Sometimes a diva attitude is healthy. Four-month-old Ava Snyder has a feisty temperament that makes her parents groan when they think about what she might be like as a teenager. She is fascinated by faces and will stare down anyone who comes into her hospital room. ...more

December 19, 2009

Sometimes a diva attitude is healthy. Four-month-old Ava Snyder has a feisty temperament that makes her parents groan when they think about what she might be like as a teenager. She is fascinated by faces and will stare down anyone who comes into her hospital room. ...more

December 16, 2009

Sometimes a diva attitude is healthy. Four-month-old Ava Snyder has a feisty temperament that makes her parents groan when they think about what she might be like as a teenager. She is fascinated by faces and will stare down anyone who comes into her hospital room. ...more

December 16, 2009

The state's new Powerball game is cannibalizing other lottery games but boosting overall sales, funneling an additional $31.5 million to schools in just two months. ...more

February 25, 2009

I recall when I was a young lad and our family of five children, later to be seven, lived with my grandparents during World War II. ...more

February 13, 2009

Relatives of a Tampa woman grieved today, recalling how they had learned late Tuesday that her body had been found in a vacant house in Lakeland. Jennifer Denise Johnson, 31, was reported missing Saturday evening after family members became concerned when she did not appear in time for her 2-year-old daughter's birthday party. The family scrapped the party, anxious and worried. ...more

November 19, 2008

Obituaries usually aren't about someone's death so much as about his or her life and family. From both standpoints, these newspaper notices are extremely valuable to genealogists. ...more

September 21, 2008

BARTOW - Leon Davis won the right to act as his own attorney when he stands trial in the slayings of five people during two attacks in December. ...more

September 4, 2008

With its emphasis on academic achievement and cultivating positive attitudes, the Youth Environmental Services program has been trying to lead young men down the right path and away from a life of crime since its inception in 1994. ...more

August 27, 2008

March Against Cancer May and Mother's Day have come and gone. The candy has been eaten, flowers have wilted and jewelry put away. However, there is still time to give your mother another gift - a gift of a lifetime. ...more

June 6, 2008