About 3,500 Hernando County residents will be getting letters in the next week from Progress Energy about the company's preferred routes for new power lines. ...more

July 16, 2008

TAMPA - A request to raise home insurance rates for customers of the Florida Farm Bureau was rejected today in a final order issued by Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation. ...more

July 1, 2008

A group of residents plans to challenge the validity of the county's permit to store spoil dredged from the channel there on a four-acre parcel on Eagle Nest Drive. ...more

June 17, 2008

But residents in opposition plan to ask for hearing. ...more

June 16, 2008

A judge's recommendation last month that St. Joseph's Hospital should build a new regional hospital on Big Bend Road puts a crinkle in South Bay Hospital's plans to build across from the site. ...more

June 16, 2008

SEBRING –– Two of the three county budget office employees fired for sending sexually explicit instant messages on their county work computers during work hours are threatening state and, if that doesn't work, federal legal action. Those threats were made by Jim McCollum, attorney for Treasa Handley and Jarod Lee, who were fired for sending several thousand "inappropriate" instant messages during work, many of them described as "sexually explicit." ...more

February 21, 2008

State insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty on Tuesday filed a complaint seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 20, 2008

State Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty filed a complaint today seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 19, 2008

Being a federal judge is one of the most prestigious jobs in the law. In the Middle District of Florida, with two openings to fill, 36 applicants are vying for a chance at what many in the legal community consider their dream job. The applicants include 20 judges, six from Tampa. Among them are federal magistrates, state trial court judges, a Florida appellate judge, a judge with U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in Washington, D.C., and even an administrative law judge in Pennsylvania. ...more

November 12, 2007

It's a done deal. Tuesday night, the city council gave final approval to Morton Plant North Bay Hospital to break ground on a $49 million expansion of its 120-bed Madison Street campus. ...more

October 4, 2007