TAMPA -- More than two months after horseman Lawrence Higgins was slain, the investigation continues and his friends from the racetrack continue to mourn. Higgins' friends and family held a memorial service for him Saturday morning at Tampa Bay Downs, a racetrack he frequented. Today, at the second day of live racing at the track's new season, Higgins' former horse trainer remembered Higgins fondly. ...more

December 17, 2008

Kimberly Higgins, 35, one of the victim's four children, described the last time she saw her father at her Oct. 4 wedding in Washington, D.C. ...more

November 7, 2008

When John Beebe heard Lawrence Higgins had been killed, he was devastated. Beebe was friends with the Odessa horseman for at least 10 years. They knew each other from betting – Beebe works at a Maryland racetrack, and Higgins bet there. Beebe said he even had visited Higgins in Florida. ...more

October 22, 2008

The lack of an arrest in the slaying of horseman Lawrence Higgins In odessa has made things worrisome in his neighborhood, the gated community of Citrus Green II in Odessa. ...more

October 16, 2008

The slaying of prominent Odessa horseman Lawrence P. Higgins doesn't appear to have come as the result of a robbery, deputies said today. ...more

October 13, 2008

The homicide of a prominent Odessa horseman has shocked friends in the thoroughbred industry, but investigators remained silent Saturday about the circumstances surrounding his death a day after his body was discovered. ...more

October 12, 2008

One after the other, the speakers talked about Marlene Duffy Young's actions. They cited the acts of kindness, competence and will - carried out in public and private - almost like a litany. ...more

May 31, 2008

WINTER HAVEN - One after the other, the speakers talked about Marlene Duffy Young's actions. They cited the acts of kindness, competence and will — carried out in public and private — almost like a litany. Young helped create Polk's countywide library system. She paid her ill sister's rent each month. She took in battered women. She established a rape recovery center. She served as Winter Haven's first female mayor. She was president of the Florida Association of Counties. She trained a racehorse. She helped protect the green swamp. She raised three children in a strong marriage. ...more

May 30, 2008

After getting a mild surprise from Cool Coal Man and a dominant showing from War Pass, often-loquacious trainer Nick Zito needed only one word to describe his emotions. ...more

February 25, 2008

By edging out Hillary Rodham Clinton for second place in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, John Edwards has kept his second bid for the presidential nomination alive - for now. ...more

January 5, 2008