The Hail Mary was batted down. The last desperate attempt by the Nature Coast Technical High football booster club to save the Sharks' season ended Friday afternoon at the Hernando County Courthouse. ...more

November 22, 2008

Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday. ...more

November 2, 2008

Rappers often refer to themselves and members of their posses as soldiers. ...more

October 7, 2008

Art Monk and Gary Zimmerman spent most of their careers trying to stay in the background. ...more

August 2, 2008

When Steve Garvey flies into Tampa International Airport for an occasional speaking engagement, the plane touches down about a mile from his childhood home. ...more

June 29, 2008

She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. ...more

May 6, 2008

SEBRING — Construction crews began work on Phase Two of the Sebring Parkway in July, doing mostly off-road work near Sebring High School. On Jan. 2, those construction crews will start the serious road building work, causing the complete shut-down of Eucalyptus Street, between Center and Grapefruit streets, for at least four and possibly as many as six months. This section of the parkway will replace the current two-lane Eucalyptus Street with a five-lane roadway with turning lanes. Phase Two of the parkway also will convert the current Highlands Avenue into a five-lane roadway, running all the way to U.S. 27. ...more

December 20, 2007