A trust fund has been established to help the 7-year-old son of an Avon Park police officer who died while on duty Christmas Day. ...more

December 31, 2008

Family members say the woman reported missing Friday from a cruise ship near Mexico "has had previous emotional issues" and might have chosen "an unfortunate ending to her life." ...more

December 30, 2008

Authorities have suspended their search for a Winter Haven woman reported missing Friday from a cruise ship near Cancun, Mexico. ...more

December 29, 2008

Funeral services have been set for an Avon Park police officer who died Christmas Day while on duty. ...more

December 29, 2008

Alvah H. Chapman Jr., a giant of the newspaper industry who helped Miami rebuild after Hurricane Andrew, died of pneumonia on Christmas Day. He was 87. ...more

December 29, 2008

Break out the dictionary. It's open season. On Jon Gruden. ...more

December 28, 2008

A family didn't realize they'd had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said. ...more

December 28, 2008

Even during a most peaceful of holidays, terrible things can happen, and that's exactly what happened here in Highlands County on Christmas day. ...more

December 28, 2008

Ernest and Rose Flanagan always left home at 5 a.m. when they traveled, and they apparently held to that routine Christmas morning as they started on a two-day journey to visit a relative in Ohio. ...more

December 27, 2008

Police arrested a Brooksville man on Christmas Day and seized his cocaine. ...more

December 27, 2008