A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black. ...more

December 13, 2008

With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in a bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 8, 2008

TAMPA - With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in the cramped bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 7, 2008

It began as a feud only a child could invent - teenage chest-thumping over who had the right to sneak across a golf course after dark and scoop lost balls out of a pond. ...more

December 8, 2007