With its best player out with the flu, the Lake Placid boys basketball team battled a talented Okeechobee squad on even terms for most of the game before falling by a score of 64-56 on Thursday night. ...more

December 5, 2009

Which is worse, driving while drunk or yakking on a cell phone while behind the wheel? ...more

January 21, 2009

Shavonte Zellous scored 27 points, and the Pittsburgh women held South Florida to 26 percent shooting, including two of 19 from 3-point range, as the Panthers blasted the Bulls 76-49 on Saturday night. ...more

January 18, 2009

THE DIFFERENCE: Sarasota Riverview had more big plays than Riverview by scoring on a 96-yard opening kickoff return, 41- and 68-yard touchdown runs and a 53-yard interception return for a score. ...more

October 11, 2008

Dina Wyatt taught at Walden Lake Elementary from 1991 through 1999. She was voted teacher of the year twice and - most importantly - fell in love with the community. ...more

June 18, 2008

THE DIFFERENCE: Trailing 7-6 at halftime, the visiting Green Devils pounded the ball on the ground in the second half, scoring four rushing touchdowns to win their first game of the year. Running back Mike Wilson led St. Petersburg's ground game with 96 yards on nine carries and scored two touchdowns. His first touchdown in the second quarter was his longest, a 34-yard score. ...more

October 19, 2007

Like cattle being prepared for slaughter, some native children captured by the Inca were fattened up for months before being ritually sacrificed to the gods, a sequence of events calculated to elevate the victims' value to the gods and to strike fear into subjugated peoples, British researchers reported this week. ...more

October 6, 2007