The Arizona Republic, on health care reform: There is a lot wrong with the current state of affairs in American health care. But the rapid rise in costs - including a 131 percent rise in employer-sponsored premiums in just the past 10 years - is what drives this current fight for reform. ...more

November 17, 2009

This week, athletes from all over the world are converging on Clearwater for the 2009 Foster Grant Ironman Championship. ...more

November 11, 2009

A Sebring woman remained in jail Wednesday on a $15,000 bond after being arrested Monday for allegedly battering her grandmother. ...more

March 26, 2009

A government of the people, for the people and by the people. We are no longer a democratic government. Somewhere along the line, we have a dictator type of rule, where those we have elected, "our employees," have taken control. ...more

March 17, 2009

The plans for a sparkling new Holiday Inn Express were under way two years ago and construction began less than a year later. ...more

March 6, 2009

Name of Business: JR's Internet Cafe Address of Business: ...more

February 22, 2009

SEBRING A Burbank, Calif., man accused of killing his wife waived his right to a speedy trial at a Thursday pretrial conference. ...more

February 19, 2009

Joey Burns and Cail Clark are best friends who haven't spoken in more than two years. ...more

December 22, 2008

For some people in southwestern Pasco County, the turmoil roiling the world's credit market is forcing them to put their hopes for an end to a long-running problem on hold. Many customers of the privately run Aloha Utilities were pleased when the state-chartered Florida Governmental Utility Authority brokered a deal under which Aloha would, in effect, be absorbed into Pasco County Utilities. For years customers complained - to the county, the Florida Public Service Commission and pretty much anyone who would listen - about the discolored and smelly "black" drinking water that comes out of their taps. They are confident that the county will fix the problem once it gains operational control over the Aloha system via the FGUA purchase. ...more

December 17, 2008

Bad economic news flooded in from all directions Friday, as state economists predicted tax collections would come up short by $1.4 billion and new figures showed that unemployment had soared to 7 percent. ...more

November 22, 2008