A waist-high net stretches across the back of the driving range at Innisbrook, some 300 yards away, mainly to keep golf balls of some of the biggest hitters from disappearing into a lake that most people don't even know is there. ...more

March 18, 2009

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A playwright and possible spy gets into so much trouble he fakes his own death and goes into hiding, communicating with the outside world through plays and sonnets under a nobody's name who becomes world-renowned. ...more

March 4, 2009

A playwright and possible spy gets into so much trouble he fakes his own death and goes into hiding, communicating with the outside world through plays and sonnets under a nobody's name who becomes world-renowned. ...more

February 25, 2009

Barefoot with black pants pulled up above his calves, loose fitting white shirt, bandana and straw hat, Sebring High junior Marcos Oliva was ready to dance. ...more

October 12, 2008

People who knew him say that when Lee Boswell turned up at Florida College, they could have placed a wager on the garb he would sport and the gifts he would bear. ...more

August 27, 2008

People who knew him say that when Lee Boswell turned up at Florida College, they could have placed a wager on the garb he would sport and the gifts he would bear. "He would arrive on campus in khaki pants, a straw hat and usually with a cigar in his mouth," said Bob Owen, Florida College president from 1982 to 1991. "And, he always had two sacks: One was a sack of oranges for the students, and one was a sack of money to make sure the faculty got paid." Owen, who is married to Boswell's daughter Janelle, was among the speakers at the Aug. 15 dedication of the new 320-capacity Boswell Hall for male students, named in honor of the college's longtime supporter, a Lakeland citrus farmer who died in 1994, and his wife, Margaret, the mother of their five daughters. The ceremony also marked the opening of the Christian college's 90-student-capacity Terrace Hall, the neighboring new women's dormitory. ...more

August 22, 2008

TAMPA - Most neighbors who see John Raymond Zachreus call him "Willie Nelson" because his beard, brown hair and straw hat remind them of the country singer, police said. ...more

November 15, 2007