The state attorney's office and the sheriff's department are conducting a joint investigation into the activities of the county's fleet department, a move prompted by an expose of alleged kickbacks published by Hernando Today. ...more

November 4, 2009

The state attorney's office and the sheriff's department are conducting a joint investigation into the activities of Hernando County's fleet department, a move prompted by an expose of alleged kickbacks published by Hernando Today. ...more

November 3, 2009

Hernando Today has learned the county audit department, acting on concerns expressed by Department of Public Works Director Charles Mixson, was already conducting an internal investigation ...more

November 2, 2009

What's in a name? If Sci Fi becomes Syfy will viewers be able to find it? A name change is in the works for the Sci Fi Channel. NBC Universal, which owns the science fiction and fantasy network, is set to announce today Sci Fi and its companion Web site (scifi.com) to morph into Syfy — pronounced the same as "Sci Fi" — on July 7. ...more

March 16, 2009

Let's go Rays! Attending four games in a week and clanking my cowbell during the final, playoff-clinching home stand, I felt briefly seduced into feeling "at home" myself, 35 years after leaving Tampa. Not to the point of getting a mohawk, though. ...more

October 5, 2008

None of us have ever lived through an election at a time when 80 percent of voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But now that we're in the thick of it, a few things are clear. From voters, the demand is: Surprise Me Most. For candidates, the lesson is: Weirdness Wins. ...more

September 12, 2008

Most of this is anecdotal. Shoot, all of it is anecdotal, which is troublesome but understandable if you know the system. ...more

September 3, 2008

Tim Grant resigned as Lake Placid High School's head football coach on Friday, three weeks before the start of football camp, and after just one year on the sidelines for Lake Placid. ...more

July 15, 2008

"I brought you a little gift," said the man at Florence Miller's doorstep five years ago, and the Naples resident decided she ought to be hospitable and let him in. ...more

June 29, 2008

Tech. Sgt. Mark Bordwine was setting up for MacDill Air Force Base's annual Air Fest 2008 when a woman walked up to him and handed him a commemorative coin. ...more

June 28, 2008