There's a forest of Christmas trees inside Cookie Robinson's house. But the Victorian-theme, tabletop trees won't be there much longer. ...more

November 22, 2007

SEBRING — What started as a small, goodwill project at one Highlands County school has grown to a big countywide thank you Christmas gesture for U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. ...more

November 21, 2007

Talk Is Cheap The Zephyrhills Jaycees had a booth on Veterans Day with an assortment of Christmas cards for citizens to sign for the troops. The booth was on the main thoroughfare, with the cards displayed on the tables alongside numerous pens and chairs in the shade so people could be comfortable while signing the cards. ...more

November 19, 2007

The lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy in Mississippi in August 1955, riled black America as nothing had done before. But what happened to him in Mississippi had already happened to a black child in Florida a decade earlier, and there was no national outcry for justice. ...more

November 18, 2007

SEBRING — It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and it's barely November. Decorations hang in the stores, commercials advertise the latest toys and Santa Claus even made his first appearance of the season at Wal-Mart on Saturday. Frances Williams and her brother Ron Sykes spent Monday morning shopping for trimmings for their Christmas tree. "We wanted to buy everything while it's still in stock," Williams said, as she loaded blue ornaments into her shopping cart. "They have it out, so why not get it and avoid the rush … But we won't put up the tree until after Thanksgiving." ...more

November 6, 2007

A group of students got a head start on the holiday season by helping design Christmas cards for charity. ...more

October 24, 2007

A group of students got a head start on the holiday season by helping design a batch of Christmas cards for charity. ...more

October 24, 2007

PLANT CITY - Christmas isn't that far away, and a nonprofit group that helps farmworkers is taking orders for Christmas cards featuring artwork of youngsters in its programs. The Redlands Christian Migrant Association hopes to net $20,000 from its ninth annual Christmas card sale, association spokesman Matt Bokor says in an e-mail. ...more

September 25, 2007