Elections supervisors are adding new equipment, updating Web sites with wait times and handing out fans and water to people standing in long early voting lines. ...more

October 22, 2008

A sign hanging inside John McCain's campaign office in Pompano Beach juxtaposed a series of headshots: Fidel Castro, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx - and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. ...more

October 17, 2008

Judges are urged to warn habitual traffic offenders that guilty or no contest pleas could lead to the loss of their licenses - even though such warnings aren't yet required, a divided Florida Supreme Court said Thursday. ...more

September 19, 2008

United Airlines and its stockholders experienced the potential dangers inherent in a high-tech society Monday when outdated information about a 2002 bankruptcy filing zoomed around the Internet and prompted a run on the company's stock. ...more

September 11, 2008

City staff will go to a four-day workweek in the next fiscal year. ...more

September 4, 2008

On Wednesday City Council decided the trend within the public and private sectors toward a four-day work week was worth a try for the city's coming fiscal year. ...more

September 3, 2008

Many of our paths have crossed over the pasty several years since I moved to Highlands County from Broward County. Although my primary career was in law enforcement, I have been involved with real estate since the mid '70s. I love Highlands County but am concerned that our county commissioners may not be practicing due prudence on expensive capital projects, particularly the new sheriff's building, which is the purpose of this letter. ...more

September 2, 2008

It's a little acreage on Henscratch Road, between Lake Placid and Sebring. You gotta know how to get there to get there. ...more

August 16, 2008

If you're a new teacher, Hernando schools Superintendent Wayne Alexander wants you to have his number on speed dial. ...more

August 14, 2008

Folsom Elementary School's new principal, Cora-Lynne Wimberly, believes she was destined to be an educator. ...more

August 13, 2008