The Spring Lake Board of Supervisors is requesting legislation to modify its current codification for the purpose of updating and streamlining the district's governing document. The present codification document, enacted in 2005, is for the most part unchanged from the original codification of 30 years ago. The proposed legislation (codification document) addresses shortcomings in the present codification and will allow the district to better fulfill the current and future needs of the community. It updates the provisions of the district's charter to recognize popularly elected seats to the district board. ...more

November 29, 2009

Ray Gadd, the interim director of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, says it's time for the $32 million-dollar-a-year charity to move beyond the forced resignation and suicide of its former director. ...more

November 4, 2009

McCoy, Calvary shine bright at 1A-Region 5 TAMPA - On a day that included controversial disqualifications of two of the area's top boys players, several lights still shined brightly at the Class 1A-Region 5 tournament. ...more

October 27, 2009

When Dade City Commissioner Camille Hernandez made a motion last week to repeal the town's ban on private irrigation wells, she said it was about conservation and property rights. ...more

October 21, 2009

When City Commissioner Camille Hernandez made a motion last week to repeal the city's ban on private irrigation wells, she said it was about conservation and property rights. It was wasteful to force homeowners to use city's potable drinking water to sprinkle their lawns if they could afford to drill a well, she argued. She was convincing, winning a 3-2 majority vote to repeal a decades-old ordinance. ...more

October 20, 2009

A Lake Placid man was arrested on warrants alleging that he failed to file tax returns between 2005 and 2008. ...more

September 16, 2009

Children caught in the middle of nasty divorces soon may have legal advocates to look after their interests. ...more

June 3, 2009

Avon Park Police Officer Alberto Perez was out of jail Friday on a $6,000 bond following his second arrest Thursday for allegations of police misconduct. ...more

May 1, 2009

A man was arrested Wednesday night after authorities say he stabbed a neighbor with a hunting knife following a fight in a mobile home park. ...more

April 2, 2009

A doctor who vanished eight years ago after he was charged with molesting two girls in Pinellas County has turned up under a different name in Ireland, and now is fighting extradition, according to Dublin news organizations. ...more

April 1, 2009