Walking through the auditorium of Common Ground Christian Church in Seminole Heights on Tuesday, the Rev. Danny Schaffner noticed one of the digital thermostats was blank. ...more

November 8, 2007

TAMPA - Walking through the auditorium of Common Ground Christian Church in Seminole Heights on Tuesday, Pastor Danny Schaffner noticed one of the thermostats was blank. ...more

November 7, 2007

POINCIANA - A home invasion and armed robbery led Polk County sheriff's deputies to uncover a grow house operation Sunday. ...more

November 5, 2007

A 63-year-old man was arrested Wednesday by vice narcotics detectives after they discovered 286 marijuana plants inside his Coleridge Estates home, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

November 2, 2007

SEBRING — Copper, the metal used to make pennies, has become a valuable commodity to thieves. Across the country, copper and brass theft has become an epidemic because of the money that can be made off selling the metals to scrap yards. And while copper theft from abandoned buildings, homes and businesses may take place in Highlands County, it hasn't become a trend, according to local authorities. "It's an ongoing problem, and every once in a while you see a rash in cases," said Maj. Mark Schrader, of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. "I wouldn't say that we have a large number of cases involving it, though." ...more

October 26, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Members of Living Faith Baptist Church have toiled for the past five years to raise money for a permanent home, hoping to move in Nov. 1. Then thieves and vandals struck recently, delaying the move-in day and upsetting the congregation, but not shaking their faith. ...more

October 20, 2007

SEBRING — Five city buildings will soon be retrofitted with technology to reduce its $65,778 annual energy bill, and the city isn't pay a dime to make it happen. Ewald Probst, owner of Energy Saving Systems, said his company will supply and install energy-saving equipment at their cost and will share in the energy bill savings over a five-year period to recoup the costs. ...more

October 18, 2007

SEBRING — Two houses along W. L. Kirkland Street in Avon Park sit in an otherwise vacant, large field near Lake Anoka, on the site of an unfinished development. Nearby, resident Jim Windsor believes the problem lies right between the two, or rather, there isn't enough space between the houses. "You put too many homes so close like that you're going to create a ghetto," Windsor feared. "That's not going to make it good for anybody, the town or the neighbors." ...more

October 9, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The stuffy air, lingering ripeness and sweltering temperature inside - 90 degrees at 5:30 a.m. - told the folks at T&D Mechanical Services what they needed to know about Leto's field house. ...more

September 20, 2007

Deep inside Sunray Elementary in Holiday, behind a door few people open, cutting-edge technology is cooling the air that circulates through the school. ...more

September 16, 2007