About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008, a roughly 20 percent increase from 2007. Unemployment rates and drug use also increased in the state - a factor in many of the deaths, according to a preliminary report. ...more

December 30, 2009

A Sebring man was arrested Sunday on a warrant accusing him of stealing a generator from a woman who was trying to lease him property. ...more

December 16, 2009

In today's employment market, college educated people and mid-level career professionals are taking jobs they are over-qualified for. ...more

December 6, 2009

Detectives have finally caught a South Florida man who allegedly killed his friend two years ago and stuffed him in a freezer. ...more

December 6, 2009

Drivers on a 47-mile stretch of Florida's Turnpike won't have to stop or slow down to pay tolls starting in 2011. ...more

November 21, 2009

Bill Kurek had been coming here from Broward County for 40 years, and he kept passing the sign that boasted Lake Placid was the caladium capital of the world. ...more

November 16, 2009

Doctors for the Deerfield Beach boy set on fire by a group of teenagers say he's showing significant progress. Michael Brewer is being treated at a burn center jointly run by the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. The center director said Thursday the 15-year-old's wounds have staved off infection — a common complication of severe burns. ...more

October 23, 2009

Scott Warren has stepped down as branch executive of the Plant City Family YMCA to take a similar job at a new YMCA branch in Pembroke Pines. ...more

October 21, 2009

I received my trim notice late last week; it seems the good old boys are doing it again. If you have lowered my assessment from last year why have my taxes gone up $302.12 this year? Does any one care to answer? Will you say it's because of the state on school taxes? ...more

September 2, 2009

The Florida's Turnpike is closed in both directions in Broward County following a shooting that left one man dead. ...more

August 14, 2009