Sgt. Sally Vega's ability to speak Spanish makes her an asset to the Avon Park Police Department, whether in gaining the confidence of suspects who can't speak English or catching those who only pretend that they don't. ...more

December 13, 2009

Pasco County detectives have released new details about two recent unrelated homicides and are asking for the public's help in solving them. ...more

December 11, 2009

Hernando High grad Kyle Swanston has moved on to professional basketball in Finland. ...more

December 5, 2009

A Lake Placid man allegedly struck his 69-year-old mother-in-law several times and locked all her clothes, a laptop and phone wires in his bedroom after a Monday morning argument. ...more

November 28, 2009

Science teacher Kathryn Bylsma noticed something during the years as she tried to engage her middle school students in their lessons. ...more

November 8, 2009

The season came to an abrupt end for the Avon Park boys soccer team on Tuesday, and head coach Craig Morris couldn't help but feel a bit frustrated. ...more

January 29, 2009

This is for Little Big Man. Across the Pacific, in Uwajima, Ehime prefecture, on the Japanese island of Shikoku, where Akinori Iwamura was born 29 years ago, they would have partied until dawn after his big Friday night if it wasn't already 9 in the morning Saturday. Japan is 13 hours ahead of Tropicana Field. The Rays are two games ahead of the White Sox in the AL Division Series. ...more

October 4, 2008

Two French exchange students from the international student exchange program Echanges Culturels Internationaux, Sandy Promonet, 15, and Lauren Seynaeve, 14, found common ground recently with local girls who like to twirl batons. ...more

August 13, 2008

BRADENTON - Eduardo Garcia Roves was outside the Save-A-Lot grocery store on 14th Street on April 7 when a teenager ran up to him, grabbed him and tried to slip on handcuffs. ...more

May 4, 2008

Writing on a whiteboard and offering an animated lecture, Zach Cronin is teaching principles of macroeconomics to 30 or so students, about half of them from outside the United States. ...more

January 31, 2008