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LAND O' LAKES - With many airlines now charging passengers for each checked bag, travelers are looking at alternatives to get their luggage to its destination. ...more
December 14, 2008
Back in the day, Cheryl Phelps was slapped in the face by an airborne mullet and forced to defend her family's campsite from a troupe of rogue raccoons - and those are two of her fondest childhood memories. ...more
October 8, 2008
Back in the day, Cheryl Phelps was slapped in the face by an airborne mullet and forced to defend her family's campsite from a troupe of rogue raccoons - and those are two of her fondest childhood memories. ...more
October 8, 2008
Betty Skelton Erde is 82 and lives in a retirement community where many are content to putter about in golf carts. Not Erde: She drives a blazing red Corvette to match her red hair and really means it when she says, "I like fast cars." ...more
August 14, 2008
SEBRING — The Memorial Day weekend will also be the time when more Heartlanders start heading out to the lakes with their boats, fishing poles, jet skis and swimming trunks. It's also the time the Highlands County Sheriff's Office would set up their boat patrols, but the lakes are so low, they can only do it in Lake June, Capt. Paul Blackman said. So as they are limited to shore patrols for the other popular boating lakes in the county until the water levels come back up, he's asking boaters to take safety precautions before they run their motors. ...more
May 24, 2008
Authorities say a 76-year-old retired nurse -- whom neighbors described as frail, petite and charitable -- was killed during a burglary or robbery. ...more
May 22, 2008
Florida wildlife officials plan to issue more permits than ever for the state's public alligator hunting season, now in its 20th year. ...more
May 7, 2008
TAMPA - For 11 weeks starting in August, alligator hunters, most of them amateurs, will ply the nighttime lakes and rivers of Florida in search of hides, meat and the thrill of boating one of the state's signature reptiles. ...more
May 6, 2008
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