It was a familiar scenario: The run was blue, the sky bluer still, and I was cruising down 8,765-foot Mount Whitehorn in Banff National Park in Canada. Packed powder was flying up from the edges of my snowboard into the just-below-freezing air. I was grinning beneath my ski mask. ...more

January 11, 2009

Florida AVERA-CLARKE HOUSE B&B, MONTICELLO Located in one of ABC-TV's Most Haunted Small Towns, this B&B is a popular stop on the local walking tour. You just might see ghostly vestiges of the Honorable Judge Thomas Clarke, a local banker, appear in unusual ways. www.bedand breakfast.com/florida -monticello-averaclarkehouse bedbreakfast.html ...more

September 28, 2008

When Barbara Terry fell behind on her mortgage payments earlier this year, she did the previously unthinkable. Through a local housing organization, she and her daughter, Imani, 9, rented part of their single-family house to a stranger. ...more

August 3, 2008

Deputies hunted for a man Thursday afternoon accused of smashing the front windows of a house and attacking the people inside. ...more

June 27, 2008

Deputies hunted for a man Thursday afternoon accused of smashing the front windows of a house and attacking the people inside. ...more

June 27, 2008

Huckabee Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth In 2005, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee asserted that an immigration bill proposed by then Arkansas Sen. Jim Holt, was un-Christian and anti-life. The state Senate bill called for the banning of state services for illegals, required proof of citizenship to register to vote and required state agencies to report suspected cases of people living in the country illegally. ...more

January 22, 2008

After a woman verbally rejected a Tampa man who entered her bed and touched her inappropriately, he grabbed her by the neck, choked her and threatened to kill her, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

November 4, 2007

BBC World News (British Broadcasting) is a good source to find what is happening in the world and how that affects the United States. The 45 year old Cuban embargo has cost Fidel Castro 89 Billion dollars. The embargo has caused China to race to Cuba's rescue with busses for public transportation. Dictator Hugo Chaves has engaged his country to supply Cuba with petroleum to fuel Cuba's vehicles. ...more

October 6, 2007