The board of directors of Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative is going to be looking for a new executive director - about a year after conducting a search to replace the previous director. ...more

March 1, 2009

MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL   All six local programs are seeded and begin play Tuesday on crowning the next (unofficial) county champion on Nov. 4. ...more

October 25, 2008

It was time for candidates to break out the green feathers in their caps. ...more

October 17, 2008

SOFTBALL The county's reining two-time Player of the Year and recent Springstead High graduate, Becky Powell, finds comfort in signing with Polk County's Warner Southern College. ...more

June 13, 2008

A state panel voted unanimously not to keep embattled medical examiner Charles Siebert on the job Saturday, saying he hadn't complied with an order to have an independent review of his work. ...more

December 30, 2007