The crowd let out a whoop when Principal Patti Girard cut a ribbon made of recycled bottles and soda cans Monday at Learning Gate Community School. ...more

May 20, 2008

School board members have approved a controversial boundary change despite parents' complaints that they were not informed about the plan. However, board members did change procedure so future boundary proposals will be presented to all affected parents. ...more

April 15, 2008

Travelers know what it means for a hotel to be rated with "three stars," or maybe "four diamonds." ...more

February 23, 2008

When Ellen Coates started looking for a new house, she knew she wanted a large kitchen, lots of builder upgrades and a maintenance-free neighborhood. ...more

February 16, 2008

A noted sales and marketing consultant will be here later this month to offer pointers on making sales during slow economic times. Presented by the Sales and Marketing Council of the Pasco Building Association, Charles Clarke III will speak during a sales seminar to take place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26. ...more

February 9, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - About an hour before authorities say Michael King abducted Denise Lee from her North Port home, he was at a Sarasota County gun range with another man, practicing his shooting with a 9mm pistol, the same type of weapon that killed Lee. ...more

January 24, 2008

Hours before Michael Lee King was captured Thursday, police entered his North Port home, prompted by a harrowing 911 call in which Denise Amber Lee could be heard crying and begging to be set free. ...more

January 22, 2008

Chancey Design Partnership had plans set for its 20,000-square-foot structure at the prominent corner of Seventh Avenue and 13th Street. ...more

January 12, 2008

My True Beauty Fashion Show will feature students in the etiquette and manners program offered by the nonprofit organization It's All About Kids. ...more

December 29, 2007

In the architectural renderings, Prime Meridian Center is 20 stories of cool blue arched glass, banded with strips of precast concrete the color of sand. ...more

December 12, 2007