No one planning a trip to Europe needs to be reminded to see Big Ben and the Leaning Tower. But it's the unusual experiences that are often the most memorable part of a trip. Study up in advance and you can enjoy places and experiences like these: ...more

November 25, 2007

The region championships were fine but when it came time to really make her mark, Kaylee Doback would, well, miss her mark. ...more

November 10, 2007

In a roundabout way, the season Hideki Okajima put together as a 31-year-old rookie for Boston could make Tampa Bay's quest to shore up its bullpen that much more difficult. ...more

November 8, 2007

Shia LaBeouf was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing after the "Transformers" star refused to leave a Chicago drugstore, police said Sunday. ...more

November 5, 2007

The story of the first water buffaloes in the United States is a little-known tale of a Southern rice plantation, Yankee barbecue and New York's Central Park Zoo. Now, 150 years later, the beasts are back, this time as part of a historical exhibit. ...more

October 14, 2007

VENUS — A remote 10-acre site off of County Road 731 was the site of the 49th growhouse operation to be dismantled in Highlands County since November. More than 100 marijuana plants were seized in this operation. Deysi Lavin Jimenez, 38, and Carlos David Morales, 32, both of 327 County Road 731, Venus, were charged with producing marijuana, possession of marijuana in excess of 25 pounds or 300 plants and possession of narcotics equipment. ...more

October 11, 2007

A storm drenched China's southeast on Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, officials said. ...more

October 8, 2007

SEBRING — A Sebring woman was free from the Highlands County Jail on Monday on $1,000 bail after she was arrested on a third-degree felony child neglect charge. Sheriff's investigators claim she abandoned a 2-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome into the care of a local woman for more than a month. ...more

October 3, 2007

LAKE PLACID — A Lake Placid man, with a history of domestic violence battery, was charged with allegedly beating an 8 year old child with a custom-made paddle that had the victim's name on it, followed by the word "butt," authorities said. ...more

September 25, 2007

LAKE PLACID — The arrest of a Lake Placid man Friday on charges of marijuana production was in connection with the Aug. 7 raid and dismantling of a growhouse at 648 Western Blvd., Lake Placid. ...more

September 17, 2007