The city wants to spend $150,000 to study whether it would benefit from a partnership with Hillsborough County to buy a new computer software system. ...more

September 16, 2009

A 61-year-old Sarasota man is accused of having 70 images of child pornography on a home computer, officials said. ...more

March 25, 2009

It won't be the usual game of poker next month at the Little Manatee River State Park. ...more

December 31, 2008

Hillsborough Kids Inc., the agency that oversees 3,057 children in state custody, is testing a new computer program that ensures caseworkers visit children every 30 days as required by law. ...more

October 14, 2008

Highlands County fourth-grades got 72 new students on the first day of school after three-fourths of third-graders who scored low on the reading FCAT last year were promoted after a successful summer camp. ...more

August 26, 2008

I just got a new computer, and now I need to dispose of the old one. What do I do? ...more

January 7, 2008

Already three days into 2008 and as I write this on the evening of Jan. 1, I have succeeded in my resolution of drastically lowering the amount of money I spend on my refreshments and doing some exercise to lose some of my excess inches around my waistline. ...more

January 3, 2008

SEBRING — Public records and public meetings in Highlands County will soon be more open and more accessible than ever before. With an Internet connection and a few strokes on a keyboard, people can have instant access to virtually every piece of information the county has, plus verbatim accounts of county commission meetings. In about a month, new computer software acquired by the Highlands County Clerk of Courts Office – which handles both county government business and court records – will make more information available more quickly through the Internet. By going to the clerk's Web site, www.hcclerk.org, people will find verbatim accounts of every word spoken by every person during every minute of every Highlands County Board of Commissioners meeting. Those verbatim accounts, in fact, can be viewed on a computer in three ways: a video clip of the section of a meeting that you're interested in, a separate audio-only clip of that meeting segment, and/or an official transcript of that portion of the meeting's minutes. ...more

December 11, 2007