Micah Israel Rodriguez now knows what not to do when being arrested on a warrant for violating probation. ...more

November 28, 2008

An airplane labeled Iraqi Air Force made an emergency landing on a rural Central Florida highway - near a town called Venus, no less. ...more

February 22, 2008

VENUS — Along an isolated road near the Highlands-Glades county line, a single-engine plane with Iraqi Air Force insignia was grounded Wednesday afternoon. Doug Oliver, a spokesman for Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kan., confirmed that the plane, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, is a basic training aircraft intended for sale to the Iraqi Air Force. There were no injuries or damages reported in the emergency landing. ...more

February 21, 2008

VENUS — Highlands County Sheriff's Office deputies are continuing to guard a single-engine airplane with Iraqi air force markings that made an emergency landing here on Wednesday afternoon. ...more

February 21, 2008

LAKE PLACID — If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then Lake Placid is becoming an attention grabber. With $1.3 million of guaranteed state and federal grants slated for beautification and landscaping projects, the Caladium Capital of the world is poised to become greener. The projects will complement local private and business donors who banded together in 1987 to form the Keep Lake Placid Beautiful Committee. About $300,000 of federal funding, funneled through the Florida Department of Transportation, will pay for the extension of roadway median improvements on U.S. 27. ...more

December 8, 2007

The noise came suddenly from beneath my Jeep, a grinding, high-pitched squeal that fit somewhere between fingernails raked across a chalk board and the angry utterance of a 2-year-old denied his will. ...more

November 10, 2007

How easy was No. 23 South Florida's 37-10 romp against North Carolina on Saturday? ...more

September 23, 2007