"The Faraday Girls: A Novel," by Monica McInerney (Ballantine Reader's Circle, $13.95) ...more

November 25, 2007

For Florence Sikes, taking care of the 121-year-old Hackney Cemetery is taking care of family. ...more

November 19, 2007

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has revoked the license of a Hillsborough County adult family care home and fined its operator, Daphne Jones, $20,000 after an agency investigation of allegations that she moved residents from her sprawling riverfront home to a cramped boarding home in West Tampa. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - The Agency for Health Care Administration has revoked the license of a Hillsborough County adult family care home and fined its operator, Daphne Jones, $20,000 after an agency investigation of allegations that she moved residents from her sprawling riverfront home to a cramped boarding home in West Tampa. ...more

November 8, 2007

William Naiden William Naiden, 52, suffers from schizoaffective disorder. He left New Hampshire two years ago in pursuit of warm weather. ...more

November 2, 2007

At 91, Olivia Pitts Jackson was the boarding home's oldest resident. She arrived Feb. 27. That day, the Tampa Housing Authority evicted her and her husband from public housing. John Jackson, 47 - "God told us to marry," she says - hadn't responded to the agency's annual review to see whether they still qualified for public housing. So they had to go. ...more

November 2, 2007

SEBRING — A Sebring woman was free from the Highlands County Jail on Monday on $1,000 bail after she was arrested on a third-degree felony child neglect charge. Sheriff's investigators claim she abandoned a 2-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome into the care of a local woman for more than a month. ...more

October 3, 2007

The calendar may say summer is almost over, but pets around Tampa Bay are still in danger of heatstroke. ...more

September 22, 2007