Excerpts from a recent editorial in newspaper in the United States: The New York Post, on President Obama and Iran: ...more

November 24, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Democratic leadership aide says legislation headed to the Senate floor would extend health care coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade. ...more

November 18, 2009

A state Department of Children and Families employee is accused of stealing from an elderly woman with dementia whose case she was assigned to. ...more

November 12, 2009

A Georgia woman claims Sebring resident Rikelle Purcell, who died last week after what authorities describe as a murder-suicide, was set to leave her abusive boyfriend before she was shot to death. ...more

November 3, 2009

Over the objections of prosecutors, a judge agreed Friday that some of Jasmine Bedwell's past can be brought up in the trial of her former boyfriend, charged with killing her 3-month-old son and throwing the infant out of a moving car. ...more

October 24, 2009

One of southeast Hillsborough's most well-known nonprofit organizations has a birthday coming up. ...more

October 21, 2009

Imagine being Avon Park Police Chief Matt Doughney. He's been on the job 10 months and he's watched his department come apart piece by piece, and none of it is his fault. ...more

April 1, 2009

The Senate's plan to expand gambling may net the state far less than its sponsor was predicting. ...more

March 31, 2009

Mario Lopez was out of jail for almost a year. A former Miami resident who has served prison terms for grand theft and fraudulent use of a credit card, Lopez, 45, was arrested again today, accused of swindling more than $2,100 and two passports from people who thought they were paying for a trip to Ecuador, Pasco County Sheriff's Office records said. Florida Department of Corrections records show that Lopez, of 7111 Heibner Ave., Hudson, was released from the Hernando County Jail on March 31, 2008, where he was sentenced to 1 year, 10 months for fraudulent use of a credit card. ...more

March 24, 2009

Former Lightning G Olie Kolzig jokingly walked the hallways outside the locker room Tuesday morning, wearing attire typically reserved for the road team on game day. ...more

March 18, 2009