A young man, three male teens and a 12-year-old boy are recuperating after being shot early Sunday morning in a drive-by attack in Bradenton, Manatee County authorities say. ...more

January 28, 2008

Five people were injured in a drive-by shooting this morning in Bradenton, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

January 27, 2008

Voters hit the polls Tuesday to pick their presidential nominee and decide on Amendment 1. ...more

January 26, 2008

The Bush administration and the Republican Congress of 2001 buried the economy with the Alternative Minimum Tax. The first thing they did was to ditch pay-as-you-go to make the Medicare private prescription plan seem affordable in 2003. Shortly after massive tax breaks were given to oil and pharmaceutical companies. According to OMB.org: "Those tax cuts were designed to increase the amount of taxes paid through the A.M.T. The tax policy center, which has written extensively about A.M.T., notes that tax cuts enacted between 200l-2006 have more than doubled the projected share of tax payers who will face the A.M.T. in 2010 (from 16 to 33.6 percent). ...more

January 25, 2008

Our work group plans to start a Sunshine Fund to buy gifts for special occasions, such as birthdays, weddings and baby showers. ...more

January 14, 2008

SEBRING — A Delaware man died Friday morning when the Ford F-150 in which he was a passenger overturned, because the driver failed to see a fog-obscured curve. The deceased was listed as Leroy Caldwell, of Smyrna, Del. ...more

December 28, 2007

Tom Stracke said flooding was not a problem when he moved in 1980 into his home on Reynoldswood Drive, which borders Old Ehrlich Road and several acres of wetlands. ...more

December 22, 2007

Still a bit groggy from having just woken up, college student Tyler Maraia was told by his mother to go outside and help a man she saw in a ditch with some dogs late Thursday morning. ...more

December 22, 2007

SEMINOLE - Still a bit groggy from having just woken up, college student Tyler Maraia was told by his mother to go outside and help a man she saw in a ditch with some dogs late Thursday morning. ...more

December 21, 2007

BROOKSVILLE - A teen accused of having a hand in the beating of a well-known figure on Hernando County's roads will be behind bars or on probation until he turns 21. ...more

December 6, 2007