Many racial caricatures and stereotypes have disappeared over the years, such as African-American mammy or Sambo characters, or the Frito Bandito frowned upon by Hispanics. Now Ruby Beaulieu and American Indian Movement supporters intend to crusade to retire what she calls "racially offensive" stereotypes and caricatures of Native Americans that still linger at Chasco Fiesta. ...more

March 18, 2009

American Indian Movement is planning to conduct a "peaceful" protest at the Chasco Fiesta street parade on March 21. ...more

March 14, 2009

American Indian Movement is planning to conduct a "peaceful" protest at the Chasco Fiesta street parade on March 21. ...more

March 12, 2009

Some tails will be wagging at the thought of the new PETCO store in Port Richey. ...more

October 8, 2008

It's not that the crime thriller "Righteous Kill" is spectacularly awful. It's just thoroughly mediocre - a standard police procedural, a long episode of "Law & Order," unremarkable but for the pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. ...more

September 14, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. ...more

July 26, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. In another, police Chief Chuck Harmon's head has been put on an obscenely overweight body, and the chief is looking intently at a two-layer cheeseburger. Maj. Melanie Bevan appears as both a dominatrix and as the Wicked Witch of the West. These are among more than 180 computer-altered images internal affairs investigators collected as they looked into an allegation that a police officer had posted them online. They were made available today as the result of a public information request. ...more

July 25, 2008

Had he not retired, a St. Petersburg police officer would have been fired for posting degrading computer-altered pictures of police administrators and others on a Web site popular in the law enforcement community, according to a memorandum released this afternoon. ...more

July 24, 2008