Smaller oranges and fewer per tree mean this season's crop could reap nearly 20 percent less than last season's, mainly because of spotty rainfall and cold weather this year. ...more

December 22, 2009

Sandwiched between the Seminole Heights Post Office and Mauricio Faedo's Bakery, Paula Cortez and her husband, Angelo Ortiz, last month opened a vegetable and fruit stand called Angelo's Produce. ...more

January 28, 2009

What to do and plant in your garden this week ...more

January 19, 2009

The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects Florida's orange crop to be slightly lower than last year. ...more

October 10, 2008

Sometimes you don't know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at 17 and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill. ...more

September 24, 2008

In the dead of night in a small hideaway office in the deserted Capitol, a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal. ...more

August 21, 2008

One look at the cover photo of John Mellencamp, eyes downcast, peering perilously close to his navel, and you know this album is serious business. The title confirms this, and the lyric sheet drives it home relentlessly. ...more

August 14, 2008

POINCIANA - Authorities have refined the description of a girl or young woman detectives say was killed and found burned in extreme northeast Polk County. ...more

November 7, 2007

POINCIANA – Polk County sheriff's detectives have turned up no significant leads in the homicide investigation involving an unidentified female whose charred body was found last week in an isolated area of the county. ...more

November 6, 2007

A charred body found Thursday in an isolated area of Polk County is thought to that of a girl between 15 and 19 years old with light brown or auburn hair with red-dyed streaks and blue extensions, sheriff's officials said today. ...more

November 2, 2007