No one was injured in a DeSoto City house fire Sunday morning that started in the fireplace and spread to the attic. ...more

December 22, 2009

My wife and I would like to know what our old bowl is worth. It is hand-painted with raised decoration. It is marked with a green "M" enclosed in a wreath and "Noritake." ...more

November 29, 2009

Theosophist Judith Snow will present a program at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 on near death experience (NDE) at the Lake Placid Memorial Library, 205 W. Interlake Blvd. ...more

November 13, 2009

The stately restrooms in the Tampa Theatre may date back to the 1920s, but they are among 10 vying for the current title of America's best public restroom. Nova 535, an art gallery in St. Pete, is also among the finalists in the contest sponsored by the Cintas Corp. The two local restrooms are up against the restrooms in Radio City Music Hall, the Drake Hotel in Chicago, the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore and the Venetian Resort's Zeffirino Ristorante in Las Vegas and others. ...more

June 3, 2009

Ride the trolley or pedal a bicycle for an up-close, personal look at the "early years" of one of Tampa's historical bungalow neighborhoods. ...more

March 30, 2009

My 9-inch plate is marked "H. Alcock & Co., Cobridge, England" and "LEAM." I have been able to discover on the Internet that the plate was made in August 1885. However, I cannot find information about Alcock. What can you tell me? I also would like to know its value. ...more

March 29, 2009

The sides of the rectangular pit revealed a cross-section of earth: gray and lumpy on top, smooth yellow sand underneath. ...more

March 18, 2009

The sides of the rectangular pit revealed a cross-section of earth: grey and lumpy on top, smooth yellow sand underneath. ...more

March 14, 2009

Steve Maxwell didn't really understand much about the equipment that he was buying back in 1968, but it became the machinery for Maxwell Groves, which is the last registered packing house in Highlands County. ...more

March 13, 2009

Two years of renovating their historic Gulfport home have made Gail and Robert Wilson, and their house, a neighborhood attraction. Bordered by a white picket fence and new landscaping, the two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath home has undergone enough changes to shock the neighbors - in a good way. ...more

February 27, 2009