Classes for the new academic year got off to a smooth start Tuesday for Saint Leo University's full-time undergraduate students at the main campus in Pasco County. ...more

August 26, 2009

The Lightning struck a deal with defenseman Matt Smaby late Saturday, avoiding a potential arbitration hearing. ...more

July 27, 2009

Lake Placid High School sophomore Kacie Royce may be only 16, but she's got a big heart. ...more

November 13, 2008

Christina Nelson is always positive. That's how Pam Hadesty describes the friend she has known for more than five years. ...more

November 12, 2008

Refer to Mr. Ludacer's literal repeat of his editorial concerning the Patriot Act and Major Johnston's volatile diatribe about our efforts in Iraq. It's a shame Highlands Today can't find something new to accept instead of simply allowing a repeat of an earlier editorial from Mr. Ludacer or the kind of attack mounted by the major. It seems the major has an axe to grind with the military, apparently because he could not advance beyond the rank of major. Personally, I didn't get beyond the lower ranks of the enlisted men but I didn't and don't blame politics for that. 1 simply recognize that I did not apply myself to do any better and the major doesn't seem to be able to face that fact about himself. He chooses to pass the blame to politicians, for whom I often also have little love lost but they aren't the bullies standing in the way of personal development. ...more

January 13, 2008

It was a shopping extravaganza. Not at a chic mall, but in a converted area of Jefferson High School's gymnasium, where tables were filled with gift cards, movie passes, jewelry, flat irons, purses, makeup bags, University of Florida, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jefferson High shirts, footballs, basketballs and candy. ...more

December 15, 2007