A nonprofit provider offering affordable primary medical care to the needy and those without health insurance plans to construct a treatment facility on eastern Tarpon Avenue. ...more

May 24, 2008

SEBRING — About 50 senior citizens got their blood pumping Tuesday morning with a total body workout at the Highlands County Family YMCA. Fitness Instructor Jane Goodlett led the SilverSneakers class. "Smile through your pain," she told the class as they extended their weights into a lateral raise. "Yes, you can do it!" Joe Hood groaned as the class started another rotation of arm exercises with dumbbells. Hood, the "class clown," likes making comments throughout the class to make people laugh and take their minds off the exercise. Although he grumbles, he said he loves the class, which he attends at least two times per week. ...more

February 19, 2008

The mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs will be participating in the Go Red For Women nationwide movement during February, which is American Heart Month. ...more

February 1, 2008

No one was crying in his beer. Then again, none of the roughly 100 Home Depot call center employees at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon on Jan. 23 was jumping for joy, either. ...more

January 30, 2008

No one was crying in his beer. Then again, none of the roughly 100 Home Depot call center employees at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon on Jan. 23 was jumping for joy, either. ...more

January 28, 2008

TAMPA - A national insurance company's local office is the subject of an FBI raid today, authorities said. WellCare Health Plans Inc. issued a brief statement Wednesday afternoon acknowledging that state and federal officials executed a search warrant at the company's Tampa headquarters earlier in the day. ...more

October 24, 2007

Dogged by suggestions that he's too old to be president, John McCain often has said he should bring his mother to campaign stops to demonstrate his good genes. On Wednesday, he did. ...more

October 18, 2007

Mark Parsons, 59, Forest Hills Height: 5-foot-10 ...more

September 20, 2007

The Aug. 30 story regarding our school health services left your readers with the misimpression that we do not have adequate health coverage in our schools. I'd like to set the record straight. ...more

September 6, 2007