If you ask Alyssa Franks how she likes running cross country at Wharton High, be prepared for a joyous response. ...more

September 11, 2008

A Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency façade grant helped Larry and Rachel Moore add a back deck and driveway to their Rose Avenue home they purchased about three years ago. ...more

September 9, 2008

The summer vacation season began this year with Americans behind the wheel less. In all, we drove 12.2 billion fewer miles in June than a year earlier, the biggest monthly decrease in a downward trend that began in November. ...more

August 14, 2008

Hillsborough County is often labeled the bellwether of Florida politics. As Hillsborough goes, so goes Florida, observes Susan MacManus, a University of South Florida political scientist. ...more

August 11, 2008

The city council will decide today whether it will turn up the volume on people blasting their stereos all over the neighborhood by making bigger fines for them. ...more

July 28, 2008

If your children brought home grade cards like most Hernando County public schools received Tuesday, you'd be shelling out lots of $5 bills and going out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate. ...more

July 11, 2008

The Vatican ran a deficit in 2007, hurt by the weak dollar in collection baskets from U.S. faithful and steep costs of running its media, the Holy See said Wednesday. ...more

July 10, 2008

Joey Chestnut claimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off. ...more

July 5, 2008

Leaders for Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High will have to decide whether they can afford to provide free meals and turn away students in these tough economic times. ...more

June 25, 2008

Leaders for Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High will have to decide whether they can afford to provide free meals and turn away students in these tough economic times. ...more

June 25, 2008