TAMPA - Lawyer John Fitzgibbons no longer has to represent Ahmed Mohamed, a U.S. magistrate ruled Monday. ...more

January 14, 2008

It's a game of one step forward, three steps back. ...more

January 8, 2008

The suicide bomber walked straight to the Sunni Arab leader of a group battling al-Qaida in Iraq, shook his target's hand and detonated the explosives wrapped around his body. ...more

January 8, 2008

It's a game of one step forward, three steps back. In the Hernando County School Board's annual financial audit for 2006-07, released last month, the district has shown major improvement in an area where it has been historically cited. ...more

January 8, 2008

SEBRING — County and state officials have no control over when Highlands County's home building industry will recover. That depends on whether the economy keeps slumping or starts jumping. But government officials will control where the the new development occurs, and that's at the heart of the county commissioners' pending adoption of what the state calls "urban services boundaries." Commissioners laid the groundwork this week to do just that before the end of this month, with a few twists. ...more

December 13, 2007

Fans of the three local government and public access channels will have to look elsewhere - and maybe even pay a little more - starting today. ...more

December 11, 2007

Letter writer misses the point Re: "County experiencing a turnip crop failure." ...more

December 10, 2007

The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities of U.S. questioners, the director of the agency told employees Thursday. ...more

December 7, 2007

Taliban militants tortured five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and then hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday. ...more

November 19, 2007

It's a blow to the public's access to government that Pasco County and its municipalities don't have more control over cable television broadcasts of their meetings and announcements to constituents. ...more

November 18, 2007