Ocala's 84-year-old Ritz Historic Inn, a 32-suite, Spanish Mission architecture landmark on the National Registry of Historic Places, is scheduled to be auctioned off at its site on East Silver Springs Boulevard at 11 a.m. Jan. 21. ...more

January 7, 2010

Cypress Gardens will reopen March 28 with a new management team led by Bill Sims, who worked at the Winter Haven attraction with founder Dick Pope Sr. and also headed Silver Springs in Ocala and Weeki Wachee Springs in Spring Hill. ...more

February 25, 2009

Super Bowl Will Use Renewable Power Super Bowl XLIII and the five-day NFL Experience festival will be powered with electricity made from renewable resources in Florida, Tampa Electric Co. said Wednesday. ...more

December 18, 2008

Cypress Gardens patrons with season passes will be admitted free to Silver Springs in Ocala through Dec. 31 – with the exception of Christmas Day, when the Marion County attraction is closed. ...more

December 17, 2008

Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven is offering $15 discount admission to enter the park after 4 p.m. on Oct. 24 to bolster attendance during the slow fall visitors season. ...more

October 6, 2008

Three months ago, Guy Distaffen switched Internet providers, lured from his cable company to his phone company by a year of free service on a two-year contract. But soon the company quietly updated its policies to say it would limit his Internet activity each month. ...more

August 23, 2008

NSJGA Results ...more

July 29, 2008

Our governor is staged to sign orders to execute five who are on death row. If he were to sign five each day, five days per week, in only about 17 weeks the backlog could be eliminated. There is a down side to this, however. There is perhaps one chance in a thousand that an innocent person would be executed. Absolutely nothing done by human beings is perfect, only degrees of perfection. ...more

July 17, 2008

Gary Moss bought his first vintage Hawaiian shirt in 1976 at a New Jersey antiques show to replace a sweaty golf shirt on a humid summer day. He took a fancy to it and began buying more at shows and shops. ...more

November 20, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY - "Master Drew," the man authorities say entered into a five-year "sex slave" contract with a 19-year-old woman in July, is facing additional charges in the case. ...more

September 20, 2007