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Recent low temperatures in Selma have forced the young FFA students at Selma High to pick their navel oranges early this year. "With the deep freeze coming, if we didn`t pick the oranges, it would`ve ruined them," said Melissa Land, co-advisor for the Future Farmers of America at Selma High.

LAND O`LAKES - The man selling $4 buckets of grapefruits, oranges and tangerines out of his pickup truck on State Road 54 sure looks familiar. Nah, can`t be Mr. Allen.

The red numbers on the digital display are zooming higher and higher as the mechanical roaring reaches a rattling crescendo. I feel like an astronaut at re-entry time, desperate for those digits to stay below circuit-melting point: 148... 192... 270... 298... 330... 386... 401. "Abort! Abort!" I yell at my washing machine as the spin cycle climaxes. The wet laundry slumps in the drum and the ...

DESOTO COUNTY -- Sure, Florida can take up some of the slack for the ravaged California citrus crop, but that doesn`t mean it is going to be easy.

Pull up a plastic patio chair under the palapa at Zipper`s Bar & Grill on the southern tip of Mexico`s Baja California peninsula and it becomes a front-row seat to the edge of the world. A dazzling blue sky meets emerald waters. Surfers and palm trees aside, little else comes between you, your Pacifico beer and the horizon. Impossibly close to the sea, Zipper`s sits directly on Costa Azul beach, ...

As a coach and administrator, Ron Allen was Type A. Now in retirement, it`s Type O, for orange.

This week is the start of the West Coast`s biggest boat show, at two locations.