Laurel Wittman and her husband, Eduardo Lopes, are examples of a rare species: successful short-sale buyers. ...more

May 13, 2008

As it does about every two months, a 400-foot barge that hauled molten sulfur from Texas made a slight side trip Wednesday to The Florida Aquarium to disgorge 300,000 gallons of saltwater. ...more

April 10, 2008

My parents purchased their first home in 1942, when I was 6 years old, on the east side of Toledo, Ohio. It consisted of a small living room, a little kitchen, two very tiny bedrooms, a miniature bathroom and a basement. ...more

February 19, 2008

A fire destroyed a house, killing three children and burying them when part of the house collapsed, a fire official said Wednesday. ...more

February 14, 2008

SEBRING — Mention the USO, and most people, well, those of a certain age anyway, think of Bob Hope. So does Clarence Neeley, 63, lately of Lake Placid. "I was in the Army at Long Binh," he recalled. "It was 1969. Just prior to the Christmas show." Acting Sgt. Neeley was driving a Jeep for a screw-up second lieutenant in public relations. They were going to USO headquarters. "So maybe that's what he was there for. To get literature. To make flyers for the USO show." "I was just awed to see that kind of setting during a war," Neeley remembered. "We were at a presidential palace in Saigon. "I talked to all the pretty women there, while he was making his story," Neeley said. That only took 4-5 hours, then Neeley returned to his regular job, installing and repairing communications cable. ...more

February 11, 2008

SEMINOLE A masked armed man robbed employees of a Big Lots store last night, escaping with an undisclosed amount of cash, authorities said. ...more

February 9, 2008

A toddler figures out how to open the back door unbeknownst to his father, slips outside, climbs over a gate and drowns in the family pool. ...more

January 18, 2008

Sarasota County sheriff's deputies are looking for two men who entered the back door of the Palm Plaza Bingo Hall and confronted three employees. ...more

January 1, 2008

SEBRING — Three women were robbed at gunpoint Monday at a coin laundry in the Town Square shopping center, located at 1118 Lakeview Drive, in Sebring. It was just before 1:29 a.m. Monday, when police were dispatched to the laundromat responding to the robbery call. ...more

December 27, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man had an axe stuffed in his pants, a flashlight in his rear pocket and a crack pipe with faux rocks of cocaine in his shirt pocket as he tried stealing a box of liquor from an Ybor City business Saturday, police say. ...more

December 23, 2007