The two-story structure tucked away on Morgan Lane gives a whole new meaning to "grow house." ...more

December 20, 2007

Live music, folk dancing, Latin food, carnival rides and bingo, coupled with ideal weather, are helping draw Tampa Bay area residents to the three-day Our Lady of Guadalupe Festival at Plant City Stadium. ...more

December 9, 2007

AVON PARK — City Manager C.B. Shirey isn't giving up. He still wants the state legislature to forbid the Highlands County Health Department to issue migrant labor camp permits that violate municipal zoning ordinances. ...more

November 25, 2007

Garcia and Rodriguez - are among the top 10 most common in the nation, and Martinez nearly edged out Wilson for 10th place. ...more

November 17, 2007

Candy and Terry Jiovani found themselves chuckling after their salsa lessons. The Largo couple were among those learning the Latin dance Saturday on the bricks of the Riverwalk at the Arte 2007 celebration of Hispanic and Latin arts. ...more

November 3, 2007

Florida is joining 18 other public college systems nationwide in a plan aimed at graduating more low-income and minority students from its public universities. ...more

November 1, 2007

Howard Dean came to Florida Tuesday to raise money for his party and to make peace with the state's Democrats. He tried to make light of his decision to disenfranchise Democratic voters, calling it a spat between politicians that will be quickly forgotten - an insulting position likely to alienate voters further. ...more

October 11, 2007

SEBRING –– Santos Guadalupe De La Rosa likes to say that farm work is his college education. If that's so, then his education started when he was 7 years old and continues until today as a farm worker specialist for the Florida Non-Profit Housing in Sebring. De La Rosa's family members were all migrant workers. His parents, aunts, grandfather –– the whole clan –– traveled together like gypsies to wherever there was something ready to pick. At age 5, De La Rosa was babysat by his 9 - and 11-year-old sisters. By the time he was 7, he was working alongside his family in the field and traveling the crop circuit. The family was based in the Texas border town of Mercedes, in the Rio Grande Valley. ...more

October 1, 2007

More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report released last week. ...more

September 30, 2007

Southside Baptist Church wants to get to know its neighbors better. As a parish goal, the church is embarking on a plan to go knocking on doors to bring the lessons of Christ to residents in the area. ...more

September 6, 2007