Two neighborhood association officers have filed complaints with the state accusing former property manager Jonnie Tyler of misappropriating money homeowners paid for pest control services. ...more

October 17, 2007

In high school football, a smash-mouth offense has been the recipe, and most basic strategy, for success. Run the football. Run it some more. Play solid defense ... and then run some more. ...more

October 4, 2007

Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla was suspended Tuesday for seven games and Athletics outfielder Nick Swisher was given three games for an incident that occurred in the first inning of Sunday's game in Oakland. ...more

September 19, 2007

AVON PARK — "I remember when those lights went on, saying, 'Oh God, I'm going to jail.'" That's what Tom, age 27, of Avon Park, recalled after leaving a bar in Lakeland on April 23, 2006, and driving his Volkswagen Bug. Tom was pulled over by a Lakeland police officer for not having his running lights on. He only had three drinks, he said. "Those three drinks cost me about $485 each, no, it was a lot more than that," he said. "I spent 26 hours in jail. I received probation for a year and $2,500 in fines and another $45 per month for the probation." ...more

September 9, 2007