This chicken and rice dish is a reminder of why they love their neighborhood so much. ...more

January 8, 2009

Fifteen-year-old Tyler Denny served orange juice to those who patiently waited in a long line that snaked out the door of the Florida Room during the first Sun City Center Holiday Walk. ...more

December 24, 2008

When Betmar Acres resident Cheryl Okke replaced her 1971 trailer with a new mobile home, she thought her homeowners association would be elated. ...more

December 21, 2008

Longleaf, a traditional front porch community is lighting up for the holidays in a traditional way. ...more

December 10, 2008

From the front porch of her tidy brick house, Betty Franklin can look across Hines Avenue to the rusting hulk of the former Cummer and Sons Cypress Co. sawmill, whose rhythms once ruled this corner of northeastern Pasco County. ...more

December 7, 2008

A family of five, burned out of its house Saturday afternoon, needs help furnishing a new home. ...more

December 3, 2008

The spider plant made it feel like home. "I grew that in my apartment, waiting for this day," Christine Rideout said last week as she stood on the front porch of her new house. ...more

November 17, 2008

Police arrested a registered sex offender Tuesday after a woman reported he had masturbated in front of her and her 6-year-old daughter, an affidavit states. Moises Antonio Pacheco, 37, is charged with felony lewd or lascivious exhibition on a victim younger than 16. He was held on $7,500 bail at the Orient Road Jail today, records show. ...more

November 5, 2008

No one was injured this morning in a fire that heavily damaged a home at 1600 13th St. S. ...more

November 1, 2008

I wonder if the residents of Highlands County are aware that a total stranger can park his or her vehicle in front of your house, come on to your property without your permission and take an animal, and the police will not do a thing about it? Yes, this can and did happen to me. ...more

October 23, 2008