10/08/06 Loss & Life
(Ocala Star-Banner)
Until a month ago, Nick George and Shannon Lewis had no idea the other existed. The first time they met was in early September.  Yet the Ocala residents share a bond extending back nearly nine years, a connection sealed through personal tragedy for one and a new beginning for the other.

10/07/06 From Iraq, GI proposes at Gator Growl
(Gainesville Sun)
Jacksonville resident Stephanie Alford burst into tears when her boyfriend, Ocala native Matthew Cretul, came on the big screen at Gator Growl at the University of Florida on Friday night.

10/05/06 Second Farm Share on SR 200 delivers
(Ocala Star-Banner)
Farm Share parked one of its huge semi trucks in front of state Rep. Larry Cretul's administrative office on State Road 200 to set up a temporary distribution site. It brought 42,000 pounds of perishable and nonperishable items to individuals and charities in need. 

09/06 A Few Moments with Representative Larry Cretul
(Building Edge Magazine)
Representative Cretul is interviewed for the most recent edition of Building Edge Magazine

09/07/06 Familiar names fight for House seat
(Ocala Star-Banner)
While Cretul said he's happy to hear Thurman described as what was once known as a "Dixiecrat" - because it puts him "more in line with positions I've taken" - he said that one of their biggest political differences is in terms of experience.

06/16/06  Rep. Cretul says Marion did well in Tallahassee
(Ocala Star-Banner)
The former Marion County commissioner, who is running for his third term representing District 22 - an area that covers State Road 200 and stretches into Alachua and Levy counties - graded his performance during a legislative report card he delivered earlier this week at the Southwest State Road 200 Coalition.

11/02/05  Cretul files House bill on flu vaccine production
(Gainesville Sun)
State Rep. Larry Cretul, R-Ocala, has filed a bill in the Florida House of Representatives to try to fend off another vaccine shortage like the one last fall that saw long lines of seniors waiting for a flu shot.

10/14/05  State official proposes student bills
(Ocala Star-Banner)
If things go as state Rep. Larry Cretul plans, eighth-graders in Marion and Alachua counties could be laying down the law next year.

10/13/05  There Ought To Be A Law ...
(WESH-TV)
State Rep. Larry Cretul, R-Ocala, is allowing students in his district to come up with an idea for a bill. A committee will select one idea and file a real bill based on the students' research.

08/08/05  New Task Force
(850-AM)
District 22 State Representative Larry Cretul will be taking part in a task force to examine impact fees. He was selected by House Speaker Allan Bense, and will assume an ex-official role, as a non-voting representative of the House.

06/25/05  Cretul keeps locals close to heart
(850-AM)
District 22 State Representative Larry Cretul will be taking part in a task force to examine impact fees. He was selected by House Speaker Allan Bense, and will assume an ex-official role, as a non-voting representative of the House.

05/10/05  Last-minute bill helps cystic fibrosis patients
(Gainesville Sun)
A bill passed in the last hours of the last day of the Florida legislative session could offer a breath of life to adult cystic fibrosis patients in critical need of a lung transplant.

05/5/05 $22 million slated for the region
(Gainesville Sun)
Recreation, infrastructure and health services in North Central Florida are expected to get a boost from the $63 billion state budget released earlier this week.

05/5/05 Ocala fronton could cut live performances by 60 percent
(Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Larry Cretul, R-Ocala, said the Ocala fronton cannot afford to host so many live shows. Lowering the required number of performances will allow the fronton to keep its off-track betting operation functioning. And the facility will still pay the same amount of taxes to the state.

04/28/05 State proposing aid for professional sports in Florida
(850-AM)
The proposal will provide up to $500,000 annually to help some spring training sites around the state. Larry Cretul, Republican Florida Representative, supports the bill and says it will help the economy throughout Florida.

04/18/05 Sex Offender Legislation Gains Steam
(850-AM)
The proposed legislation deals with electronic monitoring of sexual offenders and increased punishment for harboring sexual offenders. State Representative for District 22 Larry Cretul says this is an issue that hits close to home for many house members who have children of their own.

04/11/05 Lawmaker Wants Hit-And-Run Penalties Toughened
(WCJB TV 20 News)
Cretul says he believes if someone hits and kills another person with a car, and then flees the scene, they should face much stiffer penalties, so he is proposing an amendment to a bill that is now before his fellow state representatives and senators.

04/7/05 Moved by Terri, legislator distributes living wills
(Ocala Star-Banner)
Cretul, who set up at a kiosk Saturday across from the mall's information booth, distributed more than 100 living wills to anyone who would take them, as well as a few who were more of a hard sell.

03/4/05 Cretul checks with voters before session begins
(South Marion Citizen Online)
This year's legislative session is slated to begin on March 8 and Florida House Representative Larry Cretul is checking with the voters of District 22 before heading off to Tallahassee.

11/23/04 Reflecting poorly on our times
(Ocala Star-Banner)
So warped has become our sense of competition and the importance of winning that the Florida Legislature last year passed a law, sponsored by Ocala's own state Rep. Larry Cretul, establishing penalties of up to $10,000 in fines and three years in jail for attacking referees and other sports officials at school and youth league sporting events.

11/20/04 Representative Cretul Letter to the Editor
(Ocala Star-Banner)
In Wednesday’s Star-Banner Editorial “State Should Take Care of its Own” the editors rightly praised last week’s Circuit Court ruling overturning a new law that requires counties to pay for the state’s juvenile detention centers. I agree—it does “pass the buck” on juvenile detention centers to Florida’s 67 counties. It is an unfunded mandate.

11/7/04 State should take care of its own
(Ocala Star-Banner)
A judge in Tallahassee struck down as unconstitutional a state law passed earlier this year that mandated local governments to pay for the pre-trial housing and feeding of juvenile inmates held at Florida Department of Juvenile Justice's 25 facilities, including one in Ocala.