Police have identified a skeleton found in a state park in Broward County as an elderly man who went missing almost a year ago. ...more

April 10, 2009

Being a pet lover, like so many other people, I was very disappointed with the way our Humane Society in Highlands County offered pet adoption for me, the elderly. ...more

April 2, 2009

Prosecutors in South Florida are taking a fresh look at evidence in the 2007 death of actress-model Anna Nicole Smith. ...more

March 25, 2009

More vacant and abandoned foreclosure properties are popping up across America. ...more

March 9, 2009

Rescue workers are at the scene of a fatal train accident in Broward County. ...more

March 5, 2009

A lawmaker has filed a bill seeking to limit the state's authority to operate a Medicaid privatization experiment ...more

March 2, 2009

Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 18, 2009

Dominick Ferello incited a mob of first-graders on Monday. It was Ferello's first day back on the job as principal of Explorer K-8 after a six-week break as he recovered from an illness, and Angela Esposito's class was clearly happy to see him. ...more

December 16, 2008

Back in late May and early June, Highlands County government officials, home builders and real estate agents talked about the possibility of an advertising campaign targeting coastal areas to promote home buying in Highlands County. ...more

December 2, 2008

Federal authorities have charged Kevin Negus Patterson with trying to deliver six kilograms of cocaine from Broward County to Lunch Markinley Philentrope in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 18, 2008