When Hudson's girls soccer team opens its season Wednesday against Mitchell, the Cobras will have to do it without their starting goalkeeper. ...more

October 30, 2009

The key for the University of South Florida when it plays at No. 20 Pittsburgh on Saturday is to contain RB Dion Lewis. ...more

October 23, 2009

A Lake Placid man was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital Sunday with critical injuries after being struck by a car while he was on his bicycle. ...more

October 20, 2009

News of the death of John Evander Couey, condemned to die for killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in a case that sparked legislation across the nation clamping down on sex offenders, was met with mixed - but strong - emotions Wednesday. ...more

October 1, 2009

The University of South Florida will be without wide receiver Jessie Hester for Saturday's game at Western Kentucky. ...more

September 11, 2009

Polk County sheriff's deputies are looking for a horse killer. Sometime between 5 p.m. Monday and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, someone with a rifle fired two shots at Jessie, an 11-year-old sorrel quarter horse, deputies said. ...more

September 3, 2009

Jessie LaDon Albach has been like a ghost haunting her family. A brother who was supposed to take her to a ballgame the night the 15-year-old vanished can't shake the knowledge that he never found her. Denise Yand, the sister she was to visit that summer, sees traces of her in the long hair and the walk of passers-by. ...more

February 23, 2009

Reference the letter by Jim Vokes on Feb. 9: I read with interest the part about Canada's health care system. I would like to chat with whomever wrote the letter Mr. Vokes refers to. ...more

February 19, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. The 15-year-old friends hung around each other's neighborhoods, chatted about boys and borrowed each other's clothes. ...more

February 19, 2009

Lisa DeCarr and Jessie LaDon Albach were like sisters. ...more

February 18, 2009