a better reflection of the news value of the event than a description of this remarkable storm. ...more

August 21, 2008

PALM BEACH COUNTY – Two tornados touched down this morning in Palm Beach County, damaging a business and a home, but no injuries were reported as Tropical Storm Fay moved across the state. ...more

August 19, 2008

Surrounded by a sea of sugarcane, this poverty-ravaged town on the southeastern edge of Lake Okeechobee always has been one of the country's most fertile football areas. ...more

August 17, 2008

Surrounded by a sea of sugarcane, this poverty-ravaged town on the southeastern edge of Lake Okeechobee has long been one of the country's most fertile football areas. ...more

August 17, 2008

Some of Florida's U.S. House members complained Wednesday about being kept in the dark during the state's secret negotiations of a $1.75 billion proposed buyout of U.S. Sugar Corp. ...more

July 31, 2008

The Seminole leader Wild Cat, captured with Osceola under a flag of truce during a meeting with U.S. Army officers, became one of the most feared leaders of the Second Seminole War. ...more

July 20, 2008

The state's plan to buy 187,000 acres from U.S. Sugar Corp. worries the residents of Clewiston, whose town near Lake Okeechobee grew up with the sugar industry and is threatened by the loss of its main industry. ...more

July 20, 2008

Hernando County's unemployment rate keeps inching upward, but the gap between it and the top spot is widening. ...more

July 19, 2008

Jim Withers sat in the back room of his small barbershop smoking a cigarette and studying his computer screen. ...more

July 13, 2008

As the state is working on the massive Everglades cleanup, a local Audubon Society official warned that one of its tributaries is headed for the same environmental problems plaguing the swamp and Lake Okeechobee. ...more

July 10, 2008