Abuses of prescription painkillers is a hard pill for state lawmakers to swallow. So-called "pill mills" have transformed much of Florida into "the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market," state Rep. John Legg said in a press release. ...more

October 24, 2009

Immigrant advocates are urging retailers to pull a Halloween costume depicting a space creature in orange prison garb emblazoned with the words "illegal alien." A group that supports strict immigration laws says such a move impinges on freedom of speech. ...more

October 21, 2009

South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. ...more

October 9, 2009

Pow! Kablooey! "Looks like it might be over, Batman!" DC Comics has filed notice that it is withdrawing its federal lawsuit brought in July against a Bradenton man who made figurines of characters from the 1960s "Batman" television series. ...more

September 22, 2009

A man secretly videotaping women at department store was caught by the store's surveillance camera and arrested Thursday night, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 11, 2009

Five years ago today, Hurricane Charley veered from its long-forecast target of the Tampa area and rammed into Charlotte County as a Category 4 storm. ...more

August 13, 2009

Back to School! ...more

August 11, 2009

New products your cat will love. ...more

August 10, 2009

Highlands Today will never be the same. For that matter, neither will Sebring and Lake Placid. On Aug. 1, one of Highlands Today's most prolific letter writers passed away after a long drawn out battle with leukemia. He put up one heck of a fight while maintaining a positive outlook. ...more

August 10, 2009

Where better than space to test a new odor-eating underwear? ...more

July 31, 2009