SWIMMING Sharks notch first win over Central in team history; Lady Bears still dominate. ...more

September 13, 2008

With summer coming to a close and slightly cooler weather on the horizon, more boats will be hitting the water in search of fish. ...more

August 27, 2008

Throughout most of their existence, the Rays could have put in a claim for just about anybody they wanted on the waiver wire and had little doubt that they would end up taking priority. Not that they really needed to most of the time, given they never were playing for anything and only trolled the wire to fill a stray hole here and there. ...more

August 17, 2008

HUDSON - The Pasco Police Athletic League youth football and cheerleading program will kick off its 35th season with its annual jamboree next Saturday at Arthur F. Engle Memorial Park. The 10-team PPAL jamboree is set to be an all day affair that begins at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 9, the PPAL president, Mark Gardiner, said. ...more

August 2, 2008

Astronomers have discovered what may be the smallest alien planet yet - a rocky "super-Earth" only four times heavier than our home planet. ...more

May 31, 2008

A lot of our problems stem from the North American Trade Union plan. This idea started with NAFTA in Bush Sr.'s administration; many of us knew very little about what NAFTA actually was. I'm sure as we look back and think about how prices have increased as well as the inferiority of the products we're receiving, not many of us would see it as a good thing. We were told that prices would decrease, which proved not to be the case. It is a part of this one world government plan. ...more

May 19, 2008

In existence since the 1930s, Dan's Bar in Riverview is slated for demolition to make way for a development. Dan Pickard grew up in a house next to the bar his father bought in 1946, which he took over when his father died. "I wouldn't be able to bear it," he said of the planned demolition. ...more

February 20, 2008

I was sorely disappointed when reading that the Highlands County School Board had backed down after listening to a few speeches by people who were claiming that evolution is a proven scientific fact, and that any other theory had no right to a discussion in science classes! Correct me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that a scientific "theory" is accepted on the basis of such criteria as the following: 1. It must be observable. 2. It must be reproducible. 3. It must be predictable. If evolution had those three characteristics, perhaps we could accept it as a viable explanation for what we see all around us; the astonishing complexity of life, the world and the universe. ...more

February 17, 2008

Somehow, racy photographs from Christina Ofria's past made their way into the hands of administrators at Hernando Christian Academy. ...more

February 9, 2008

He's back. Shawn Bingham, the popular Hernando High School teacher and assistant football coach who has been out of work since September after a student accused him of taking $75 out of a wallet, will return to work this month. ...more

January 10, 2008