ALL-COUNTY GIRLS BASKETBALL Despite Jason Montgomery's resignation, Nature Coast sweeps through county for a fifth straight season. ...more

May 18, 2008

SEBRING — After suffering through a tough season last year, the Publix team has shown to be a much different club in this year's Dixie Boys Baseball League. With third baseman Jared Cannon and shortstop Shon Abeln leading the way with three RBI each, Publix overcame an early deficit to beat Alan Jay 14-4 in Dixie Boys (ages 13-14) action on Friday night at Max Long Recreational Complex. ...more

May 3, 2008

The administration at Plant City High School has gotten accustomed to holding signing day parties, but this one beat them all. ...more

February 13, 2008

Dudley Hart faced his greatest fears last summer when doctors found a softball-sized lump on his wife's lung, which kept him off tour the last half of the season to care for his triplets while she recovered. ...more

February 10, 2008

As soon as the final buzzer sounded, Canterbury fans screamed with joy. Not over the Crusaders' 67-45 Class 1A-District 11 boys basketball semifinal win against Academy at the Lakes. And not because top-seeded Canterbury earned its first regional appearance since 2001. ...more

February 6, 2008

Nathaniel Lee released a white dove into the sky above Englewood on Wednesday as a final gesture before laying his wife to rest. ...more

January 24, 2008

Children have no idea what a gift they are. ...more

January 9, 2008

Children have no idea what a gift they are. ...more

January 2, 2008

With Christmas only a few days away, this week's holiday Smackdown features Bucs quarterback Jeff Garcia against linebacker Derrick Brooks to determine who is "The Most Charitable Player." Regardless who wins this contest, both are victors for championing causes they believe in. ...more

December 21, 2007

AVON PARK — The day Walter Rollf found out Pearl Harbor had been bombed is one of the few times in his life he remembers crying. "When that happened and again when President Roosevelt died, I sat and bawled," Rollf said. Just 10 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, Rollf, a Navy seaman, had been transferred out of Pearl Harbor. "I cried mostly because I wasn't there, and I feel like I should have been," Rollf said, then pausing. "I lost a lot of good buddies that day, and it made me feel worse because I wasn't there with them." Rollf, a fifth-generation military man, would be what many consider lucky, having never been in combat during his years in the military, but he says he wishes things were different. ...more

December 7, 2007