Roads were closed for five hours Thursday in Hendry County as hazmat crews cleaned up manganese nitrate and iron nitrate that fell from a Lake Placid truck driver's rig. ...more

August 28, 2009

A 12-year-old girl died this morning after she was thrown from a vehicle on an Interstate 75 overpass and plummeted to the busy U.S. 301 beneath, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

August 13, 2009

Clowns. So old-fashioned. Bounce houses. Fun but done. Three 50-inch plasma TVs and the latest video games rolling right up to your child's birthday party. Take that Mr. and Mrs. Jones. ...more

April 29, 2009

Troy Donaldson today earned the title of Pasco County Employee of the Year. County Commission Chairman Jack Mariano presented the proclamation to Donaldson for his bravery helping a traffic accident victim on July 30, 2008. ...more

February 24, 2009

Donna Byrne lost her job in Arcadia a couple of months ago, so she decided to go to Texas – on horseback. ...more

February 10, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The path to success for Gulf coach Travis DeWalt is a pretty simple route. ...more

January 10, 2009

Not long into "Twilight," the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) sits in the cafeteria at her new school in tiny Forks, Wash. She's an awkward kid trying to fit in. And then in walks Edward (Robert Pattinson), and the two see each other for the first time, and they can't stop looking. That's when the hundreds of teenage girls at the screening I attended began shrieking. We're talking Beatles-at-Shea Stadium sort of shrieking. ...more

November 20, 2008

"I really hate bobber fishing," captain Rick Grassett admitts as he picks up a rod with what has to be called, well, a bobber. "But sometimes, that's what it takes to catch bigger fish." ...more

November 16, 2008

Detectives are looking for several people who together siphoned 400 gallons of diesel fuel from a Lake Alfred gas station on June 12. Deputies say a pickup truck and three large rigs pulled up to the BP station, 6600 County Road 557, and several people got out over the underground storage tanks pretending to repair the pickup, said Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Rodgers. ...more

June 20, 2008

If you think gas is expensive, be thankful you're not a trucker. Filling up an 18-wheel, 80,000-pound leviathan can top $1,300 these days. ...more

May 26, 2008