For the better part of 11 months, Oren Koules had to bite his tongue. As part of the original ownership group that attempted to purchase the Lightning in August, Koules expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in his pursuit of the team. ...more

June 23, 2008

Mexico City's Human Rights Commission cited evidence Sunday that police might have partly blocked the exit at a nightclub where a stampede killed 12 people, including a 13-year-old girl. ...more

June 23, 2008

SANFORD - Officials say everyone is safe after a Boeing 767 made an emergency landing at Orlando Sanford International Airport because of a smoky odor in the cabin. ...more

June 15, 2008

Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000. ...more

June 14, 2008

Two officials named in a $225 million racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit against NASCAR have been placed on administrative leave for violating company policy, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

June 14, 2008

Owner Colleen Wolfe unlocked and opened the front door at Sugar Plum First Class Preschool tentatively yet eagerly Friday afternoon. ...more

June 7, 2008

HUDSON -- Owner Colleen Wolfe unlocked and opened the front door at Sugar Plum First Class Preschool on Friday afternoon. "Come on in. I want to walk you around and show you that we're set up to prevent something like this from happening," she said. "Something like this" was Thursday's arrest of 29-year-old preschool teacher Brian Michael Lane on allegations he fondled a 4-year-old boy during nap time. ...more

June 6, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - High school seniors will get their reward this week for all those years of classroom time. ...more

June 4, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - There aren't many football coaches around who would publicly condone fisticuffs from his players, which was evident Friday night during the Sunlake intrasquad scrimmage. ...more

June 3, 2008

AVON PARK — An Avon Park woman remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $1,500 bond Wednesday, after police charged her with punching and robbing her ex in the parking lot of the Hendricks Corner grocery store. Cara Anne Parnell, 31, of 906 Palmer Ave., was booked on charges of robbery and domestic violence battery (with a previous conviction for domestic battery). The 57-year-old victim, an Avon Park resident living at a different address, reported that at about 8 a.m. Saturday, he was parked along the west side of Hendricks and was standing at his driver's side door, when Parnell got out of a blue vehicle and walked up to him demanding money, the report stated. The victim refused and was punched in his neck. Parnell walked away, but returned demanding money again. He told her he wasn't giving her any, the report stated. ...more

May 28, 2008