Thickets of cables and wires stretch from the ceiling. The musk of wet paint wafts through the building. Workers scurry, making the final construction touches on the new county government service center on Pauls Drive. ...more

December 5, 2007

SEBRING — "Welcome to Our Salon," the sign states on the front door of a Lemon Avenue beauty shop as water flowed out the open entranceway Friday morning. ...more

November 30, 2007

From start to finish, fire commissioner Robert Giammarco barked about the board's tendency - in his view - to waste taxpayer money, but one colleague barked back, accusing him of being misguidedly tightfisted. ...more

November 30, 2007

International donors pledged hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday to rebuild Bangladesh's cyclone-ravaged coast, but help wasn't coming fast enough for thousands of homeless survivors who fought over meager rice handouts. ...more

November 22, 2007

The father of a newborn baby boy surrendered by his mother to the Lake Wales Fire Department wants the child back, according to published reports. The father told authorities that he had not known the mother was turning over the child in accordance with Florida's safe haven for newborns law, The Ledger newspaper reported. ...more

November 17, 2007

LAKE WALES - A woman left a healthy newborn boy at the Lake Wales Fire Department's main station about 8:50 this morning, Fire Chief Jerry Brown said. ...more

November 15, 2007

It's not too early for parents in this city to start pondering a visit from Santa. Oldsmar Fire Rescue is making its list and checking it twice to determine which children get a personal visit from Santa in December. ...more

November 3, 2007

Developers of the massive FishHawk Ranch community are looking to expand again. ...more

October 22, 2007