A Tampa man has been charged with attempted second-degree murder. ...more

May 1, 2009

77 years old. The owners on the floor above me installed a washing machine from which suds and water come into my apartment through the wastewater drains. I reported the problem to the manager but nothing has been done to correct the problem. We have laundry rooms in the building but, of course, people prefer to have their own machines. ...more

March 29, 2009

For a linguistics professor to lose his hearing must be a special kind of living hell. Desmond Bates finds his entire life is changed as he decides he must retire early. "Deaf Sentence" by David Lodge is a funny, yet tragic picture, of Desmond's new life learning to cope with insufficient information. An attractive young American graduate student professes she wants his advice on her thesis, but Desmond is not sure that is all she wants. And his inability to communicate rationally gets him into all types of embarrassing social and professional situations. Then, too, he also has to cope with his 89-year-old father who is refusing to leave his familiar world, though he is really not able to manage on his own. Desmond struggles to juggle his past and current life and is forced to accept the realities of aging and mortality. ...more

February 11, 2009

After struggling with the issue for two years, the Lake Placid Town Council has finally adopted a sewer connection ordinance. ...more

January 20, 2009

When Louie Sellars came to work for the city in 1968, its utility department was anything but state-of-the-art. ...more

January 14, 2009

Wednesday's Prep Scores ...more

January 7, 2009

Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook. The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com. ...more

January 7, 2009

Re: Frances Earl's column, "Nov 4: Last Chance To Get It Right," in the Oct. 30 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

November 2, 2008

In America, a Guy named Joe, who happens to be a plumber, questioned and challenged a guy named Barack (Democrat), who happens to be running for president of the United States, and, within 24 hours, the drive-by media gave us more information about Joe's life than they have given us about Barack's life in the past 24 months. ...more

November 1, 2008

If Obama lived in number-obsessed China, he'd try to have 95 in his phone number or live at an address with 95 in it. ...more

October 25, 2008