Republican John McCain on Thursday spiced up a cross-state bus tour aimed at keeping vote-rich Florida from swinging to the Democrats by accusing rival Barack Obama of saying "anything to get elected." ...more

October 23, 2008

Say what we will about the crush of political advertisements on television and radio and the madcap statewide barnstorming by GOP frontrunners hoping Florida launches them insurmountably toward the nomination, this culminating day should prove fascinating. ...more

January 29, 2008

SEBRING — Downtown Sebring has had three major commercial fires in three months, two of which destroyed buildings from the 1920s. Sebring Fire Chief Brad Batz said the wood structures of many of the city's older buildings can lead to large-scale fires. "The wood itself is not a fire hazard but if it is ignited, the old wood is so dry that it burns really hot and really fast," Batz said. The Jan. 17 fire that destroyed the assembly area of Park Place Truss, located at 454 Park St., is still under investigation. The building may have been the oldest structure in Sebring and was previously used as a lumber yard. ...more

January 23, 2008

TAMPA - Investigators from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and the Occupational Safety & Health Administration are looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man fatally crushed by machinery at a lumber yard this morning. ...more

October 29, 2007