Hannelore Hoffmen could see the chaos and hear it outside of her neighbor's home Sunday night: the smoke, the crackling of the fire, the confusion from those who had been inside and the screams. ...more

November 17, 2009

Residents can do their part to help build the Veterans Monument and Park by buying bricks that are being used in the redesign for Courier Field. ...more

November 4, 2009

The story of local veterans' service is being told at VFW Post 10209, one brick at a time. ...more

February 18, 2009

Drug Free Highlands and the Highlands County Sheriff's Office want parents of teens to talk with their children about underage drinking and they have come up with a way to initiate that conversation. ...more

January 29, 2009

The Border Patrol has finished installing razor-sharp barbed wire atop a 5-mile stretch of fence on the Mexican border, an addition critics call heavy-handed and an eyesore. ...more

November 20, 2008

Divers searching for a sign of Caylee Anthony on Thursday found a plastic bag with toys and small bones weighted down by bricks, bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said. ...more

November 13, 2008

It was the weekly meeting of the Brandon '86 Rotary, which meets at some ungodly hour around sunrise in Buckhorn Springs. Maybe there's something in the water out there, but everyone seemed awfully chipper. ...more

August 25, 2008

Mexicans working in other countries are sending less money home, threatening businesses, stalling construction and choking cash flow to hamlets where as much as half the population works in the United States. ...more

August 7, 2008

The latest in plywood-reinforced walls, tied-down foundations, strengthened concrete and stronger welds - if an earthquake had to hit somewhere in densely populated Southern California, this relatively new suburb of 80,000 people was about the best place possible. ...more

July 31, 2008

A historic Ybor City building that was the focus of a preservation fight after it caught fire 20 months ago looks much the same as it did in the days immediately following the blaze. ...more

July 27, 2008