Forget yellow mums and orange marigolds. Add a touch of fall with container gardens full of fresh color combinations and plants that welcome the cooler air as much as we do. ...more

October 5, 2008

Cody Fowler Davis was on hand to sign copies of his new novel, "Implied Consent," on Sept. 16 at Barnes & Noble, 213 N. Dale Mabry Highway. The courtroom thriller brings back his Anderson Parker character, a good-natured lawyer who once again must lock horns with rival Justin Cartwright III. ...more

September 24, 2008

Browsing in Barnes & Noble one afternoon, I found myself drawn to the "Summer Reading" table, where neatly stacked piles of books by Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck and Zora Neale Hurston sat waiting for the teenagers who were supposed to read them by the first day of school. I had to wonder how many students were in fact turning the pages with any real desire to get to the next one. ...more

September 14, 2008

Fall is fast approaching and for the genealogy community, that means classes will be popping up throughout the area. Here is a sampling: ...more

August 31, 2008

It is the largest case of identity theft in the country. More than 41 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by an international ring that hacked into the computer networks of nine national retail chains, including Barnes & Noble, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax and TJX Cos. ...more

August 8, 2008

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it had charged 11 people in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers. ...more

August 6, 2008

The summer months are always busy for the county's libraries, but circulation numbers spiked well before school let out. ...more

August 3, 2008

HUNTER'S GREEN - Amanda Louise Martin, whose murder-mystery became the talk of the neighborhood, died June 19 of complications from lupus. ...more

June 28, 2008

Known for its freshwater lakes and bird-watching venues, Lake Placid in Highlands County was the kind of small town where Gregory Johnson was naturally buffered from the seamier sides of life. ...more

June 25, 2008

HUNTER'S GREEN - Amanda Louise Martin, whose murder-mystery became the talk of the neighborhood, died June 19 of complications from lupus. Martin, 36, published her first book, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," in November. Diagnosed at age 17, Martin had end-stage renal disease and wrote the manuscript for "Beautiful Day" in longhand while hooked up to a home dialysis machine. ...more

June 23, 2008