A parolee convicted of using coat hangers to strangle a 65-year-old mentally ill man during a burglary of the victim's house was executed Thursday evening. ...more

November 7, 2008

11:30 a.m.: "Put me down as a first-time voter," shouts Natasha Williams. There are a lot of first-time voters this election, but few are like Williams, who at the ripe young age of 36 is casting the first ballot of her life. ...more

November 4, 2008

A landlord and his two friends who were accused by a tenant on May 26 of entering his mobile home and beating him, had the charges against them dropped, according to the clerk of courts office on Thursday. ...more

October 26, 2008

Nick Barnett was devastated when he got the news one day last month that two friends had died in a traffic collision. ...more

September 3, 2008

Two friends from Sebring were among thousands rushing out of the Big Easy as Hurricane Gustav approached Louisiana. ...more

September 1, 2008

Two friends who live in Walden Lake have been riding together for almost five years - not in a car or truck, or on motorcycles or bikes, but on handcycles, recreational, hand-powered, three-wheeled wheelchairs for those who have lost the use of their legs. ...more

August 20, 2008

Summer is here, and you know what comes next: You, standing with your hands on your hips, trying to get the kids to go outside and play. ...more

June 21, 2008

It'll be up to a judge or jury to separate fact from emotion in hearing a lawsuit that blames a husband and wife for not saving a man's life when he was stricken during dinner two years ago. But the simple fact that the complaint was filed is chilling. ...more

June 20, 2008

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the Friday night desecration of headstones at a Polk County cemetery. ...more

June 12, 2008

To the students of East Bay High School, it sometimes seemed as if tragedy were picking them off this year in ways both randomly cruel and crazily unfair. ...more

June 8, 2008