The city council voted Monday against a staff recommendation to raise property taxes and kept Zephyrhill's millage rate at 5.57 mills. ...more

July 29, 2009

Florida was a landslide pick to repeat as Southeastern Conference champions. All but one of 64 media members voting at the league's media days picked the Gators to win the title. Mississippi received one vote in balloting released Friday. ...more

July 24, 2009

Turn it down Brooksville. The city council approved an ordinance Monday that allows impoundment for code violations, including loud car stereos. ...more

July 23, 2009

Praising and prodding Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the nation's health insurance system is required to head off instability to families, industry and the government itself. ...more

July 15, 2009

Well, we've done it again. We have spent another year in freedom and opportunity - arguing all the while about how free, how much opportunity and the best way to guarantee both - and arrived back at the anniversary of the founding of our nation. We tend to take this for granted but definitely shouldn't. ...more

July 4, 2009

A Senate committee has approved opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling within 10 miles to the Florida Panhandle and within 45 miles off the rest of the state's coastline. ...more

June 9, 2009

"American Idol" sponsor AT&T says a few overeager company employees helped Arkansas fans vote by text at viewing parties — but didn't influence the final results. ...more

May 27, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Two physical education teachers who began offering a private before- and after-school child care program at San Antonio Elementary this school year will get the opportunity to continue the service in 2009-10. ...more

May 20, 2009

The Senate has voted to prohibit credit card companies from arbitrarily raising an individual's interest rate and charging many of the exorbitant fees. ...more

May 19, 2009

I am sure there are many righteous souls who are paying for God to send rain, which we so desperately need. The governor of Georgia asked his citizens to pray for rain a few years ago, and the next day the rains came. ...more

May 10, 2009