U.S. Sugar Profile Founded in 1931 by Charles Stewart Mott, U.S. Sugar is one of the largest producers of sugar and citrus in the country. The privately held company employs 1,700 people and owns and farms more than 187,000 acres in Hendry, Glades and Palm Beach counties. In addition to sugar and citrus, the company owns a short-line railroad called the South Central Florida Express. The railroad includes 159 miles of track and 14 locomotives that transport lumber, paper, citrus and sugar. ...more

June 25, 2008

In 2002, Florida schoolteacher Rich Errera received patents pending for the Gourmet Impressions tools he invented, which can emboss words or logos on foods such as pizza crusts and a variety of soft, edible materials such as ice cream, vegetables, fruit, breads and doughs. ...more

June 25, 2008

Government Failed; Move On ...more

June 22, 2008

largest margin of the day - with eight holes to play. ...more

June 17, 2008

The president of Afghanistan threatened Sunday to send troops into Pakistan if Taliban fighters holed up there continue to cross the border and attack his country. ...more

June 16, 2008

Mike Sparkman returned to office Monday night, sworn in to fill the Plant City Commission seat he last held in 2005. ...more

June 14, 2008

Adam J. and Priscilla Kellerman-Pate had been married about eight weeks when they were traveling through Birmingham, Ala., on a church mission and the tire blew out on their van. ...more

June 13, 2008

Six years after a fatal accident in Alabama, a family is in a legal dispute over what became of Adam Kellerman-Pate's body. Priscilla Mellette, his wife at the time, said the man's parents had his body exhumed in New Port Richey and moved to Texas. ...more

June 12, 2008