State Senate President Jeff Atwater has sent legislators a summary of new legislation on the controversial SunRail proposal, to be debated in a special legislative session starting Thursday morning. ...more

December 1, 2009

State Senate President Jeff Atwater told senators the new legislation would set up a set up a statewide authority similar to the state Turnpike Enterprise to oversee rail transit systems, and solve the problems that led to SunRail's defeat in the last two legislative sessions. ...more

November 30, 2009

Allyn Ramker has run the Turkey Trot every Thanksgiving since it started 31 years ago. So he wasn't about to stop this year, although the odds were against it. ...more

November 27, 2009

A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station today and even whipped off an extra chore. ...more

November 19, 2009

Police executed a search warrant at a Fifth Street home early Thursday morning and say they found a woman sitting fully clothed on a just-flushed toilet before charging her with drug and weapons counts. ...more

November 14, 2009

They know the alphabet, can read and write a bit and fit right in with a challenging first year in school - they are the students in the pilot advanced academics kindergarten program. ...more

November 13, 2009

Sheriff's deputies in Pasco County have released a composite image and beefed up patrols near school bus stops and schools where they believe a serial flasher is stalking children. Two cases have been in Holiday Lake Estates - one near a school - and the other four have been near schools as well. ...more

November 13, 2009

Sylvia Grant testified her then-husband, Joseph Coleman, burst into her house, beat her with a gun and shot her in the neck. ...more

November 4, 2009

A Georgia woman claims Sebring resident Rikelle Purcell, who died last week after what authorities describe as a murder-suicide, was set to leave her abusive boyfriend before she was shot to death. ...more

November 3, 2009

The death investigation that began Thursday morning at 4401 Shamrock St., in northwest Sebring, has now been ruled a murder-suicide by the medical examiner's office. ...more

October 30, 2009