A 68-year-old Spring Hill man died after he apparently lost consciousness Wednesday afternoon while driving with a female passenger. ...more

September 17, 2009

Our house burned down. Not the one in which we currently reside. And it didn't actually burn down, but it burned badly enough to level it and replace it with something that isn't our house. ...more

March 22, 2009

County commissioners were in agreement Tuesday there is not much they can do to correct neglected improvement projects that had long ago been targeted for South Brooksville. ...more

February 4, 2009

Kristin Sluder wore rubber gloves and a serious look as she measured the nitrates in a water sample dipped from a drainage ditch along the northern edge of Werner Boyce Salt Springs State Park. ...more

January 28, 2009

In a spirit of cooperation, the county and city have launched a committee that meets monthly to examine issues that affect the city of Brooksville. ...more

December 26, 2008

A woman having trouble selling her home near the Raytheon plant has filed a federal lawsuit claiming groundwater contamination from leaking hazardous waste has polluted her irrigation well and hurt the value of her property. ...more

December 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG A St. Petersburg woman who says she has been having trouble selling her home near the Raytheon defense plant has filed a federal lawsuit claiming groundwater contamination from leaking hazardous waste has polluted her irrigation well and hurt the value of her property. Colleen Galligan filed the lawsuit in Tampa on Monday. ...more

December 10, 2008

The drying room at the Highlands County Sheriff's Office is filled with 62 seven-foot tall marijuana plants with an estimated weight of 550 pounds and a value of $420,000. ...more

October 10, 2008

A new report by environmental consultants working for Raytheon says the defense company is not responsible for some of the polluted irrigation wells near its plant in St. Petersburg. ...more

September 2, 2008

Fay just won't quit. The tropical storm that set a record with four landfalls in Florida chugged west across the Gulf Coast on Saturday, and cities from Pensacola to New Orleans prepared for several inches of rain. Late Saturday, the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression. ...more

August 24, 2008