It is abundantly clear that Hernando County Human Resources Director Barbara Dupre has failed to uphold the integrity of the position she now holds. ...more

January 12, 2008

The Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions, which featured some of the best high school club lacrosse teams in North America fighting it out for the national championship in Wesley Chapel last weekend, doesn't need to look for another site next year. ...more

January 9, 2008

County Human Resources Director Barbara Dupre maintains she did nothing wrong when she kept candidate petition cards on top of her desk on the third floor government building. ...more

January 5, 2008

Just 53 days ago, Chris Leko and the Sunlake girl's soccer team took the field for the first time with almost no knowledge of what the future would hold. ...more

December 18, 2007

Two months ago, it looked like the Bucs would spend a good part of their offseason looking for a running back to back up or possibly replace Cadillac Williams. ...more

December 16, 2007

She's one of the best-known CEOs in the Tampa Bay area. She heads an organization with a $43 million budget and 120 full-time employees. Her organization's always in the spotlight, and a half- million people walk through the doors every year. ...more

December 9, 2007

A court awarded $11,000 Wednesday to a woman who said she woke up during major abdominal surgery but was unable to tell doctors she was in terrible pain. ...more

December 6, 2007

Christian Green became a quarterback almost by accident. Seven months later, no one would doubt he looks the part. ...more

December 5, 2007

At least 15,000 families are expected to register for the annual holiday food and toy distribution that begins today at Metropolitan Ministries. ...more

November 15, 2007

How about those kids today? All they care about is music, having friends, dating and irritating us older folks. Right? Well, no, actually. And if you need proof of that, look no further than Sebring High School's Freshman Foundation. They blow those stereotypes out of the water. Spearheaded by a group of students in the Freshman Foundation, the school has taken on the task of raising $10,000 to help Ugandan children caught in a savage war that gets little media attention. They will partner with the Schools for Schools program and try to bring about change for young people thousands of miles away. After watching videos of Ugandan children caught in a conflict between government forces and a rebel group called Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Sebring students decided to do something about it. The LRA kidnaps children to make them soldiers and sex slaves. It has totally disrupted any semblance of normal life for young people there. But most of us have never heard of such a problem because it's lost in coverage of Iraq and Darfur. ...more

November 9, 2007