Polk County sheriff's deputies are looking for two men who robbed a Winter Haven convenience store at gunpoint. ...more

November 6, 2009

and the annual Hi Neighbor! event. ...more

November 4, 2009

A bill proposed by Sen. Ronda Storms of Valrico to abandon the longstanding requirement that legal ads and notices be published in a local newspaper would make it harder for citizens to know what their governments are doing. ...more

March 30, 2009

A hesitant city council decided late Monday to put off a decision on handing over candidate filing duties to the county elections supervisor. ...more

January 7, 2009

The 2010 City Council election would be under the purview of the county elections office if the council passes a resolution up for consideration today. ...more

January 5, 2009

Israel released 224 Palestinian prisoners Monday in a gesture to moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and jubilant detainees waving Palestinian flags jumped on the roof of one of the buses carrying them to freedom. ...more

December 16, 2008

Don't write its obituary. Because the Christian Science Monitor, a venerable 100-year publication, isn't dead. ...more

November 8, 2008

Joe Sharkey of Tarpon Springs says the City Commission did not act in an impartial, quasi-judicial manner in declaring the concurrency certificate for the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter on the Anclote River no longer valid. ...more

November 1, 2008

A Maine TV news anchor who bears a resemblance to the Republican vice presidential nominee says she's been getting "hate mail and nasty phone calls" from viewers who think she's trying to copy Sarah Palin's signature style. ...more

September 24, 2008

Try To Be Balanced Regarding "Palin's Speech Excites Some, Leaves Others Unimpressed" (Letters, Sept. 6): ...more

September 12, 2008