A 53-year-old Land O' Lakes man was killed Thursday morning when his vehicle struck a wooden utility pool and barbed-wire fence on County Line Road east of Alexson Street, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

August 28, 2009

I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled the entire length of the frontier numerous times, dined and slept in just about every border town on both sides and chatted with folks of high and low life throughout. ...more

February 21, 2009

Here are a couple more letters on your experiences in Florida emergency rooms. Everyone seems to have his or her own tale. Instead of publishing more of them I'd prefer to hear possible solutions such as patient representatives to local urgent care centers. ...more

February 17, 2009

Polk County deputies have released a 911 call made from one of the people who found the body of a Haines City teenager this weekend. ...more

January 21, 2009

Polk County deputies have arrested the husband of the driver they say struck and killed a Haines City teenager Friday night. Rodney Clem Cummings was in the car with his wife, Candy Cummings, when the vehicle struck 17-year-old Samantha Hastings, sending her flying into a barbed wire fence, deputies said. ...more

January 19, 2009

An anonymous tip led Polk County deputies to arrest a woman in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a 17-year-old girl Friday night. ...more

January 19, 2009

Before she left her house Friday night to hang out with a friend, Samantha Hasting sent a text message. ...more

January 18, 2009

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is looking for a vehicle, possibly a Ford, that struck and killed a 17-year-old Haines City girl Friday night, officials said. ...more

January 17, 2009

As he convalesced at home Friday - with 33 staples zippered across his scalp, an eye nearly swollen shut, wrist wrapped in a bandage - Frank De Los Reyes delivered a simple message: ...more

December 27, 2008

The family drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depicts the Holocaust through the simplistic eyes of a child: all the brutality, all the absurdity, crystallized by the innocence of an 8-year-old boy. ...more

November 20, 2008