The 18-year-old woman who was beaten and raped outside Bloomingdale Regional Library returned to her south Hillsborough County home for the first time since the April 24 attack today. She had been in treatment at a Sarasota rehabilitation center for the past five months. ...more

November 5, 2008

Apple's MacBook laptop, the company's low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn't just any old product. It's the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the United States overall. And, according to the sales-research organization NPD Group, the midrange model of the MacBook has been the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. retail stores for the past five months. ...more

October 27, 2008

PHILADELPHIA — Game 2 of the World Series was a thud on television. ...more

October 24, 2008

The family of the 18-year-old woman who was raped and beaten in April at the Bloomingdale Regional Library in Brandon didn't have to look much farther than their own back yard to find good Samaritans. ...more

October 24, 2008

The family of the 18-year-old woman who was raped and beaten in April at the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library didn't have to look much farther than their backyard to find good Samaritans. ...more

October 24, 2008

Friends of an 18-year-old woman who was raped and beaten at Bloomingdale Regional Library in April once again are turning to the community for help. ...more

October 23, 2008

Friends of an 18-year-old woman who investigators say was brutally raped and beaten at Bloomingdale Regional Library in April once again are turning to the community for help. ...more

October 22, 2008

SEBRING -- Penne Manar says she still gets goose bumps when she recalls how, seven years ago, she came to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County. She balked at a friend's invitation to join this non-profit, Christian faith-based organization that helps hard working people work and save their way into a new home that otherwise would be unreachable. Nearing the end of two years as volunteer president of the Florida Hospital Auxiliary, Manar worried that joining another service organization would stretch her time and energy too thin. But she accepted an invitation to attend a Habitat home dedication. Manar watched as a single mother with three young children, having saved the down payment and completed her 400 hours of "sweat equity" work, was given a Bible and house keys and became a first-time homeowner. ...more

October 19, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Larry Wainwright is finding that a good sunscreen comes in handy as part of his latest strategy for finding a job. ...more

October 15, 2008

My wife and I are residents of Highlands County five months every year. I spent 40 years in law enforcement and public service and worked at every level from patrolman to chief of police, and finally a town manager. I currently teach Spanish for law enforcement in North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. ...more

October 9, 2008