Editor’s note: This is an edited version of the commencement speech given by Sen. Paula Dockery before the first graduating class of USF Polytechnic in…

BROOKSVILLE – With his no contest plea, a former youth pastor avoids prison and avoids having his name added to the sex offender registry. As…

SPRING HILL – The last of the forensics and drug testing is complete. Jacqueline Studer, a local Realtor, killed herself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound…

BROOKSVILLE He was legally prohibited from contacting his ex-wife. The lone exception was that he could message her about their child, but if he called,…

BROOKSVILLE – Law enforcement paid more than one visit to Brenda Edwards-Jackson. During the last 12 hours of Kenardo Frazer’s life, they kept getting calls…

Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. 2582 installed new officers March 31 with Past District Deputy Richard Ferguson presiding. Elected officers for the Lodge fiscal year, starting April…

BROOKSVILLE – A law named after Penny Mecklenburg’s husband got signed Friday, but she didn’t make it. She didn’t want her husband’s memory exploited for…

SPRING HILL – A 46-year-old man was killed Monday night after the car he was riding in overturned along Forest Oaks Boulevard, troopers said. A…

BROOKSVILLE – Hernando County Chairman Wayne Dukes said he has reached tentative agreement with Leonard Sossamon to take the vacant county administrator position. Sossamon has…

My favorite book is “A Land Remembered.” In addition to being a wonderful story, it is steeped in Florida history. Many of us who make…