A proposed development for land slated to be annexed could one day double the population of Avon Park, but some Lake Byrd residents have concerns that lake access would be opened up to thousands of residents. ...more

January 28, 2009

They say football is a game of inches, but sometimes it's a game of bounces. ...more

October 12, 2008

In less than a month, the mood needle on the Washington Redskins has swung from overwhelmed to overjoyed. ...more

September 30, 2008

You don't have to wonder much longer what it will be like when the moment actually arrives. ...more

September 20, 2008

In the early 1930s, mealtime at the Children's Home was most often a hectic event. The Children's Home was Tampa's orphanage on Florida Avenue. It is where I grew up, from 1926, when I was an infant, to 1943 when I was 18 and joined the U.S. Navy during World War II. ...more

September 7, 2008

What Rodel Laborte could not forget was the screaming of fellow passengers. ...more

June 25, 2008

It was pandemonium. On what should have been a happy occasion for local students, dozens of angry parents and family members waited outside guarded doors at the Hernando High School gymnasium on Tuesday, clamoring to gain access the graduation ceremony taking place inside. ...more

June 12, 2008

Lack of space angers parents attending Hernando High graduation ceremony. ...more

June 11, 2008

Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death - but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder. ...more

November 16, 2007