Longtime school board member and vice chairman Jim Malcolm announced Tuesday that he will not seek a fifth term on the Hernando County School Board. ...more

January 16, 2008

BROOKSVILLE - Longtime Hernando County School Board member and Vice Chairman Jim Malcolm has announced he will not seek a fifth term. ...more

January 15, 2008

A Spring Hill resident has joined the 2008 race for a seat on the Hernando County School Board. ...more

December 11, 2007

A hurricane-damaged condominium complex in remote southeast Polk County has settled a lawsuit with its insurer and finally can start on millions of dollars in repairs, its attorney said this week. ...more

December 1, 2007

LAKE WALES - A hurricane-ravaged condominium complex in remote southeast Polk County has settled a lawsuit with its insurer and finally can get started on millions of dollars of vital repairs, its attorney said this week. ...more

November 30, 2007

Brooksville Housing Authority director Ronnie McLean, whose suspended driver's license and ensuing explanation prompted some housing board members to question whether he was right for the job, endured a scare Monday when he thought his license had once again been suspended. ...more

November 27, 2007

Mark Vida of Hudson thanks state Sen. Mike Fasano for big decrease in Citizens Property Insurance renewal premium. ...more

November 13, 2007

For more than a year, insurance underwriter Robert S. Garcia Jr. falsified homeowners and motor vehicle insurance documents, leading clients to believe they had coverage when they did not, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office detectives said Friday. ...more

November 10, 2007

In 1995, Barrett Smith recalls, an insurance agent told him if he didn't register his auto body repair shop as a preferred provider - one the insurance company would refer its clients to for collision repairs in exchange for discounts and other favors - he would be out of business within a year. ...more

November 8, 2007

AVON PARK — It has been more than a year since then-mayor Tom Macklin brought up an ordinance to penalize landlords for renting to illegal immigrants. Though it failed in June 2006, it mobilized several businesses and most of the Hispanic community, and for better or worse, it changed many residents' views of their city and the actions of City Hall, even to this day. "They're (the customers) more careful now, because they know they're after them," said Angel Del Valle, who worked at the Broken Spoke Flea Market during the unfolding controversy last year. He now owns the store, and had several Hispanic customers browsing the shelves when interviewed Wednesday afternoon. "They try not to be too obvious." Though Macklin was the mayor of Avon Park for six years, most people only remember him for his final months, when he brought the Illegal Immigration Relief Act to the council chambers. He earned a large group of detractors, but also earned the support of those like James Geer, who wrote in a 2006 letter to the editor that "the federal government is not doing its job." ...more

November 4, 2007