A grassy winding road runs off Oak Drive and leads to a faded yellow shack tucked in the woods that few would want to call home. ...more

November 6, 2009

Didn't plan on missing that anniversary deadline. Of course I didn't plan to be still sitting here at the Type and Gripe factory after 40 years either. My mom is still waiting for me to get out and find a real job, or at least something respectable. ...more

October 28, 2009

A Sebring man remained in jail Monday on a $26,000 bond after being arrested Sunday for allegedly smuggling marijuana into the Highlands County Jail. ...more

April 21, 2009

"It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it a hundred times." ...more

January 11, 2009

Carmen Fernandez can remember living in Key West when it was an island with no bridge connecting it to the rest of Florida. ...more

December 10, 2008

Clearwater police have identified the homeowner they say shot someone in his garage this morning. Lester Rollins, 58, was sitting in his garage at 902 Pennsylvania Ave. at 4:45 a.m. when a man approached, said Elizabeth Daly-Watts, a spokeswoman for Clearwater's public safety departments. ...more

August 5, 2008

People clinging to hope that the former Gary Adult School can be saved from the wrecking ball are hoping contractor John Simon follows through with his plan to develop the 1913 building as the centerpiece of a sports complex. ...more

July 26, 2008

Reid Sigmon, executive director of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee, will address the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday at the Columbia Restaurant, 2117 E. Seventh Ave. ...more

May 8, 2008

What if the assassin's bullet had hit its intended victim, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt? Americans would have turned anxious eyes to Vice President-elect John Nance Garner. ...more

February 3, 2008

SEBRING — It wasn't a load of peaches a Georgia man was stopped transporting Wednesday afternoon through Highlands County. The man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $2,000 bail Thursday, after he was stopped while transporting enough marijuana to make 900 marijuana cigarettes, according to the sheriff's office. Shane Carlton, 21, of Cornelia, Ga., was booked on charges of possession of narcotics equipment to manufacture or deliver and distribution of marijuana. According to the arrest report, the car Carlton was driving was seen speeding doing 72 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone by K-9 Deputy Tom Fort. ...more

February 1, 2008