Arcadia News

When you think of places where blueberries grow, you normally think of cold-weather locales such as Michigan and Maine.

Polk County will be getting more jobs and could become a leader in renewable and solar energies in the state of Florida.

Bailey Thurman didn't have far to go. In fact, the 13-year-old Punta Gorda resident was only two feet from ringing the bell of a 25-foot-tall rock-climbing wall on display at the Church of the Good Shepherd's Canterbury Faire Sunday.

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A man caught by police having sex with a woman in a parked car wound up in jail after he drove away, despite having a suspended license.

Major mistakes by an officer at the Arcadia Police Department may have lead to the dismissal of 13 drug cases in Desoto County.

"It is something that will give us sort of a transformational impact on how electricity is generated, delivered, and consumed," said Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change.

President Barack Obama toured the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center yesterday in Arcadia, Fla., where he announced smart-grid funding.

President Barack Obama will be visiting FPL's DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center near Arcadia, Florida on October 27, 2009.

William Burton is dead three decades now and his barbershop by the railroad tracks here is shuttered, but the old men still come every day, sunup to sundown, to the place they got their first haircuts.

President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday.

Deputies are investigating a fatal stabbing at an apartment complex on Trouble Creek Road in New Port Richey.

Area residents hoping to catch a glimpse of President Barack Obama when he visits DeSoto County Tuesday will be disappointed.

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Its name is impressively futuristic: The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center.

President Obama and administration officials on Tuesday will announce $3.4 billion in spending projects to modernize the nation's electric power system.

The impending arrival of President Obama did little to disturb the dusty antique stores or cause much hoopla in downtown Arcadia Monday.

A presidential visit is big news anywhere in America, but in a city so small that Friday night football games are still the weekly happening and politicians gather under the Tree of Knowledge, hearing "Hail to the Chief" at a presidential visit is the chance of a lifetime.

Fields of citrus groves and cattle ranches line the unchoked roads of DeSoto County, about one hour north of Lee, where President Barack Obama is expected to arrive Tuesday - the first presidential visit anyone there can remember.

President Obama has planned a visit DeSoto County to herald the opening of the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, Florida Power & Light's solar plant just north of Arcadia.