It might have been the Rays' first appearance in the World Series, but the game they played Wednesday night against Philadelphia looked awfully familiar. ...more

October 23, 2008

The game was tied late Sunday night in the bottom of the fifth, and the next innings were going to bring either euphoria or despair for the Rays. That's when Rocco Baldelli walked to the plate to face Boston's Jon Lester in the deciding game of the American League Championship Series. ...more

October 22, 2008

Lost Without The GPS This past weekend, the PW and I spent an awful amount of time learning how to get around on the streets of an unfamiliar location without our navigation device. We were in the Ellenton area where the tanker truck destroyed the bridge over State Road 301 on the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 last week. Our motel was located in the Prime Outlets Mall area, within a half mile of the accident. Thank goodness we had a few friends who were familiar with the area and gave us maps to use to get around most of the congestion. Even so, it was impossible not to get into some standstill traffic jams. But before we left Sunday morning, the authorities had devised routes and some rerouting of traffic, which made traffic flow almost normally. ...more

June 12, 2008

DeSOTO COUNTY - A worker servicing the county wastewater treatment plant's filters discovered the arm of a human fetus and placenta Saturday afternoon, Arcadia police said. ...more

October 16, 2007