Teachers turned out in record numbers Friday to vote on a new contract that will close the salary gap between Hernando County and surrounding districts. ...more

December 17, 2007

More than 100 people have signed petitions opposing construction of an underground jet fuel pipeline through central city neighborhoods to Tampa International Airport. ...more

December 12, 2007

Koby Dail can barely remember a time in his life when he did not play baseball. ...more

December 10, 2007

Tampa police homicide detectives have returned from Valdosta, Ga., where they interviewed a mother of toddler twins and the man accused of shooting her husband to death Friday. ...more

December 9, 2007

Georgia authorities have found the missing mother of toddler twins whose husband was shot to death Friday and have arrested the man accused of killing her husband, Tampa police said late Saturday. ...more

December 9, 2007

Tampa police say Georgia authorities have arrested Timothy Blackwelder and have Brittani Stewart in custody. Stewart is the mother of toddler twins and police say Blackwelder shot and killed her husband. Investigators think Stewart left her home at 910 W. Sitka Street after Timothy Craig Blackwelder, 24, shot and killed her husband, George Anthony Stewart Jr., Friday afternoon. The circumstances of her disappearance are not clear. ...more

December 8, 2007

While a variety of plastic holiday trees line the aisles at stores, many tree-shoppers are out looking for the real thing. ...more

December 3, 2007

Egypt and Saudi Arabia backed an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference Saturday as a way to set the stage for a final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, an Egyptian official said. ...more

November 11, 2007

U.S.-led Middle East peace efforts will not be seen as credible by Palestinians unless a deadline is set for a deal, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Saturday. ...more

November 4, 2007

SEBRING –– Highlands County went "green" when it launched a recycling program back in 1990. In about a month, the county will be greener, as it begins accepting office paper for recycling. Residents and businesses have frequently been asking Highlands County Recycling if it can add office paper to the items it accepts, said Christy Reed, recycling program manager. For the first time in four years, Reed now can answer that it soon will, by late November or early December. "We plan very soon to add office paper recycling and junk mail recycling to our newspaper recycling program," Reed said Monday. Those items will be accepted as soon as the 22 drop-off recycling bins can be re-labeled, she said. ...more

October 30, 2007