A sandy shoreline runs outside Patrick Wiese's front door. A white crane toes through gentle blue-green waters as the sun beams overhead. The view of downtown is spectacular, the fishing good and the rent free. ...more

March 27, 2009

If you can stand (and generate) the heat, you can whip up a dandy stir-fry. ...more

July 29, 2008

The answers may lie within the black Converse shoes. A 62-year-old man told the Pasco County Sheriff's Office that someone broke in to his home early Sunday, and more than a dozen weapons, including a samurai sword and firearms, were stolen. ...more

February 19, 2008

Investigators are trying to determine how a mother and her two young children were overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that spread no farther than a storage room at the motel where they lived. ...more

January 16, 2008

How were a mother and her two small children overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that failed to spread beyond a storage room at the motel where they lived? ...more

January 15, 2008

AVON PARK — An Avon Park man received three jolts from a Taser on Sunday before he gave in to police commands to show his hands after a domestic squabble at his home, according to Avon Park police. ...more

December 6, 2007