I wonder if the residents of Highlands County are aware that a total stranger can park his or her vehicle in front of your house, come on to your property without your permission and take an animal, and the police will not do a thing about it? Yes, this can and did happen to me. ...more

October 23, 2008

Christopher Holder said he was just rapping, but now he's got a rap sheet. ...more

February 7, 2008

BROOKSVILLE Christopher Holder said he was just rapping, but now he's got a rap sheet. The Hernando County teenager acknowledged he repeated a sexual expletive several times near a woman and her children prior to his misdemeanor arrest Sunday, deputies say. He told them he merely was parroting a rap song. ...more

February 6, 2008

Kristina Contes was a 28-year-old rising star in the world of scrapbooking, with a silver stud in her lip and a tattoo in Latin on her left forearm: "art is long, life is short." ...more

January 19, 2008

As the Christmas season approaches, patrons at the Sail Inn bar have to pay up if they let the mother of all curse words slip off their tongues. ...more

December 19, 2007

Regarding "Kill 'Em, But Watch Your Language" (Metro, Nov. 3): I take exception to Daniel Ruth's column on coaches who curse. I have always been taught that people who use curse words are uneducated and have a poor vocabulary or they wouldn't need curse words to express themselves. ...more

November 13, 2007