SEBRING – Broker Chip Boring, of RE/MAX Realty Plus of Sebring, and RE/MAX Realty Plus II of Lake Placid, will sponsor a hot air balloon to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Highlands County's charity event May 30-31. Following last year's successful fundraiser, the second annual "Balloon Glow" will be Friday, May 30, and the "Lift Off Event" will be Saturday, May 31, at the entrance to the Sebring Raceway and Airport. "Young people who attend Boys and Girls Clubs in Florida show higher high school graduation rates and better behavior, resulting in increased lifetime earnings," said Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp. "An investment in our children is an investment in our future. The independent study's results are proof that Florida's Boys and Girls Clubs continue to influence our young people and our economy, both for the better." ...more

May 20, 2008

A West Pasco Special Olympics Pasco County athlete, Rosetta LoBianco, recently returned home from the Special Olympics Florida Athlete Congress, in Tallahassee. ...more

February 9, 2008

A commission designed to help reform the state's juvenile justice system presented a report of recommendations Tuesday to Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp and state legislators. ...more

February 6, 2008

A blueprint commission designed to help reform the state's juvenile justice system presented a report of recommendations today to Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp and state legislators. ...more

February 5, 2008

More than 2,000 people crowded Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s commitment to peace and equality and note the importance of his legacy in this election year. ...more

January 22, 2008

As the Legislature cut $1 billion from Florida's budget last year, one lawmaker wanted the state to sell one of its three planes to save $200,000 annually. ...more

January 7, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP)- Mike Huckabee's first day as Arkansas governor is remembered most for the Four Hour Crisis. Five minutes before Huckabee was to be sworn in, the disgraced outgoing governor, Jim Guy Tucker, tried to wriggle out of his promise to resign. ...more

December 29, 2007

Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp and Bob Butterworth, secretary of the state's Department of Children & Families, were on hand Thursday to recognize Eleanor Hall of Bartow as an official "Point of Light." ...more

November 29, 2007

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue stepped up to a podium outside the state Capitol on Tuesday and led a solemn crowd of several hundred people in a prayer for rain on his drought-stricken state. ...more

November 14, 2007

Senate Republicans are bracing for another potentially costly 2008 retirement, with veteran Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., expected to announce today that he will not seek a seventh term. ...more

October 4, 2007