Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on Congress Tuesday to grant him new powers to regulate huge financial companies like insurance giant AIG, whose failure would pose a grave danger to the U.S. financial system and the broader economy. ...more

March 24, 2009

A new K-8 school's reduced design will continue as planned, but open a year later than expected. ...more

October 8, 2008

SEBRING — It happened in Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties. But Joe Campbell made a different decision, so the intense media scrutiny wasn't focused on Highlands County after the 2000 presidential election. "Our presidential ballot was printed on one page," said Campbell, supervisor of elections in Highlands County. He held up a copy of the Palm Beach County ballot, signed by the election board officials there. ...more

May 19, 2008

A Venezuelan passenger plane slammed into a steep mountainside in the Andes, killing all 46 people on board, officials said. ...more

February 23, 2008

County officials are working to enforce federal flood regulations in an effort to keep property insurance rates down. ...more

February 18, 2008