Hunched over after pulling a back muscle early Sunday morning, Sebring coach Venessa Sinness cautiously paced the sideline, making slight gestures to fire up her squad. ...more

October 21, 2009

Bulls will be bucking and cowboys will be holding on for dear life Saturday evening at the annual Bullistic bull riding event at Firemen's Field. ...more

April 2, 2009

Sean O'Hair survived a windy, rugged test Saturday at Bay Hill and wound up in the final group with Tiger Woods for the second straight year - with one big difference. ...more

March 29, 2009

ZEPHYRHILLS - Kathy Lovelace lost her job and was about to lose her house, too. But then she made a seemingly simple request of the bank: Show me the original mortgage paperwork. And just like that, the foreclosure proceedings came to a standstill. ...more

February 18, 2009

Sometimes the bull wins. But more often than not, it's a rider like "Iron Man" Luke Snyder. ...more

February 5, 2009

The Florida Gators are college football's national champions for the second time in three years thanks to heart, persistence, a hypercompetitive defense, and a Tim Tebow jump pass. ...more

January 9, 2009

It was almost an epic collapse. Instead, it became another teeth-gritting, palm-sweating, relief-sighing victory for the Florida State Seminoles. ...more

December 14, 2008

It was 18 years ago that I last saw then-Cmdr. Kevin Cosgriff. I was climbing (actually hanging on for dear life) down a rope ladder over the side of the USS Robert G. Bradley into a pilot boat that would haul me back to Egmont Key as the guided missile frigate moved slowly in the dawn light just beyond the Sunshine Skyway. ...more

October 22, 2008

Terri Schiavo suffered heart failure in 1990 at the age of 26, lapsing into a persistent vegetative state. Her husband said she told him she would not want to live like that. Her parents felt otherwise. What followed was the nation's most bitter right-to-die dispute, invoking the courts, the president and even the pope. ...more

August 7, 2008

It's with great sadness that almost every week another business is shutting its doors in Highlands County due to a bad economy. Just a couple of years ago a lot of folks were conjuring any kind of business to open, believing the then-booming economy would make them successful. ...more

July 24, 2008