A Lowry Elementary homework assignment had fifth-graders baking cookies for senior citizens, picking up trash on beaches and making goody bags for cancer patients during treatment. ...more

October 15, 2008

A Lowry Elementary homework assignment had fifth-graders baking cookies for senior citizens, picking up trash on beaches and making goody bags for cancer patients during treatment. ...more

October 15, 2008

We've pinched and reorganized our household budgets. But we still often overpay for commercially bottled water. On an annual basis, the typical American consumer spends $1,400 on bottled water versus 49 cents for the same amount of water from our kitchen faucet, according to the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit consumer group in Maryland. ...more

August 21, 2008

SEBRING — Four hundred and seventeen traffic stops were made locally by the Highlands County Sheriff's Office during last week's statewide Move Over Enforcement Wave. ...more

July 5, 2008

The half-dozen brown pelicans shifted restlessly, jockeying for position as Dan Harp's three children tossed baitfish to the burly birds from atop a wooden platform. ...more

June 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The half-dozen brown pelicans shifted restlessly, jockeying for position as Dan Harp's three children tossed baitfish to the burly birds from atop a wooden platform. ...more

June 24, 2008

There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. ...more

May 9, 2008

A Food and Drug Administration panel of advisers voted Friday to ban scores of popular over-the-counter cough and cold products intended for children under the age of 6 because they have not been proved to work and can cause injuries. ...more

October 20, 2007