"Irreplaceable," by Stephen Lovely (Voice, $24.95) ...more

March 8, 2009

It was a half-hour a deaf couple likely won't ever forget. At 10:30 p.m. Thursday, visitors rang a special doorbell that summoned Ralph Prezioso, 86, to his front door in the 5000 block of Ixora Street. ...more

May 31, 2008

ZEPHYRHILLS - It was a half-hour an elderly couple likely will never forget. At 10:30 p.m. Thursday, visitors summoned an 86-year-old man to his front door at 5351 Ixora St. When he opened the door, two guns were pointed at him, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office spokesman. According to the sheriff's office, the two men behind the guns led the man into his living room, where his 77-year-old wife was sleeping in a recliner. The intruders put masking tape over the mouths of husband and wife, bound their hands and told them to keep quiet. ...more

May 30, 2008

SEBRING — A call to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office regarding a missing 3-year-old boy ended in tragedy Saturday, when the boy was found dead in a family pool. ...more

February 25, 2008

A 79-year-old nun was sentenced Friday to one year in a county jail for sexually abusing two teens when she was their principal four decades ago. ...more

February 2, 2008

This is in regard to a letter by Charles J. Guth, who was writing his support of his good friend Dale Leland, charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl. Mr. Guth claims he wishes he could have been in court to support his child molesting friend. I wonder why he wasn't? Apparently, he feels that a sentence of six and a half years is too severe for a charge of stealing a young girl's innocence, causing her to learn some very hard lessons about men way too soon, and suffering untold emotional trauma. He goes on to place the blame on the child for not resisting, intimating that because she was not a "tiny child" she somehow should have known what to do to defend herself from the sexual advances of a grown man. Unbelievable to me. ...more

November 15, 2007