Most of us have the Bucs pretty well nailed after all these years, I think. We know about the defense. We know they don't have much firepower on offense. And above all, we know that when they fall 21 points behind as they did here Sunday, they are toast. Finished. Splatt-o. ...more

November 3, 2008

SEBRING — They didn't vote on whether to fill the dredge hole in Lake Jackson, and they didn't table the matter. Instead, the council simply didn't act. Bobby Clark, 23, drowned June 11 in the hole, which was probably created in the 1960s to fill a park area behind the Civic Center park, then-City Manager Bob Hoffman told the council. Fire Chief Brad Batz said Clark crossed the football field sized hole just a few yards off Pier Beach several times that day, but got a cramp during his last swim. After Clark died, the city councilors asked what they should do. ...more

July 2, 2008

SEBRING — Last week when Clell Ford and Erin McCarta measured the width, length and depth of a dredge hole at City Pier Beach, where a drowning took place June 7, they realized it was a whole lot bigger than originally estimated. In fact, it's about 10 times bigger, and it's going to take twice as much sand to fill it as can be easily found in Lake Jackson: 10.000 cubic feet, 6,800 cubic yards. So the bottom line, said Ford, who is Highlands County's lakes manager, is that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection won't be able to grant an emergency permit to fill the football-field sized hole a few feet off the beach. ...more

June 18, 2008

A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice in frigid Antarctic waters Friday, driving all 154 tourists and crew members into bobbing lifeboats before they were plucked to safety by a passing ship, authorities said. ...more

November 24, 2007