Commissioners Diane Rowden and Chris Kingsley gave their farewells at Wednesday's meeting, their last as board members. ...more

November 13, 2008

Protecting children from the pitfalls and perils of the world is a job most parents take very seriously. We go to great lengths to teach our young right from wrong, keep them warm, clothed and fed. We lay awake nights worrying about how to expose them to the things they must know about and how to shelter them from the bad they don't need to know about just yet. ...more

November 12, 2008

Google Inc. has scrapped its Internet advertising partnership with struggling rival Yahoo Inc., abandoning attempts to overcome the objections of antitrust regulators and customers who believed the alliance would give Google too much power over online commerce. ...more

November 6, 2008

The father of new Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton said racial abuse and other insults directed at his son and family led him to consider withdrawing the 23-year-old driver from the sport. ...more

November 5, 2008

Phone company Frontier Communications Co. will probably charge its subscribers a dollar or two per gigabyte of Internet traffic if they go over the monthly allotments the company plans to introduce next year, Frontier's chief executive said Friday. ...more

November 2, 2008

to the dismay of doctors and hospitals - 82 percent of Floridians voting in the general election approved a state constitutional amendment granting them access to information about medical mistakes by health care facilities and providers. ...more

October 23, 2008

The resolve of the Avon Park football team has been tested this season. ...more

October 17, 2008

China's leaders scrambled Saturday to contain public dismay over widespread contamination of milk supplies, castigating local officials for negligence while moving to tamp down criticism of the government's response. ...more

September 21, 2008

Hoping to win back the White House in November, Democrats in August are, in Obama's phrase, turning the page. ...more

August 27, 2008

Hoping to win back the White House in November, Democrats in August are, in Obama's phrase, turning the page. ...more

August 27, 2008