The Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions, which featured some of the best high school club lacrosse teams in North America fighting it out for the national championship in Wesley Chapel last weekend, doesn't need to look for another site next year. ...more

January 9, 2008

Kenya's president threatened a tough crackdown Monday as rioters rampaged for a third day to protest what they called his sham re-election, a bloody convulsion threatening what has been East Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. ...more

January 1, 2008

SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office resumed its search at the county landfill Thursday morning for a discarded baby. Investigators were in their third day of searching the landfill for a possible fetus or full-term baby thrown out by a 24-year-old Lake Placid woman after she had it about 1 a.m. Friday in her home. Sheriff Susan Benton said about 9 a.m. Thursday that deputies were having a briefing on the case and establishing a work order for the day. Fresh cadaver search dogs from other counties are arriving to aid in the search, she said. By 11:30 a.m. investigators were regrouping and "taking a new approach," Benton said. "They're going to be moving the garbage to a clean area to be going through it by hand." Benton said at the very least it is a misdemeanor to dispose of human remains in this manner, however it could range from a misdemeanor to a felony, depending on what is found. ...more

November 29, 2007

Today is the third day after the full moon and also the tail end of a front which moved through our area slowly over the last three days. This is not good news for the fishermen. However, there is some hope if he knows where the fish have been recently, with an exact knowledge of the right place and time. Temperatures have been dropping, which is promising news since it means the pre-staging of bass starts soon if it already has not. On many lakes, reports of spawning bass being caught are circulating in several bait stores and fish camps. ...more

October 28, 2007

They Deserve Raise Regarding 'Pasco Should Water Down Fire-Rescue Union Demands' (Our Opinion, Oct. 23): ...more

October 27, 2007