According to recent newspaper articles and TV news reports we are planning to spend these amounts of money: $700 billion for economic bailout, $700 billion for foreign oil and $150 billion a year for the war in Iraq. ...more

September 26, 2008

The Children's Services Council will hold its meeting on Wednesday. One issue on the agenda will be a Truancy Bill Resolution. The Florida State Legislature passed the Bullying Bill this year after four long years of effort. This will be the third year of efforts to persuade the legislature to pass this companion Truancy Bill. The local Highlands County School Board has passed elements of its school regulations pertaining to bullying and truancy to more efficiently manage conduct on campus, but it is the state law and regulations which need to be updated for all 67 counties, to ensure a safe and suitable environment for students to learn in our public schools. Truancy is one significant consequence of bullying. One only has to note the level and intensity of destructive and violent behavior by students on and off campus, in news reports, to know that our educational institutions are in peril. ...more

August 25, 2008

Police are looking for two men who attacked a cab driver at knifepoint, one of whom the cabbie stabbed in the hand. ...more

July 18, 2008

The state will test air quality inside homes and apartments where groundwater contamination is heaviest from the Raytheon plant site in St. Petersburg, officials said. ...more

July 10, 2008

The Federal Aviation Administration said it is looking for the cause of a dent in the nose of a Northwest Airlines Boeing 757 that landed safely at 1:10 p.m. Sunday at Tampa International Airport. ...more

July 8, 2008

The man wanted in connection with Tuesday's slaying of Iris Hernandez-Morales was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder, police said. ...more

June 20, 2008

TAMPA - The man wanted in connection to Tuesday's slaying of Iris Hernandez-Morales was arrested today and charged with first-degree murder, police said. ...more

June 19, 2008

The state of Iowa has suffered Mother Nature's wrath in a way Floridians who suffered through the storms of 2004 and 2005 can relate. After one of the most brutal winters in memory, this spring brought a record number of tornadoes, torrential rain and now a 500-year flood that has left thousands of Iowans homeless. ...more

June 18, 2008

Regarding "Park Rules May Be Out Of Their League" (front page, May 17): On April 20, I left home. On my way out, I drove past 18th Avenue Park where preparation was on for a kickball game. That afternoon was a very different story. ...more

May 24, 2008

At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad. ...more

February 15, 2008