A few weeks ago, H. Doyle Harvill, though bed-ridden from the effects of a brain tumor, reminisced with characteristic bluntness about his newspaper days with a former employee. ...more

December 18, 2009

Philip Morris was ordered by a jury to pay $8 million in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a standard for some 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 18, 2009

Philip Morris should be ordered to pay more than $130 million to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could blaze a legal trail for about 8,000 similar Florida lawsuits, the family's attorney told a jury Tuesday. ...more

February 17, 2009

A jury decided today that a longtime chain-smoker's death from lung cancer was caused by nicotine addiction, a potentially costly loss for tobacco giant Philip Morris and an important test case for thousands of similar Florida lawsuits. ...more

February 12, 2009

Jesus Suarez, a Santeria priest, had slit the throat of one goat that June afternoon. He had three more goats, two sheep and 44 chickens to go. ...more

September 22, 2008

The music biopic is a genre that's so overly familiar - and so frequently addled with cliches - it's more than ripe for parody. (Look no further than the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," coming out later this winter.) ...more

November 22, 2007

TAMPA Not long ago, a co-worker caught my attention and, pointing to his computer screen, invited me to check out the subject line of a spam message he had received. ...more

September 27, 2007