"The Killing Fields," a 1984 movie about the wartime life of journalist Dith Pran, explored the horrors inflicted by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. ...more

February 2, 2009

Who is Susan Benton? She's lived in Highlands County since 1978, she's worked in highly visible jobs with the county and the sheriff's office. And she's been sheriff nearly four years. ...more

October 23, 2008

The map in Georgina Rivera-Singletary's office at Pasco High School serves both as a reminder and a conversation piece. ...more

October 22, 2008

Nobel laureate Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of Communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. ...more

August 4, 2008

AVON PARK — The name is all wrong, confesses Matt Bokor. Redlands Christian Migrant Association is no longer just in the Redlands migrant labor camps of Homestead. It's expanded beyond its Christian upbringing into secular education for 21 Florida counties. It's not just for migrants anymore; any low-income family is served. And it's a charitable non-profit corporation. "The Mennonites started us," said Bokor's boss, Barbara Mainster. "They're 'love thy neighbor' Christians, and we're still that kind of Christian." ...more

January 6, 2008