While the declaration of a nation was inked in parchment, it was the blood of the common man that ensured its delivery. ...more

November 11, 2009

If he wanted to, Simeon Rice could stand on the sideline and count the crowd accurately within minutes. ...more

November 1, 2009

You could have been walking into the Bucs' locker room. There was Michael Pittman over here, and Matt Bryant over there, and Dexter Jackson, and Paris Warren, and Frank Murphy, and Anthony Davis and ... ...more

October 30, 2009

Robinson jumped to an early first-half lead, and capitalized on two fourth-quarter turnovers to earn a 24-21 win at Sarasota Booker on Friday night. Booker (4-4, 1-2) had four turnovers overall, and also had four dropped passes in the fourth quarter of the Class 3A-District 11 game. ...more

November 1, 2008

FORT MYERS — Tampa Prep's next-to-last tuneup for next week's district tournament turned into a rout, as the Terrapins easily defeated Fort Myers Evangelical Christian 3-0 Friday night. ...more

January 18, 2008

Experience earned Fort Myers Evangelical Christian a third straight trip to the 2A state volleyball tournament, as the Sentinels defeated Tampa Prep 25-17, 25-20 and 25-20 in the Region 3 title match on Saturday. ...more

November 11, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Interlake Boulevard is undergoing a sprucing up. Town workers were planting some of 127 Sable Palm trees in a row of three, on Friday, west of U.S. 27 on Interlake Boulevard. The downtown improvements were paid for with a $25,000 Urban and Community Forestry Grant from the Florida Division of Forestry. Sable or cabbage palms are Florida's state tree and several non-native species of trees were removed to make way for the new towering sentinels. ...more

October 28, 2007