Mention Kamran Joyer and many local sports fans would know the name. The Wesley Chapel senior was a three-star Rivals.com guard in football who signed with the University of South Florida. ...more

March 25, 2009

Gingerlee Prettymitchell's "Words of Wisdom" published March 17 in the letters to the editor are really "Words of Folly." We can't even call them words of knowledge for she is talking about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and claims Jefferson's words support them. ...more

March 20, 2009

The University of South Florida women's basketball team were not among the 64 schools to get an invitation to the NCAA tournament. ...more

March 17, 2009

Three people whose prank of putting a chair on Interstate 4 in the middle of the night and causing the death of a Longwood police officer will go to prison. ...more

February 20, 2009

The owner of three fishing boats that were seized after authorities found them smuggling cocaine from Colombia pleaded guilty this morning to a federal drug offense. ...more

February 2, 2009

Aero Simulation Inc, a Tampa-based flight simulator design and manufacturing company, has won a $35 million subcontract and hired 25 employees to support development of an aircrew training system for the E-2D Hawkeye military early warning and control aircraft. ...more

January 27, 2009

Forty-one-year educator, Avon Park Middle School Principal Dan Johnson, has announced he will retire at the end of the school year. ...more

January 27, 2009

Moon Lake Elementary School is in the market for a principal - again. ...more

January 22, 2009

Former Bloomingdale High football coach Jason Stokes has been hired as the new coach at Middleton, Tigers athletic director Derrick Gaines confirmed today. Stokes replaces Harry Hubbard, who was removed from his coaching duties in December after six years at the helm. ...more

January 19, 2009

When Lauren Der was crowned Florida Strawberry Festival queen Saturday, she made pageant history. ...more

January 18, 2009