Snowbirds coming back for the winter might want to know that restrictions on lawn watering continue to remain in effect. ...more

November 3, 2008

Items of interest from the Oct. 13 Plant City Commission meeting included: •Commissioners agreed to advertise for new bids for construction of concrete basketball courts at Mike Sansone Park off Park Road. ...more

October 22, 2008

PLANT CITY Commissioners adopted an emergency ordinance Monday extending mandatory water restrictions ordered by the Southwest Florida Water Management District. ...more

October 16, 2008

A U.N. human rights team has found "convincing evidence" that some 90 civilians - among them 60 children - were killed in airstrikes on a village in western Afghanistan on Thursday night. ...more

August 27, 2008

The lingering tropical storm that has dumped more than 2 feet of rain along the Atlantic Coast did not provide Hernando County with enough rainfall to raise the water levels above normal. ...more

August 23, 2008

Ever took a boat out to Lake June lately? According to one of them, about 150 boaters did one recent weekend. ...more

August 5, 2008

WHEN: Thursday-Sunday WHERE: Royal Birkdale ...more

July 13, 2008

The best Florida summertime fishing week of the month of July is here. The week of the First Quarter Moon phase triggers the major feeding migration of the day to occur during the hours of sunrise, an hour and a half before and after. ...more

July 9, 2008

SEBRING — There will be no swimming at the city pier until a dredge hole is filled where a drowning took place Saturday, City Manager Bob Hoffman said Thursday. Highlands County Environmental Health Director Frank Kruppa, who grants public bathing permits, has closed swimming at the beach "until further notice," Hoffman said. On Saturday, Bobby Clark, 23, developed a cramp and drowned while swimming over the hole. The beach was cordoned off by police tape on Monday. ...more

June 12, 2008

Lorena Ochoa found a new way to win, grinding it out instead of running away from the field. ...more

May 19, 2008