He finished in the top four of the 2008 "American Idol" competition and was the first competitor to play an instrument onstage. Wednesday, Jason Castro performed here for a crowd of more than 200 people. ...more

October 30, 2009

He finished in the top four of the 2008 "American Idol" competition and was the first Idol competitor to play an instrument onstage. And Wednesday evening Jason Castro performed for a crowd of more than 200 people . ...more

October 29, 2009

The public can offer input on the ongoing search for the next schools superintendent. ...more

September 3, 2009

To gain some familiarity with economics, youngsters from Quail Hollow Elementary School operated a market in which students sold items they made. The students are learning the benefits of producing and selling. They got pretend money for items they made and used the money to buy the work of others. The students also were paid for their behavior in class and used that pretend money at the market Thursday. ...more

May 29, 2009

A sheriff's deputy was placed on 80 hours of unpaid leave after she spent a collective 11 on-duty hours at home over a four-month period. ...more

April 10, 2009

Florida State's women are heading to the NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight year and Coach Sue Semrau has a bigger smile each time. ...more

March 16, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Sunlake baseball coach Dick Rohrberg knows exactly how Netherlands manager Rod Delmonico feels after the Dutch shocked the Dominican Republic this week. ...more

March 13, 2009

I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled the entire length of the frontier numerous times, dined and slept in just about every border town on both sides and chatted with folks of high and low life throughout. ...more

February 21, 2009

On the face of it, 2009 shapes up as a "new" season for Chris Dyson. There's Dyson Racing's new relationship with Mazda announced last week that will see the team running a brace of LMP2 Lola B08/86-Mazda MZR-Rs in the 2009 American Le Mans Series; make that two LMP2 Lola B08/86-Mazda MZR-Rs sponsored by BP Petroleum. Then there's the team's new headquarters facility. It's still in Poughkeepsie, NY but it's more than double the size of the facility Dyson Racing has utilized for the better part of the past two decades. ...more

December 24, 2008

Todd Bentley, an atypical evangelist who drew thousands to a series of summer revivals in Lakeland, plans to divorce his wife amid revelations that he is romantically involved with the nanny of his children, according to his ministry. ...more

December 3, 2008