PLANT CITY - Durant junior forward Andre Nation brought a capacity crowd to its feet. Nation dazzled with alley oops and two-handed dunks en route to a career-high 31 points, along with 12 rebounds, three blocks and three steals, leading the Cougars past Plant City 63-49 in a Class 5A-District 8 boys basketball game Wednesday. ...more

December 17, 2009

State qualifier Charles Hubbard scored a decisive pin midway through Avon Park's match Tuesday, propelling the Red Devils to a 48-34 win over upstart Frostproof in the first home dual meet of the season. ...more

December 10, 2009

If there were armed guards aboard the Maersk Alabama on April 8, Mike Perry, a chief engineer for the ship who lives in Riverview, says pirates would never have boarded and his captain would never have been taken hostage. ...more

November 19, 2009

It was a day of mixed emotions for the Avon Park youth football fans, as one out of three teams advance to the Super Bowl Sunday. Red was the dominant color for the majority of the day, with hundreds of fans from several teams - the final game of what the AP fans came for brought all of the jubilee. ...more

November 19, 2009

Brett Favre has retired twice in the last 11 months, and he played a full season of football in between. ...more

February 12, 2009

The good news, economist Mark Vitner told Pasco County business leaders Friday, is the recession should bottom out at the end of this year. ...more

January 31, 2009

The aunt of a slain Belleair woman says the family had mixed emotions when they heard the man wanted in connection to her killing had been caught. ...more

January 7, 2009

The 12 state championship volleyball banners hanging in a blue-and-white gym in Tampa speak volumes. ...more

November 23, 2008

O'Donnell and Barbara Walters are trading shots this week. O'Donnell fired off last night on Conan O'Brien's late night talkie with some sarcastic faint praise for Walters' "The View." ...more

November 21, 2008

Thanks to a new online program at King High School, there are no surprises for students or parents at the end of a grading period. ...more

November 12, 2008