Hernando County slipped down a notch in its unemployment ranking - from seventh to eighth. ...more

August 16, 2008

Hernando County is up 8.4 percent; florida has highest unemployment in 13 years ...more

August 16, 2008

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

July 19, 2008

LEHIGH ACRES - A Lehigh Acres man is charged with manslaughter after authorities say he fell asleep on his infant son and suffocated the child. ...more

July 13, 2008

FORT MYERS- Lee County authorities estimate more than 100 people were involved in a ruckus at a southwest Florida gas station. ...more

July 3, 2008

Officials say about 50 mobile homes were damaged but no one was seriously injured when a possible tornado moved through northern Lee County. ...more

June 9, 2008

SEBRING –– Let the games begin. The 2008 Heartland Senior Games, sanctioned by the Florida Sports Foundation, are scheduled for March 4-28 in venues throughout Avon Park and Sebring. Open to amateur athletes age 50 and older, the local qualifiers will advance to the Florida Senior Games State Championships later this year. ...more

February 25, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist promised voters that if Amendment 1 passed Tuesday, it would be the start, not the end of property tax relief in Florida. ...more

January 31, 2008

The United States does not want to pay reparations for slavery because it would have to admit that slavery is wrong. It doesn't want to do that. For instance, there are slaves working on the citrus groves and fruit and vegetable fields here right now. ...more

January 10, 2008

A prison card game dealt police the tip they needed to arrest a man in a killing that occurred nearly three years ago, authorities said Saturday. ...more

October 22, 2007