The days of "Safe is Death" have reached their demise for Lightning defense. ...more

September 23, 2008

Shane Allen has a personality that instantly captivates people. That's what the organizer of an upcoming fundraiser says about the 14-year-old Dade City resident who has endured six operations in less than a year. ...more

September 19, 2008

Zenon Konopka stepped onto the ice for Thursday's first of two scrimmage sessions and two minutes after the clock started he picked out the biggest guy he could find and made a bee line. ...more

September 19, 2008

Rich Rodriguez walked off the field as a winner for the first time at Michigan. ...more

September 7, 2008

East Bay coach Brian Thornton is understandably optimistic concerning 2008. After losing only nine seniors - seven starters - the Indians look like a team poised to earn a playoff berth. Nowhere else does this veteran team look stronger than in the center of its defense. ...more

September 4, 2008

Big Brothers Big Sisters has big dreams for local community. ...more

August 25, 2008

Two years ago, Kenny Toce began his high school football career not sure where he'd fit in. He came out for River Ridge's junior varsity team willing to do anything, and play anywhere, just to contribute. ...more

July 17, 2008

Kyle Willard always wanted a 1995 Honda Civic. For 14 months, while he served as an Army infantryman in Iraq, he told his wife to get him that car. ...more

July 4, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Three men indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder charges remained in Highlands County Jail on Tuesday, in connection with the murder and attempted murder of two Lake Placid men. News of the Monday indictments of Andrew John Kalinowski, 21, of 917 Lake June Road, Lake Placid, and Shane Ryan Fannin, 21, of 12075 Payne Road, Sebring, came first Tuesday. ...more

July 2, 2008

SEBRING — Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office have arrested the driver supposedly involved in the June 7 shooting death of a Lake Placid man and the shooting injury of a second man. Shane Ryan Fannin, 21, of 12075 Payne Road, Sebring, was arrested on charges Wednesday in connection with the murder of Walter Enrique Vilchez and attempted murder of Jose Franklin Escalante, at 242 Phoenix Ave., in Lake Placid. Fannin was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, and was being held without bond. ...more

June 18, 2008