Nature Coast lefty Mike Adams tosses complete game and hits two-run home run in 4-1 victory over Springstead. ...more

March 19, 2009

The number of Florida banks at risk of folding has more than doubled in the past few months, according to a Coral Gables rating agency. ...more

March 18, 2009

The number of Florida banks at risk of folding has more than doubled in the last few months, according to a Coral Gables rating agency. ...more

March 17, 2009

The South Florida Community College baseball team started strong and never let up in routing St. Petersburg College by a score of 12-7 on Saturday. ...more

March 16, 2009

It has now been seven weeks since President Barack Obama has been sworn in as our president. Prior to the inauguration, there was much discussion about how the president would lead. Some insisted that he would lead from the center and yet his major supporters totally expected him to lead from the left. ...more

March 14, 2009

As a concerned resident of Spring Lake, and owning property here for 12 years, I am strongly in favor of SLIDS'sroposed purchase of the Spring Lake Golf Resort. A previous letter to the editor indicated that a canvassing of many of the residents indicated 100 percent of them were not in favor of the purchase of the golf course. I have also discussed this purchase with a number of Spring Lake residents, probably over 100, only one said they were not in favor of the purchase and that a couple in fact had their home for sale for over a year and hope to move to another golf community. It seems to me that having a esethically looking, well maintained golf course that Kitson and Partners (the proposed managers of the golf course) have proven they will do as they have done on the rest of the golf courses they have managed, would improve all residents of Spring Lake's value which has been proven in hundreds of golf communities throughout Florida. ...more

March 14, 2009

A teenager who pleaded guilty to mugging a blind man was sentenced today to five years in prison and five years of probation. ...more

March 11, 2009

Homeowners who complain that a neighbor's night lighting floods into their yard and destroys their enjoyment of their property now have no recourse. ...more

March 11, 2009

Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez underwent arthroscopic surgery Monday to repair torn cartilage in his right hip, and doctors said they found nothing that would keep him from returning to the lineup in May. ...more

March 10, 2009

Def Leppard will perform Aug. 14 at Ford Amphitheatre, 4802 U.S. 301 N. in Tampa. Poison and Cheap Trick also will be on the bill. Tickets, $39, $59, $89 and $125 plus service charges, go on sale at 11 a.m. Saturday. Call the box office, (813) 740-2446, or Live Nation, 1-877-598-8698. ...more

March 5, 2009