There will be no garbage pickup today in Avon Park. Today's garbage will be picked up on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Thursday and Friday pickup in Avon Park remains the same. There will be pickup as normal in Lake Placid, in the unincorporated areas and the City of Sebring. ...more

November 11, 2008

12:59 p.m.: Roberta Banks, wearing a gold satin floor-length dress and a black wig held in place with a scarf, greeted voters with a sign that read "Help Me Get Married" at precincts 562 and 566 at the University Area Community Center Complex. ...more

November 4, 2008

The government will borrow a record $550 billion in the current quarter as it scrambles to fund the huge rescue programs being put in place to deal with the worst financial crisis in seven decades. ...more

November 3, 2008

The still-cinched credit markets are anticipating a half-point interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve this week, but investors are worried it won't be enough to quickly revive the economy. ...more

October 28, 2008

SEBRING The Sebring Police Department is advising the public to be wary of folks who might approach them and say they have won the Florida lottery. On Wednesday, Officer John Garrison met with a fraud victim, who said she met an unidentified Hispanic male and female at Winn-Dixie. The man told her he had won $3 million in the lottery, but could not cash the ticket because he was in the country illegally, according to an offense report. ...more

October 16, 2008

Former Tampa Bay Lightning player Dave Andreychuk will deliver the keynote speech at the Credit Union Expo on Saturday at the University of South Florida Sun Dome. ...more

October 16, 2008

Cypress Point Park is back in business after storms and steady erosion whittled away the banks of the park on the western edge of Cypress Street on Tampa Bay. Traffic is expected to slow near Cypress Point where the city has scheduled a rededication ceremony this morning to mark the end of the park's shoreline restoration. ...more

October 14, 2008

Election No-Brainer There are two questions that I wish to elaborate on about this upcoming presidential election. ...more

October 11, 2008

Please don't sell the future of the children of this country by handing a $700 billion blank check to the same people who caused our current problems. You will prolong problems that can work themselves out. ...more

October 6, 2008

David E. Rawson of Palm Harbor says the financial bailout legislation Congress has been considered is an unwise socialist idea. ...more

October 4, 2008