Hernando County is downstream of a disaster waiting to happen and residents should be paying attention, environmentalists say. ...more

December 18, 2008

Hernando residents should be paying attention to a plan to bring a landfill to Dade City, environmentalists say. ...more

December 17, 2008

Former U.S. Sens. John Danforth of Missouri and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, two old lions of the Republican Party, recently have re-emerged on the national scene saying they want to promote "public confidence in the outcome" of the Nov. 4 election. ...more

October 18, 2008

Somebody has to clean up the mess. In baseball, those duties fall to the ultimate worker bees, the clubhouse attendants. As of mid-afternoon Tuesday, a series of fans were blowing the carpet dry in the clubhouse at U.S. Cellular Field – and that was after an initial cleanup process that kept the clubbies there until about 1:30 a.m., some six hours after the final out. ...more

October 7, 2008

Leaving aside for a moment the obvious difficulties facing Republican candidates this election season, much of what ails the campaign at the tip-top of the GOP ticket could be found Thursday night in, of all places, the kickoff event on behalf of John McCain in Pasco County. ...more

July 20, 2008

Should the Bucs pursue Brett Favre? Ira Kaufman weighs the pros and cons. ...more

July 15, 2008

SEBRING — In a closed-door meeting last week, the owners and/or general managers of the top five hotels in this city met privately with new Highlands County administrator Michael Wright to make one request: don't get rid of Rocky Ellingsworth, the Highlands County Sports Complex manager. The hotel owners and managers all told Wright that Ellingsworth is almost single handedly responsible for filling most of their hotel rooms on many off-season weekends because he brings in first-class softball and baseball tournaments. They also said that league and tournament directors who had tournaments at the sports complex have told them they will cancel their tournament dates and hotel accommodations for the fall if Ellingsworth loses his job here. Many of the hotel owners and managers also said they've been told that some tournaments will leave and never come back if Ellingsworth isn't working here, and the teams will travel to whatever new location Ellingsworth works in to hold their weekend tournaments there. ...more

June 30, 2008

Denise Amber Lee did what she could to draw attention to herself in the time before she was killed and buried in a shallow grave last week. ...more

January 25, 2008

DENVER - Win, win, win. That's what the Red Sox, of all people, do now in October. ...more

October 28, 2007