If Mike Swaine wants to record a document, he walks across Commerce Street, from his attorney's office to Highlands County Courthouse. ...more

March 5, 2009

Voters in Florida's 67 counties elect a clerk of the circuit court to oversee a host of duties, such as receiving and disbursing court fees. ...more

February 27, 2009

Pasco-Hernando Community College risks losing $58 million in state funding for a Wesley Chapel campus because of a dispute with the owners of Wiregrass Ranch about where to put a satellite location. ...more

February 26, 2009

State Rep. Denise Grimsley, R-Lake Placid, is backing Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County's drive to save a $2.5 million housing grant threatened by state budget cuts. ...more

February 23, 2009

Fourteen-year-old Tariq Sharrieff doesn't understand teachers who try to be friends with their students. ...more

February 22, 2009

Fourteen-year-old Tariq Sharrieff doesn't understand teachers who try to be friends with their students. ...more

February 21, 2009

BARTOW (AP) - U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam would rather be in Florida. Joined by friends and family Thursday in his Bartow hometown, the 34-year-old former state legislator and five-term Republican congressman formally announced his plans to run for Florida agriculture commissioner. ...more

February 20, 2009

On the north steps of Polk County's historic courthouse in Bartow, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam officially announced today that he is running for Florida's commissioner of agriculture. ...more

February 18, 2009

Progress Energy Florida has delayed a rate increase meant to help pay for construction of a nuclear power plant not long after it sets an all-time high for peak demand. ...more

February 18, 2009

Many Floridians are howling mad about legislation that would mandate sterilization of dogs and cats, and they should be. ...more

February 16, 2009