A financial audit of the School Board of Highlands County showed two "significant deficiencies," according to the State of Florida Auditor General, but no major problems with the district's accounting procedures. ...more

March 31, 2009

County commissioners are accepting applications from people interested in serving on the Budget and Finance Standing Committee and the Business and Economic Development Standing Committee. ...more

January 24, 2009

County commissioners Wednesday fleshed out details of their recently created standing committees and how the public can take part. ...more

January 17, 2009

Three Florida A&M University students are facing federal charges of hacking the school's computer system. ...more

October 21, 2008

saying for the first time that every child of age 6 months and older should get them. ...more

September 26, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Having spent more than 3,000 nights in motels during his vast travels, Irving Baker thinks he knows what people like in overnight lodging. He was born and raised in New York, but ran away from home at age 16 and hitchhiked to Wauchula. He spent a year there picking cucumbers, oranges, and planting cabbages and then joined the Marine Corps. Loving to travel, he has been in every capital of the United States. He drove trucks, accumulating 2.5 million miles by the time he semi retired in 1994 as a teamster. It was then he settled down. For five years he owned a restaurant and a golf course in St. Paris, OH. ...more

November 4, 2007

Karen Pate figures science teachers seldom get the recognition they deserve. ...more

October 12, 2007