A host of angels may be settling in the city. Ross O'Bannion, executive director of Angels Unaware, recently asked the Temple Terrace City Council to consider donating city-owned property to build a "warm and welcoming" residence for a group of exceptional residents. ...more

September 17, 2008

Cops: Woman Kicks, Bites Deputy LAKE PLACID - A Lake Placid woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $2,000 bond Wednesday after she was accused by a sheriff's deputy of kicking and biting him and resisting him violently while she was being transported. ...more

September 13, 2008

A 17-year-old was arrested today, accused by detectives of fatally shooting a man on Monday, Sarasota police said. ...more

September 11, 2008

I itch. As I write this, I am trying mightily to keep from removing my fingers from the keyboard and raking them across the ugly, raised red patch on my shin. Or the one ringing my wrist. Or the one spread across my forearm. Or the one slightly north of my pinkie toe. Or the one shaped like a chain of Caribbean islands two inches from my belly button. ...more

July 27, 2008

South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem: The floodwaters they're slogging through are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and tarantulas. ...more

July 26, 2008

A Sebring man was free Friday on $5,000 bail after he was arrested and accused of pushing his pregnant girlfriend so hard into a bedroom door that it broke the door frame. ...more

July 21, 2008

AUTHORITIES ARREST MAN, WOMAN ON DRUG CHARGES ...more

July 18, 2008

Drums filled with 211 marijuana plants were rolled into the back of a moving van Thursday after SWAT and a Hazmat team converged on a home in River Country, deputies said. ...more

July 18, 2008

WEEKI WACHEE - Drums filled with what appeared to be marijuana plants were rolled into the back of a moving van today after SWAT and a Hazmat team converged on a home in River Country. ...more

July 17, 2008

In 1936, a photograph was taken of my extended family, the Klafehns, in front of our old homestead in Walker, N.Y. We were at our annual reunion. The black-and-white picture shows siblings, aunts, uncles, grandchildren, parents and cousins. I am a little girl age 5, sitting in the first row. ...more

July 13, 2008