It would be hard for health care reform to be in worse shape. What were once lofty promises to curtail the excess of a soulless group of health insurance companies has turned into what is almost certainly going to be a bonanza for those very same companies. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying desperately to salvage some aspect of the bill and even still it seems unlikely that any good will come from this "reform." ...more

October 31, 2009

Mark Landon, an actor and eldest son of "Little House on the Prairie" star Michael Landon, was found dead Monday at his home. He was 60. ...more

May 12, 2009

St. Patricks Day, March 17, marks the traditional arrival of the first king mackerel in the Tampa Bay area, and from the looks of things the fish should be right about on time again this year. ...more

March 13, 2009

Ted Stevens, a pillar of the Senate for 40 years and the face of Alaska politics almost since statehood, was convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges Monday - found guilty of accepting a bonanza of home renovations and fancy trimmings from an oil executive and then lying about it. ...more

October 28, 2008

New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams says she has confirmed a rumor that has been circulating this week: GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is going to appear on "Saturday Night Live." ...more

October 10, 2008

A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months for a network of charities that ferry patients to medical treatment. ...more

August 13, 2008

Corn blankets eastern Nebraska in the summer. Straight roads glide over the hills, dividing the fields like measuring tape. In the 19th century the Homestead Act sectioned the land into neat plots for new settlers. ...more

July 14, 2008

A 26-year-old man was charged Wednesday with stealing $800 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a supermarket last month. ...more

June 27, 2008

There's no fish - ever - that you can go out and catch for sure. But for the past several years, Spanish mackerel have been edging closer to the sure-thing category along Florida's west coast. Thanks to years of protection from gill nets, as well as modest recreational limits, there are now more and bigger mackerel than at any time in the past 30 years. ...more

June 6, 2008

They came by the thousands last week to Mike Holmes' Lithia-Pinecrest horse farm – on foot, in cars and zipping through cyberspace. Their mission: to help a man build a special house for his kids, three of whom are struggling with cystic fibrosis. ...more

May 20, 2008