There's lots of complaining and finger-pointing when it comes to high gas prices. But in the 35 years since our first experience with price spikes and short supplies during the OPEC embargo in 1973, our vehicles have gotten bigger and the miles we drive has increased. ...more

February 23, 2008

SEBRING – Sebring attorney Jim McCollum said people who don't think about the future will be stuck in the past. McCollum, who has been practicing law in Sebring for 35 years, thought ahead by bringing in two attorneys. Mia Mancinelli and J.L. Perez joined the firm last year. The firm will be known as McCollum, Mancinelli and Perez P.L. Mancinelli and Perez are considered members, which McCollum described as the "functional equivalent" of a partner. "I realized what a great job these guys had done and thought it was appropriate to put their names on the door," McCollum said. ...more

February 10, 2008

A man with a truckload of friends is wanted in connection with a Friday afternoon bank robbery that netted an unspecified amount of money. ...more

February 9, 2008

A man with a truckload of friends is wanted in connection with a Friday afternoon bank robbery that netted an unspecified amount of money. ...more

February 8, 2008

Award-winning artist Terry Klaaren is an acrylic painter. So are a lot of people. ...more

January 30, 2008

SEBRING – Whenever someone moves to another country, the adjustments of language, food, culture and customs are overwhelming. Dr. Kye Pahk arrived from Korea in 1967 and interned in Nashville, at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and then in Orlando. In 1973 a Sebring internist, Dr. Robert Rengarts, encouraged him to move here and open his practice in urology. Softening the uphill challenge of starting a new business was the fact that when Pahk came here he was the only urologist in Highlands County. His practice grew and within two years he was able to add a partner. ...more

January 28, 2008

John Susor was a certified colorful character. He looked like Ernest Hemingway; he married nine times; and he was known for carrying a gun in Mahuffer's, the ramshackle Gulf Boulevard bar that was his business and home for 35 years. ...more

January 16, 2008

Sometimes, it's difficult to grasp the magnitude of a winning streak until it's over. And so it is when considering the Brandon High School wrestling team, whose incredible record of 459 straight victories ended Saturday with a loss to Homestead South Dade. ...more

January 8, 2008

Mercury Morris played online football Saturday night, calling plays for the New England Patriots and New York Giants while trying not to think about the stakes. ...more

December 30, 2007

In December 1973 I was living in a halfway house for alcoholics and I was complaining that we should have a Christmas tree. So two Al-Anon ladies brought us a little three-foot artificial tree that we could set on the mantle and all the men seemed to enjoy it. After the holidays someone took it down and put it in a shed out back of the house. ...more

December 25, 2007