TAMPA - Veterans in need of a place to live have called Liberty Manor home for more than a year. ...more

May 2, 2008

The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex face one last spacewalk today to wrap up exterior work on the newly installed Columbus lab, which flight controllers expect to be in use before Atlantis leaves next week. ...more

February 15, 2008

AVON PARK — The city's code enforcement office sent out 75 warnings to landlords for not holding rental permits since its enforcement began in December. The grace period ended last month, following the city council's passing of a minimum maintenance ordinance that gave code enforcement officers the right to annually inspect homes while also requiring landlords to get an annual $37.50-per-unit permit to lease within the city. Capt. Donald Simmons, Avon Park's head code enforcement officer, said he was going by "word of mouth" to find other landlords and rental properties in the city, since his office doesn't have an active list of residential rental properties in the city yet. His fellow officers sent the warnings so that landlords are aware of the requirement. "This is the first year this has been done in Avon Park," Simmons said. "This is brand new. A lot of people aren't aware of it." ...more

January 8, 2008

Fourteen-year-old Iisha Paxton couldn't hide the joy in her eyes. The girl's speech has been mangled since a round of meningitis, one of many trials in her young life - the worst, a malignant brain tumor, her mother said. ...more

November 9, 2007