Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Lake City isn't the first local ...

MIAMI — Even the phones went down in the government of Lake City ... It was the second city to agree to a large ransom in two weeks. Riviera Beach, in Florida’s Palm Beach County, signed ...

On Monday, in an emergency meeting of the city council, the administration of Lake City, a small Florida city with a population of 65,000, voted to pay a ransom demand of 42 bitcoins, worth nearly ...