The Lake Placid Town Council has approved a bid from a Sebring company for road work on three streets in the town. ...more

August 14, 2009

New York Yankees star Derek Jeter will be allowed to put up a 6-foot privacy fence at his Davis Islands megamansion, the city's variance review board decided tonight. ...more

August 11, 2009

It's strike one for Davis Islands' newest multimillion-dollar resident. The Davis Islands Civic Association board this week voted to oppose New York Yankees star Derek Jeter's request to erect a privacy fence in front of the 31,000-square-foot mansion he is building. ...more

August 8, 2009

City police have dropped their union representation. Records show Thursday's vote was unanimous to break off ties with the Pinellas County Police Benevolent Association. Officers narrowly adopted the union about a year ago by a margin of one vote. ...more

August 1, 2009

The city council voted Monday against a staff recommendation to raise property taxes and kept Zephyrhill's millage rate at 5.57 mills. ...more

July 29, 2009

Florida was a landslide pick to repeat as Southeastern Conference champions. All but one of 64 media members voting at the league's media days picked the Gators to win the title. Mississippi received one vote in balloting released Friday. ...more

July 24, 2009

Turn it down Brooksville. The city council approved an ordinance Monday that allows impoundment for code violations, including loud car stereos. ...more

July 23, 2009

Praising and prodding Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the nation's health insurance system is required to head off instability to families, industry and the government itself. ...more

July 15, 2009

Well, we've done it again. We have spent another year in freedom and opportunity - arguing all the while about how free, how much opportunity and the best way to guarantee both - and arrived back at the anniversary of the founding of our nation. We tend to take this for granted but definitely shouldn't. ...more

July 4, 2009

A Senate committee has approved opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling within 10 miles to the Florida Panhandle and within 45 miles off the rest of the state's coastline. ...more

June 9, 2009