Reading the letter from Betty Prescott in the Nov. 4 edition of the Highlands Today only increased my feeling of gloom and despair about the way our country is speedily heading down the drain. I had heard the news about no Social Security increase for 2010. In the very next story, it was reported that Brother Obama has plans to send $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan. ...more

November 23, 2009

Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: He says more Americans mean more swine flu. ...more

October 31, 2009

Killed in a fiery single-engine plane crash Friday night in Zephyrhills were a 46-year-old mother newly married only a week ago and her 7-year-old daughter whom she had just picked up for a weekend visit, according to a friend of the child's father. ...more

October 24, 2009

Authorities say the troubled Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death in a plane crash to avoid financial ruin bilked about $1 million from friends and relatives as part of an investment scheme that has led to 11 felony charges. ...more

August 23, 2009

President Barack Obama's aunt says he was born in Hawaii and she can't understand claims that he's not a natural-born American citizen. ...more

August 14, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Mary Jane Stanley, ex-president of the Pasco Economic Development Council, said this week she is ready to move on with her life after losing her job because of comments she made to a Tampa business magazine. ...more

July 3, 2009

In today's Hernando Today health section ...more

June 17, 2009

The Tampa-St. Petersburg area had the second-worst decline in the state in demand for hotel and motel rooms in April, a new report shows. ...more

June 16, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives have released the name of a couple involved in a May 31 murder-suicide. ...more

June 5, 2009

A man suspected of shooting and killing a well-known doctor who performed late-term abortions was in jail Monday. ...more

June 1, 2009