ORLANDO (AP) — A man who was in an Orlando office when a former employee came in and started shooting said today that the ordeal that left one dead and five injured lasted about a minute. ...more

November 9, 2009

His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill. ...more

November 8, 2009

Michael Waltrip pulled up to the back of Jimmie Johnson's car, settled in on his bumper and shoved him all the way around Talladega Superspeedway as the two drivers worked on a strategy for NASCAR's fastest race track. ...more

November 1, 2009

One hundred and twenty gallons of diesel spilled at the landfill, concluded an engineering firm hired by Highlands County to investigate the fuel spill. That information is being reported to the state. ...more

October 23, 2009

Drivers should brace for downtown streets to be torn up over the next year as work gets under way today to replace miles of water pipelines, some more than a century old. ...more

October 5, 2009

Rapper 50 Cent is taking on an engineering firm over home repairs at his Connecticut mansion. ...more

June 2, 2009

Tampa Downtown Rotary Club awarded the Rotary Service Above Self award to John H. Sykes, founder and chairman emeritus of Sykes Enterprises, at its May 19 meeting. ...more

May 27, 2009

Two months after the Zephyrhills Airport Authority voted to seek a formal review of its $2.8 million hangar project, airport manager Trina Sweet says she is prepared to move forward with the audit. ...more

March 19, 2009

As he vowed, County Commissioner Jim Adkins on Tuesday asked his colleagues to reconsider their recent vote to charge citizens for information requested of government officials. ...more

March 12, 2009

With an $800,000 appropriation from the state, the Highlands County Department of Natural Resources will begin dredging residential canals running off Lake Istokpoga. ...more

March 7, 2009