Often they're from out of state. No close friends yet, no relatives to lend a hand. ...more

January 26, 2009

Registration for Avon Park Dixie Youth Baseball has been extended for one more weekend and will continue from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Durrah Martin Baseball Complex. ...more

January 22, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 17, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 15, 2009

Three New Jersey siblings whose names have Nazi connotations have been placed in state custody, police said. ...more

January 14, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-sized lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. But one thing about Earley, 42, sets him apart from other dads in the neighborhood. He's a fugitive hiding in plain sight, wanted by the law since 2007 on felony charges of failure to pay child support. A list of Florida's deadbeat parents, administered by the state Department of Revenue, is the best measure of the growing problem that Earley represents: The list of cases has increased more than 100,000 during the past five years, to 792,000. ...more

January 14, 2009

Noah and Emma Chinault support each other the way many siblings do. ...more

January 14, 2009

Belinda Serrano has taught at Adams Middle School so long that it's not uncommon for students to tell her she taught their mom or dad. ...more

December 31, 2008

Belinda Serrano has taught at Adams Middle School so long that it's not uncommon for students to tell her she taught their mom or dad. ...more

December 31, 2008

A 10-year-old girl died Tuesday afternoon after an 11-year-old boy visiting her Fort Meade home for Christmas shot her with a gun found in the bedroom, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

December 24, 2008