The father of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl said he and his 17-year-old girlfriend have passed polygraph tests, according to CNN.com. ...more

February 12, 2009

Investigators say they are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl as an abduction because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday offered no evidence she wandered off. Her father's dread and uncertainty is what Mark Lunsford felt four years ago when his daughter, 9-year-old Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford, was abducted from her Citrus County mobile home. ...more

February 12, 2009

They can zoom along at up to 80 mph and venture into wet territory where most watercraft cannot go. They are airboats, a growing recreational, albeit expensive, hobby in Florida. ...more

January 30, 2009

Hernando County's beleaguered mass transit system, seemingly on life support since the day it debuted due to low ridership numbers, appears to have been spared from death yet again. ...more

January 29, 2009

GIRLS WEIGHTLIFTING Three-time county champion Lady Eagles improve to 4-0 in final dual meet with a 59-31 win over Lecanto; look toward the start of the state series. ...more

January 21, 2009

Police have released the identity of a man killed in a head-on collision in Citrus County on Thursday. Paul James McDermott II, 41, of Beverly Hills, was killed after his car veered into oncoming traffic on County Road 491 near U.S. 41, police said. He died at the scene. His identity was withheld Thursday pending notification of relatives. ...more

January 9, 2009

Comedian Milton Berle once quipped a committee is "a group that keeps minutes and loses hours." ...more

January 9, 2009

A Citrus County man was killed and a woman hospitalized this morning after the two were involved in a head-on collision on County Road 491 just north of U.S. 41. ...more

January 8, 2009

GIRLS WEIGHTLIFTING Unbeaten NCT (4-0) sweeps tri-meet against Central and host Hernando. NCT, HHS EACH HAVE FIVE INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS ...more

January 7, 2009

It was raining and snowing heavily Sunday in upper New England. The same went for sections of the Midwest and Northwest. ...more

December 29, 2008