I know from personal experience how difficult Social Security's disability process can be. When my father was 52, he suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage caused by a rare form of brain cancer. As I took care of the application for him, it opened my eyes to the complicated rules associated with our disability programs. ...more

February 17, 2008

TAMPA - When storms were hammering most of Florida on Tuesday, the weather service's alert radio system for Melbourne and Orlando went off the air, one for more than four hours. ...more

February 13, 2008

Newly hired Hernando County Administrator David Hamilton will start his new duties even sooner than expected. ...more

February 13, 2008

Investigation Urged Do Pasco County residents have environmental and health concerns in their backyard? The contaminant of concern is molybdenum. ...more

February 8, 2008

Democrats in the midst of their own roiling presidential nomination fight followed President Bush's State of the Union address not so much with a response as with their own theme of bipartisan cooperation. ...more

January 29, 2008

Only three of the 10 recruits the University of South Florida hosted this weekend weren't already committed to USF. ...more

January 28, 2008

In Community's Interest Regarding "USF Can't Achieve Greatness If Branch Campuses Run Amok" (Our Opinion, Jan. 11): ...more

January 17, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's deputies continued to search for answers Tuesday in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Monday. ...more

January 8, 2008

In his two turns as prime minister in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif tried to endear himself to Pakistan's people with populist policies and did little to please the United States and other foreign allies. He might yet get the chance to repeat that role. ...more

January 2, 2008

This was not what you wanted to see from the Bucs two Sundays before the playoffs begin. ...more

December 24, 2007