With a major expansion nearing completion, Highlands County's Children's Advocacy Center will soon truly centralize its staff and most of its agency partners under one roof. ...more

November 19, 2009

Congressional candidate Tom Rooney and his wife, Tara, owned two properties in 2007, and received homestead exemptions for a $410,000 house in Tequesta and a $315,000 house in Jupiter. ...more

September 30, 2008

The last Indigo Coffee drive-through shop came tumbling down recently at Interstate 275 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. By year's end, an office building will begin rising in its place. ...more

September 24, 2008

With Gus Gilchrist's personal trainer, adviser and spokesman Terrelle Woody officially on the University of South Florida payroll, the school submitted Gilchrist's hardship waiver to the NCAA so the 6-foot-10 center can play immediately and not be required to sit out a season after transferring from Maryland. ...more

August 28, 2008

SEBRING — Three major organizers for the July 12-13 Heartland Triathlon who quit last week reconsidered that decision and are back running Highlands County's largest fitness event. Cherie Starr, official race director; Jeff Carlson, former Sebring City Council member and a candidate for county commissioner; plus two-time Heartland Triathlon winner and international triathlete Patrick High have decided to return. ...more

May 6, 2008

There's life after death for Eva Longoria Parker in "Over Her Dead Body," her first big-screen movie as the top-billed star. ...more

January 31, 2008

Bobby Petrino resigned as Atlanta Falcons coach Tuesday, having lasted only 13 games with the NFL team, to take the head coaching position at Arkansas. ...more

December 12, 2007

During a booster function in Jacksonville on Tuesday night, Florida State president T.K. Wetherell confirmed the worst-kept secret in FSU history. Wetherell told a Jacksonville TV reporter who contributes stories regularly to a popular FSU fan Web site, warchant.com, that "there's a plan in place'' for FSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to replace FSU coach Bobby Bowden when the 78-year-old Bowden finally retires. Multiple sources confirmed this to The Tribune on Wednesday. ...more

December 5, 2007

One of the world's best-known curmudgeons, Ebenezer Scrooge, won't take the stage for Masque Community Theatre's children's production of "A Christmas Carol." Audiences instead will meet Eliza Scrooge, a female version of Charles Dickens' classic character. ...more

December 1, 2007

One of the world's best-known curmudgeons, Ebenezer Scrooge, won't take the stage for Masque Community Theatre's children's production of "A Christmas Carol." Audiences instead will meet Eliza Scrooge, a female version of Charles Dickens' classic character. ...more

November 28, 2007