Highlands County Habitat for Humanity looks to expand from its typical single-family home construction with a downtown Sebring workforce housing townhouse project. ...more

August 31, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — Two more teenagers have been arrested in connection with a deadly melee outside a house party in late July. ...more

August 29, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - The latest sign of how the weak economy is impacting the school district manifested itself today at teacher contract negotiations. ...more

August 28, 2008

BRADENTON - A man who is a suspect in an Aug. 18 robbery was arrested Wednesday on several unrelated felony charges as deputies tried to execute a search warrant. ...more

August 28, 2008

Turnout in today's primary is expected to be low even though an unusually large array of local Sarasota offices are on the ballot. ...more

August 26, 2008

Dane showed her feisty side at first. The caged 250-pound African lioness spread her jaw, displaying her lethal teeth. Unfazed, her caretakers rubbed her soft face and patted her back. ...more

August 20, 2008

Tens of thousands of students in a southwest Florida school district who used an online Princeton Review program to study for the state's annual assessment test inadvertently had their names, birth dates and test scores published on the Web. ...more

August 20, 2008

Thousands of students in Sarasota accidentally had their names, birth dates, and test scores published on a Princeton Review Web site. ...more

August 19, 2008

It's been a breezy and dry start to the day for much of Sarasota County this morning. ...more

August 19, 2008

Forecasters Sunday extended a hurricane watch north to Tarpon Springs as Tropical Storm Fay grazed the southern coast of Cuba and headed on a path that could take the storm into the western edge of Pinellas County as a hurricane. ...more

August 18, 2008