Sept. 5, 2009 ...more

September 5, 2009

The Bay area's unemployment rate is nearing double-digit levels, with 9.7 percent of the region's work force now jobless. ...more

March 7, 2009

Highlands County has not one, not two, but three babies for New Year's Day. The first to arrive was Layla Marie Vargas, who arrived at 12:12 a.m. at Highlands Regional Medical Center. ...more

January 2, 2009

Students at Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School began and closed their school day Tuesday the same way: with a prayer vigil for fellow student Alessandra Augello, one of two teenagers who died Monday night after a collision less than a mile from the school. ...more

November 12, 2008

Betty Walker was frying chicken when the gun went off outside. Boom. ...more

October 12, 2008

Watching her daughter's excitement mount as last Dec. 25 drew closer, Angela Vera of Brandon wished she could simply flip the page of the calendar over to January so she wouldn't have to deal with Christmas. ...more

October 1, 2008

August 26, 2008 ...more

August 26, 2008

TAMPA - A woman who worked in a Bartow nursing home performed the duties of a certified nursing assistant although she was never issued a license, authorities said. ...more

May 20, 2008

AVON PARK – South Florida Community College graduates will celebrate their self-determination, diligence, and long hours of study when they are honored during commencement on Monday, May 5, 6:45 p.m., in the SFCC Auditorium, Highlands campus, Avon Park. Speakers will be Norman L. Stephens Jr., SFCC president, Dr. Louis Kirschner, chair, SFCC District Board of Trustees, and Dienatann "Dee Dee" Darceus, SFCC Class of 2008. Bishop Benjamin F. Carter Jr., pastor of Bethel Pentecostal Holiness Church of Avon Park, will give the invocation and benediction. Music will be performed by Nelly Guzman Ford. Darceus, the student graduation keynote speaker, is a 2002 Hardee Senior High School graduate and will receive her associate in arts degree. She has applied to SFCC's Radiography Program for next fall. ...more

May 4, 2008

SARASOTA - A home health aide wrote herself $52,689 in checks last year out of an elderly couple's bank account, the Saraosta Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 14, 2008