Lisa Freiberg loved animals and her children. She hated drugs. When she brought Edward Covington into her life, he brought drugs and took everything she loved. ...more

May 17, 2008

The Miami Herald's analysis probably said it best: The big winners in the new state budget are prison builders; the big losers are public schools. ...more

May 6, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY An addition to Pasco County's main jail might finally escape from the drawing board. ...more

May 2, 2008

J.D. Floyd will continue as a mini-magnet. That's the direction the Hernando County School Board decided to take Tuesday, leaving the district's middle school environmental program at its current location at J.D. Floyd Elementary School in Spring Hill, instead of relocating it to Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics in Spring Hill or West Hernando Middle School in Brooksville. ...more

February 6, 2008

Undeserved Award Regarding "Grimaces And Grins" (Commentary, Dec. 30): You dare to place Sen. Mel Martinez with a caption of "Political Courage" on the same page? Political suicide would be a better headline. ...more

January 4, 2008

Realizing the weather would likely "turn ugly," staff at the Pasco County Jail decided to evacuate 200 plus inmates from their temporary structures, Sheriff Bob White said during a news conference. ...more

December 16, 2007

Regarding "Class Caps Will Create Difficulties, Board Warns" (Metro, Dec. 12): ...more

December 14, 2007

As a civil engineer, Om Goel had faith that Chicago's world-famous El, however old, rickety and perennially cash-strapped, was maintained well enough that the trains would at least stay on the tracks. ...more

December 7, 2007

SEBRING –– On March 1, public access should be restored, on a limited basis, to popular Lake Denton. The special seven-member Lake Denton Citizens Advisory Committee voted unanimously Wednesday night to send that recommendation to the Highlands County commissioners. Commissioners appointed the committee in mid-September after voting 3-2 to close public access to this lake –– widely considered one of the best scuba diving lakes in the state –– for up to a year. Problems cited by commissioners in closing the county boat ramp, the only public access to this exceptionally clear, 65-acre lake, included: Potentially dangerous overcrowding by scuba divers, swimmers and boaters; illegal parking that sometimes clogged or blocked road access to lakefront homes; and occasional crude, lewd, rude and rowdy behavior by some lake users. ...more

December 7, 2007

SEBRING –– Public access could be restored to Lake Denton as soon as January, under a plan tentatively adopted by a special seven-member citizens committee. Highlands County commissioners may receive the proposal in December. It calls for restricting access through limited parking, weekend user's fees, and closing the county boat ramp at 4 p.m. daily. During summer weekends, dozens of vehicles carrying scuba divers, swimmers, sunbathers and a few boaters often overflowed the county's parking lot at the lake. Committee members are recommending that parking be limited to only eight spaces. Vehicles parked outside of the designated spaces could be ticketed or towed. ...more

November 16, 2007