With the Hernando County School Board's recent decision to place the district's future centralized gifted education center at Explorer K-8 — the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard — local officials are banking on the county becoming home to a premier educational program for students with higher-than-average IQs. ...more

February 11, 2008

SEBRING – Sebring attorney Jim McCollum said people who don't think about the future will be stuck in the past. McCollum, who has been practicing law in Sebring for 35 years, thought ahead by bringing in two attorneys. Mia Mancinelli and J.L. Perez joined the firm last year. The firm will be known as McCollum, Mancinelli and Perez P.L. Mancinelli and Perez are considered members, which McCollum described as the "functional equivalent" of a partner. "I realized what a great job these guys had done and thought it was appropriate to put their names on the door," McCollum said. ...more

February 10, 2008

My family and friends know I love football. Really love football. ...more

February 8, 2008

Raccoons have put Hernando County under a rabies watch for the last three years. ...more

February 1, 2008

A $31 million water plant under construction off U.S. 301 will bring a larger water supply and stronger pressure to thousands of homes and businesses in the Brandon area and southern Hillsborough County. ...more

January 19, 2008

A $31 million water plant under construction off U.S. 301 will bring a larger water supply and stronger pressure to thousands of homes and businesses in the Brandon area and southern Hillsborough County. ...more

January 19, 2008

State forestry officials are re-examining their policies after a controlled burn in Polk County raged out of control, blowing smoke across Interstate 4 and perhaps contributing to a 70-car pileup Wednesday morning. ...more

January 11, 2008

Planning commissioners on Wednesday approved liquor licenses for five sites in the up-and-coming Trinity Town Center, now under construction at Trinity Boulevard and Little Road. ...more

January 10, 2008

Citrus growers in the Tampa Bay area spent the New Year on high alert last week as freezing temperatures threatened crops. ...more

January 9, 2008

It doesn't take a business degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to determine why proprietors of bowling centers want bowlers to bowl better. ...more

January 8, 2008