The body of a 57-year-old man who jumped off a pontoon boat for a swim Saturday evening has been found in Lake Pierce, Polk County deputies said today. ...more

May 11, 2009

Fillets by the gallon bucket? Ice chests full of fish? A fish fry to feed the neighborhood? There aren't many species of fish left in Florida that permit such prodigious harvests, but the black crappie, also called speckled perch, is one. And December through April is speck time. ...more

December 14, 2008

Soon, all those campaign signs and candidates at civic meetings will be gone. ...more

November 4, 2008

Yellow Jacket Campground: A large, wooded riverfront campground, Yellow Jacket has a bath house, laundry facilities and heated swimming pool, and picnic tables and fire rings at each site and cabin. It's about 140 miles north of Tampa. ...more

August 24, 2008

Yellow Jacket Campground: A large, wooded riverfront campground, Yellow Jacket has a bath house, laundry facilities and heated swimming pool, and picnic tables and fire rings at each site and cabin. It's about 140 miles north of Tampa. ...more

August 23, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Having spent more than 3,000 nights in motels during his vast travels, Irving Baker thinks he knows what people like in overnight lodging. He was born and raised in New York, but ran away from home at age 16 and hitchhiked to Wauchula. He spent a year there picking cucumbers, oranges, and planting cabbages and then joined the Marine Corps. Loving to travel, he has been in every capital of the United States. He drove trucks, accumulating 2.5 million miles by the time he semi retired in 1994 as a teamster. It was then he settled down. For five years he owned a restaurant and a golf course in St. Paris, OH. ...more

November 4, 2007