Q. How safe is this H1N1 shot or nasal spray? I have heard it has caused some pretty serious problems. ... I love my children. I want them to be safe but I'm not sure what is best at this time? I am a single mother of three and my children have recently been offered the shot at school. What happens to the parent or parents at home after the children have been treated? ...more

October 30, 2009

He created a Web site for pet lovers. He felt the love from hundreds of screaming dog owners when he walked through the crowd Saturday at Tom Varn Park. ...more

March 22, 2009

The theft of a purse at a day care center turned into a two-county police pursuit and ended with gunfire this morning, authorities said. ...more

December 18, 2008

BUSINESS NOTES APRON'S OPENS: Publix Super Markets Inc. opened its first stand-alone Apron's Make-Ahead Meal class Sept. 4 at 5672 FishHawk Crossing Blvd., Lithia, in the FishHawk Crossing shopping center. Apron's offers scheduled sessions during which customers visit various stations stocked with recipe ingredients, assemble their own meals and package them to take home. Each meal feeds from four to six people. Prices range from three meals for $59.99 to 12 meals for $189.99. The store also offers pre-made, take-out meals. For information or to reserve a day and time for meal making, go to www.publixmakemeals.com or call (813) 643-4352. ...more

September 10, 2008

LAKE PLACID – An ownership change is in the works for the Montessori Children's School of Lake Placid, which opened in 2001. Jennifer Payne, a longtime volunteer at the school, recently became its director. "I have a contract right now to purchase the school," Payne said Monday. The school's owner, Shannon Fritzius, has been ill, according to Payne. The school will likely close under Fritzius' ownership in mid to late July and then reopen for the fall semester, she said. ...more

June 30, 2008

TAMPA - A preschool teacher arrested Thursday after deputies accused him of fondling a 4-year-old boy was arrested again today on a charge of capital sexual battery, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 9, 2008

Co-ed Softball Standings: (thru 02-07) ...more

February 20, 2008

While her clients are hundreds of miles away, enjoying Christmas Day in colder climes, Lynda Seeber will be wrangling some 30 dogs, maybe more. ...more

December 24, 2007

SEBRING –– The My School Preschool and Child Development Center will be relocating its daycare to Living Waters Church of God starting Monday, said owner Jennifer Lipowski. A fire Tuesday at the daycare's original location caused the relocation. Lipowski had run the business at 1002 Persimmon Ave. in Sebring for the last 10 years. The cause of the fire could likely be electrical in nature, said Mike Roberts, deputy chief of Sebring Fire and Rescue, in an interview Wednesday. A story that ran Thursday in the Highlands Today incorrectly stated that parents will have to find alternative accommodation. That is not the case. ...more

November 30, 2007

SEBRING – Parents of about 100 children who used the My School Preschool and Child Development Center will have to seek alternative daycare for their children after a fire Tuesday evening destroyed the inside of the building. ...more

November 28, 2007