Baseball fans going to Sunday's Yankees-Pirates spring training game at Steinbrenner Field might want to show up early to catch a dedication ceremony involving dozens of local firefighters. ...more

March 25, 2009

The swagger was there and the confidence was at a crescendo for the Avon Park boy's basketball team, but what was missing after the dust settled in the Class 4A-District 10 tournament opener on Monday was a victory. ...more

February 11, 2009

Senior KC Jones remembers wasn't selected for the Sebring boys basketball team during his sophomore year, but how he's turned the tables to add a force in the middle for the Streaks. ...more

November 21, 2008

At small-town firehouses, in a field in Pennsylvania, at the Pentagon, at ground zero in Manhattan, in Kabul and in Baghdad, people paused to remember a day they will never forget. ...more

September 12, 2008

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed America on so many levels it can be difficult to get a grip on the day's significance. ...more

September 11, 2008

Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, conspiracy theories began to crop up about how it was an "inside job," planned and executed by the U.S. government. ...more

September 11, 2008

Her memories of Sept. 11, 2001, are a blur of confused images, sounds and smells. ...more

September 10, 2008

Her memories of Sept. 11, 2001, are a blur of confused images, sounds and smells. ...more

September 10, 2008

Three billboards in the Orlando area that depict New York's World Trade Center in flames with the words "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat" are the work of a St. Cloud songwriter and commercial painter who is marketing his latest song. ...more

July 16, 2008

PALMETTO — Sitting in the parking lot of Avon Park High School when they were supposed to be warming up for a first-round playoff game wasn't the best of starts for the Avon Park boys basketball team on Tuesday night. "We were waiting for the bus at 3:45 p.m. and we didn't leave until 5:30 p.m. — which is crazy," said AP head coach Luther Clemons about a bus mishap that almost cost the Red Devils the game before they took a shot. ...more

February 7, 2008