So is your son or daughter having Special K as an after school snack? And do you know we're not talking cereal? ...more

February 20, 2008

I'm a wife and mother of two, with three grandchildren. I've always loved to eat, so I've had a weight problem at all times of my life. In 1997, I developed a thyroid problem. It was so overactive it affected my heart. It took the doctors more than a year to get my medications right. That's when I gained all my weight. ...more

February 15, 2008

A massive beehive has taken shape in a tree, roughly 50 feet in the air, during the past several months, and city officials decided to have it removed. ...more

January 23, 2008

A water main break forced the city to close one lane of Ashley Drive between Channelside Drive and Brorein Street on Monday. Part of the road was expected to remain closed today. ...more

January 8, 2008

Lightning D Brad Lukowich didn't want to sit out any games, let alone two consecutive. ...more

December 27, 2007

When I was 11 years old, there wasn't a lot of reason to pine for a stack of presents piled under a Christmas tree. ...more

December 25, 2007

SEBRING — Often, kids who enter the Highlands County Courthouse are more afraid of the front lobby than they are of actually going inside a courtroom. With this in mind, bailiffs at the courthouse have been celebrating the holidays by handing out stuffed animals to kids. After going through the building's metal detector and letting their items pass through an X-ray machine, children are allowed to choose a toy amongst a group of stuffed animals sitting underneath a Christmas tree. "It's been pretty successful," said bailiff William Dilling. "We had a little girl come in a few days ago who was afraid to go through the metal detector, but we were able to convince her that she'd get a (stuffed animal) out of it." ...more

December 24, 2007

TAMPA - There's something special about peering over the edge of a 450-foot-tall building just after dawn and then climbing over the roof's railing; the only thing protecting you from plummeting to your death is a thin length of rope and a narrow swing seat. ...more

December 6, 2007

The Rays remain rigidly noncommittal when asked when LHP David Price might break into the majors, with Manager Joe Maddon throwing out the possibility that it might occur in 2008 and executive Andrew Friedman unwilling to go that far. ...more

December 5, 2007

Off the field, Cody Grey is very polite, and seems a quiet, rather humble young man. But on the field, he lets his speed, his dribbling, his leadership and his huge right foot do all of the talking for him. ...more

December 2, 2007