Kip O'Neill's Gulf coast neighborhood is overrun with peacocks ...more

December 27, 2009

When Muriel and Harold Haviland decided to move to Florida 50 years ago from Long Island, New York, they were in search of a peaceful, safe place to raise a family. ...more

November 4, 2009

When Muriel and Harold Haviland decided to move to Florida 50 years ago from Long Island, N.Y., they were in search of a peaceful, safe place to raise a family. ...more

November 2, 2009

It seems that everybody is putting his or her own twist on meatloaf. Yes, meatloaf. ...more

March 5, 2009

You can't make this stuff up. On Thursday, as armed guards kept the media from a meeting between the board that operates the city's zoo and its about-to-be-canned director, the about-to-be-canned director's wife was charged with animal cruelty for, authorities said, leaving two dogs alone in a car for more than two hours. ...more

December 21, 2008

The proud peacocks of Micanopy Street know nothing of the trouble they are in. ...more

September 22, 2008

Residents of Weathersfield, a subdivision abutting the Dunedin Cemetery notified city officials several peacocks have been caught by a trapper in their neighborhood and removed. ...more

August 2, 2008

Taylor Morrison is building homes priced from the $199,990s at Channing Park in Lithia, the first community the company has built from the ground up since merging Taylor Woodrow with Morrison Homes in July, says John Hennebery, vice president of sales and marketing. ...more

May 25, 2008

SEBRING — Few places in Florida nurse wild bald eagles back to health, but David Wrede said that Wrede's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center does that. He fixes their wings as well as owls, hawks and geese that are all native to the area. On the side, he even houses a few peacocks, cougars and a lone coyote. Although the three bald eagles at Wrede's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center couldn't be released because they had permanent injuries such as a blind right eye in "Thunder's" case, David Wrede said he was looking for volunteers to help some of the 600 to 1,000 other animals that go through the center each year so they can return to the wild. He and his wife Karen Wrede ran the rehab center at Wilderness Trail south of Sebring for more than 18 years, but David said that they had to slow down because of health problems and they've been focusing mostly on birds. He hoped the volunteers could help him expand the center's efforts with mammals and reptiles. ...more

February 12, 2008

SEBRING –– Visit Highlands County Animal Services today and you'll find two peacocks in a dog pen. You can also see two large hogs in a horse trailer. Plus four rabbits, huddled together in the corner of a wire dog crate. And then Darryl Scott, Animal Control director, can walk you past the dog and cat pens to see the two yearling cows he's holding in a small, wood fenced pen. "Just last week, we had chickens and ducks, too," Scott said. "We were able to get them out, by adoption." ...more

November 2, 2007