Congressman, Miss U.S. break-up tops local stories of 2025

School changes, teen murder convictions also among top stories.

U.S. Rep. Cory Mills talks during a hearing at the Columbia County Courthouse in September. Mills was hit with a restraining order in October to stay away from Lindsey Langston. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

The Columbia County Courthouse provided the venue for some of the biggest stories of the past 12 months.

It wasn’t the only site in and around downtown Lake City that captured our attention or the atte…