDO, Fla. – A federal grand jury has handed up an indictment charging 54-year-old Robert Lee Craddock of Port Orange with wire fraud arising out of a scheme to defraud the compensation fund established as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

If convicted, Craddock, who also may have a residence in Daytona Beach Shores, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Craddock that the Office of US Attorney A Lee Bentley, III, is seeking a money judgment in the amount of $135,153, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.

According to the indictment, following the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was being leased by BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, Craddock submitted a claim to BP and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, an independent facility established by BP to compensate qualified claimants, for lost earnings purportedly related to the impact of the oil spill on his businesses.

ESSEX, Vt.— We could inquire as to what Barack Obama’s presidency communicates in these years of brutal disappointment, and waning American entheos.

BUNNELL, Fla. – A Palm Coast man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl was convicted after trial by a jury and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years on Sept. 17.

Shaun Everette Whitt, 32, was convicted of sexual battery on a victim under 12 years of age, a first-degree capital felony, and engaging  in sexual conduct with a minor, a first-degree felony.

Assistant State Attorney Christina Opsahl prosecuted the case, outlining the frequent and repeated sexual abuse on the 11-year-old victim by Whitt during the previous year when she was 11 years old. Physical evidence in the victim's own bedroom and a medical examination presented at trial corroborated her claims that Whitt routinely forced himself on her when she as home alone while her mother was at work.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- US. Sen. Marco Rubio will be in Orlando and Kissimmee on Wednesday, March 25, with times and locations as follows: 10 am to noon, Renaissance Senior Community Center at Orange County Parks & Rec., 3800 S. Econlockhatchee Trail, Orlando; and from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Poinciana Community Center 395 Marigold Ave., Kissimmee.

OAK HILL, Fla. Check out Linda's Lagoon.

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- There's no popcorn, but the movies are free in the aditorium of the Ormond Beach Regional Library, which shows free movies in its auditorium.

Upcoming movies include: