Secondary assistant principals are now getting the same rights as other 12-month employees in the Hernando County School District. ...more

June 6, 2008

Twenty years after an off-duty San Francisco police officer was found shot to death in his car, investigators have connected the case to a Florida prison inmate with Tampa Bay area ties. ...more

June 6, 2008

Secondary assistant principals are now getting the same rights as other 12-month employees in the Hernando County School District. ...more

June 5, 2008

Twenty years after an off-duty San Francisco police officer was found shot to death in his car, investigators have connected the case to a Florida prison inmate with Tampa Bay ties. ...more

June 4, 2008

SEBRING — Of Highlands County's nine baby deaths in 2007, three are a result of mothers sleeping with their babies. It's called co-sleeping, and officials say it's a big problem in Highlands County. Deborah Hadley, program manager of Healthy Families for Highlands County, said family support workers with Healthy Families, who visit mothers in the home, are reporting many teen mothers sleeping with babies in their bed. "We have a huge problem with co-sleeping," Hadley said. "Some of our parents use drugs or alcohol, and it concerns us greatly that that have babies in the bed with them." Hadley said some mothers say co-sleeping is a cultural habit they don't want to change and others say they cannot afford cribs for their babies. ...more

June 2, 2008

Electric bills for customers of Progress Energy Florida would jump by more than $8 a month under a plan filed today with state regulators. Citing the higher cost of coal, natural gas and oil, the St. Petersburg-based utility asked the Florida Public Service Commission for permission to recover the increased costs from customers. If approved, the 8 percent increase would be applied to customers' bills beginning in August. ...more

May 30, 2008

More Hillsborough County third-graders are reading and performing math on grade level than last year, with some schools making double-digit leaps in the percentage of children considered proficient. ...more

May 22, 2008

SEBRING — The yearly infant mortality rate for Highlands County nearly doubled from 2003 to 2006, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. In 2006, more than half of those deaths came from parents living in Avon Park, and more than half the deaths in the whole county involved blacks. The stated-funded Healthy Start Coalition of Hardee, Highlands and Polk Counties, a pregnancy and infant care program, also noted a trend where more infants were killed by accidental suffocations instead of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). ...more

May 19, 2008

TAMPA - Troopers are responding to the scene of a reported collision between a train and truck near the border of Hillsborough and Polk counties, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

May 12, 2008

When Tiffany Duffie makes out her $995 rent check each month, she tucks a little money away in the family's house fund. ...more

May 3, 2008