New details, including a name, were released Tuesday by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office about a 1-year-old boy who drowned Monday in his family's pool. ...more

May 28, 2008

A 1-year-old boy wiggled through an open but blocked sliding glass door and then drowned in the family's Brooksville pool Monday morning. ...more

May 28, 2008

New details, including a name, were released Tuesday by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office about a 1-year-old boy who drowned Monday in his family's pool. ...more

May 27, 2008

A 1-year-old boy wiggled through an open but blocked sliding glass door and drowned in the family's Brooksville pool Monday morning. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office today identified the boy as Bisher Hiba, 4571 Golf Club Lane. ...more

May 27, 2008

Law enforcement officers have canceled an Amber Alert for three siblings who disappeared from Broward County. ...more

May 23, 2008

SEBRING — About 400 children in Highlands County receive protective services from the state or are placed in foster care homes, and more options are needed for placement. A reception Tuesday, May 6 will help community members learn about ways they can help, including adopting a child, opening their home to foster children or being a mentor for a child receiving protective services. ...more

May 3, 2008

Two people forcibly entered a Haines City home today Friday, and one sexually battered a girl inside while the other forced the girl's siblings into another room, Haines City police say. ...more

February 22, 2008

grandparents, mother, myself, five siblings, aunt, uncle and two cousins from Michigan, along with the Kinderman family (four people). The big draw in Hernando was basically two things: the great weather; and it was cheap to live here, for a fairly nice, quaint region. ...more

February 22, 2008

"Love is like the look of a rose, the smell of rain or the feeling of forever." ...more

February 14, 2008

About every six months the population of the U.S. increases about as much as the population of Tallahassee. Who are these hundreds of thousands of new citizens? They are newborns, children of illegal aliens born in the United States - birthright citizens, "anchor babies" - not illegal aliens. This quirky legal right then allows the mother's parents and siblings to remain, and later a whole bunch of their relatives to immigrate legally. This why they are also known as "Jackpot babies." ...more

January 26, 2008