TAMPA - Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies this morning arrested a 42-year-old man and charged him with burglarizing seven businesses in eastern Hillsborough over the course of a month. ...more

December 17, 2007

As Steven Green remains incapacitated in a New York hospital, a team of managers is working to prevent collapse of the real estate investor's company before he can pay more than $4 million in court-ordered restitution. ...more

December 11, 2007

TAMPA - As multimillionaire real estate investor Steven Green remains incapacitated in a New York hospital, a team of managers at his company are working feverishly to prevent the company from collapsing before the entrepreneur can pay more than $4 million in court-ordered restitution, according to testimony at a federal hearing this morning. ...more

December 10, 2007

LAKE PLACID — A Lake Placid woman, who sheriff's detectives say threw her baby into the trash –– which led to a massive search at the county landfill –– was being held in the Highlands County Jail on a $150,000 bail Tuesday and for immigration authorities to pick her up. ...more

December 4, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Highlands County sheriff's detectives arrested a 24-year-old Lake Placid woman Tuesday who they say threw her baby away in a trash bag that has been the subject of a massive search at a county landfill, but the charges were unrelated. ...more

December 4, 2007

Imagine you are a teenage foster child who has been in the system so long you have little or no memory of your biological parents. ...more

December 4, 2007

Willie Hayes was a Vietnam veteran who proudly served his country, won several medals and earned himself a plot at a veterans cemetery upon his death two weeks ago. ...more

October 20, 2007

Tara called my XM radio show distressed about her debt. But unlike many people who complain about the bills they allowed to mount, much of her debt was not her fault. ...more

October 14, 2007

personal and corporate income taxes, the payroll tax for Social Security, and the estate and gift tax. These would be replaced by something called the FairTax, a 23 percent national retail sales tax on virtually everything you buy, including many things that are not presently taxed by state sales taxes. ...more

October 1, 2007

LAKE PLACID — It's still an unsolved mystery, what happened that night in 1997 when a call came to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. Lt. John Chess recalls, dimly because it was 10 years ago. His recollection and the murder files, he says, don't match author John Bowe's book, "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy." (Hardcover, 336 pages. Price: $25.95) But Chess agrees with the premise of the book, that indentured servitude certainly does exist today, because he's a veteran police officer. "This has been going on for years," Chess said. ...more

September 30, 2007