A South Florida family says they were surprised to find their home was accidentally sold at a foreclosure auction. ...more

August 20, 2009

A 55-year-old South Florida man allegedly swindled some $400,000 from two New York women he was engaged to at the same time. Authorities say Paul R. Francois coaxed one to move to Florida after she met him on vacation, and the other into taking out a $100,000 home equity loan on her Elmont, N.Y. place. ...more

August 13, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet have approved Progress Energy Florida's bid to build a nuclear power plant in Levy County. ...more

August 12, 2009

The season's second tropical depression could develop in the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, according to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. ...more

June 27, 2009

A teenager faces charges in a gruesome string of cat mutilations and killings that have horrified his neighbors and shaken animal lovers in two South Florida communities. ...more

June 14, 2009

The article on the front page of Highlands Today on June 10, was a well deserved tribute to Fred Leavitt and the organization he has grown from the ground up here in Highlands County, The Primal Connection. ...more

June 12, 2009

Officials say lightning struck and killed a lawn-care worker in South Florida. ...more

June 8, 2009

A little beetle could cause big problems for Florida's multimillion-dollar avocado industry. ...more

May 10, 2009

Using a vast database that contains more than six million images of criminals, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office today helped south Florida detectives arrest a man wanted in connection to a bank robbery. ...more

May 7, 2009

The South Florida man convicted of dragging a woman for two miles to her death under his van has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. ...more

May 3, 2009