When a baseball team leaves one city for another, it's personal. Jobs are lost, lives are changed, and memories become more precious because that's all that gets left behind. So it is for the Cincinnati Reds, who next week will conclude their final spring training here before moving to Arizona. ...more

March 27, 2009

So far, the American League Division Series between the Rays and Chicago White Sox has been strictly men and boys. And now the White Sox are the ones asking, "Hey, can we go outside and play now?" ...more

October 5, 2008

Put Them To Work Regarding "Vandals Wreak Havoc At Cemetery" (Metro, May 27): ...more

May 31, 2008

SEBRING — Green isn't the only color cultivated and prized by Highlands County groundskeepers. Eileen Beck, groundskeeper supervisor, oversees a crew of three county employees who trim, plant, irrigate, mow and maintain the 40 county-owned building sites, from nearly end-to-end. "We like to have color," Beck said, "and something is always in bloom." All three municipal libraries, the health department, the courthouse and the Agri-Civic Center are just a few of the rotating stops the crew hits at least once a week, or sometimes twice weekly during the rainy summer months. The landscaping around the sign at the Highlands County Government Center recently got a sprucing up from the crew. Marigolds, croton plants, Indian hawthorns and crepe myrtles, separated by mulch, surround the county marker. ...more

February 10, 2008

A man threatened a 6-year-old boy playing with a plastic soda bottle during the Super Bowl, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 5, 2008