The Lake Placid Police Department is seeking information into an early-morning burglary at Central Pawn on Dec. 24. ...more

January 1, 2009

Working under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, a group of Coast Guard law enforcement officers climbed atop a semi-submersible vessel in the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean early Saturday. ...more

September 16, 2008

Working as part of a Tampa-based investigation, the Coast Guard this weekend seized a semi-submarine with 7 tons of cocaine aboard about 350 miles west of Guatemala in the eastern Pacific Ocean, officials said. ...more

September 15, 2008

Karl Rove was impressed with Barack Obama when he first met him. But now he sees him as a "coolly arrogant" elitist. ...more

June 26, 2008

Why should a "high school graduate," whose academic quality is not equal to a low average eighth-grader, insist on going to academic college? ...more

May 22, 2008

A Tampa Web-hosting company has taken down a Web site used by al-Qaida for communicating in secret and hiding files from investigators. ...more

January 29, 2008

TAMPA - A Tampa Web-hosting company has taken down a Web site used by al-Qaida for communicating in secret and hiding files from investigators. ...more

January 29, 2008

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was awarded a $1 million federal grant to buy video surveillance cameras to be mounted in high crime neighborhoods and other equipment. The grant also will cover training and buy cameras for jails. ...more

October 30, 2007

TAMPA - Shares of WellCare Health Plans Inc. inched up in morning trading today after a Jefferies & Co. analyst said the company, which was raided last week by the FBI and other authorities, probably won't lose any of its Medicare contracts. ...more

October 29, 2007

For many years I have enjoyed the column on wild birds authored by Hank and Ruth Kowalski. I have missed it in recent weeks and now I understand that it is being discontinued. I urge the editor to reconsider this decision. We are blessed to live in an area of unsurpassed natural beauty and biological diversity. Unfortunately, I think this fact often is under-appreciated as our county steams forward toward further development. Ultimately, the voices that will be heard urging protection for these natural resources will come from those that have learned about and grown to value these treasures. Learning requires education and that is exactly the service provided by Hank and Ruth's column. Neither Hank nor Ruth are biologists, but they are ardent naturalists and even more enthusiastic researchers. They spent vast hours learning about the subjects of their columns, ensuring that their facts were correct. They demonstrated how the natural history of birds was relevant to their conservation. ...more

October 27, 2007