One day after suffering a heartbreaking loss on a controversial sixth-inning call, the Avon Park All-Stars took matters into their own hands at the Dixie Youth Majors (11-12) state tournament on Sunday. ...more

July 14, 2008

More than 140 loggerhead sea turtles have been returned to the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

July 2, 2008

The Wiregrass Ranch girls were the surprise swim team of the season and at the forefront of that was freshman Rebecca Pindral, the Tribune's Pasco County Girls Swimming Athlete of the Year. ...more

May 28, 2008

As Florida's attorney general, I am deeply disturbed by the increasing number of stories of young people who make plans to meet in person a "friend" they've met online, only to discover that their "friend" is someone who intends to do them great harm. ...more

May 25, 2008

When dozens of female employees filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections alleging they were subjected to a hostile, repulsive work environment, they wanted one thing: to be heard. ...more

May 24, 2008

You're not supposed to lose a sister who's just 43 years old. But that's what happened to Tampa resident Linda Brown. Her sister, Patti Medley, suffered a brain-stem stroke while visiting Panama City in late March. A week later, she was gone. ...more

May 23, 2008

As we relaxed over drinks at Los Lagartos Restaurant at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort overlooking the Chagres River, Norma Ponce mesmerized us by recounting how she and fellow park rangers rescued an enormous crocodile in the Bay of Panama. ...more

May 18, 2008

Restrictions on the amount of red snapper that can be caught in coastal Florida waters soon could be approved over the objections of charter fishermen who insist the rules will severely hurt their businesses. ...more

February 4, 2008

A former juvenile boot camp guard who was exonerated by a jury in the death of a teenager was offered a new position with the Bay County Sheriff's Office but turned it down, the sheriff said. ...more

February 4, 2008

Commercial mullet netters, who saw their catches cut more than 60 percent by the 1995 net-ban amendment, have requested that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ease harvest regulations now that the fish have recovered to healthy levels statewide. ...more

January 27, 2008