For-profits and non-profits have put together a number of free and discount programs to help financially strapped pet owners take care of -- and keep -- their animals. ...more

January 1, 2010

Their lists to Santa included an Easy Bake oven, a football and the Littlest Pet Shop toys. ...more

December 30, 2009

Their lists to Santa included an Easy Bake oven, a football and the Littlest Pet Shop toys. ...more

December 30, 2009

Their lists to Santa included an Easy-Bake oven, a football and the Littlest Pet Shop toys. ...more

December 28, 2009

As children, players pined for gifts under the Christmas tree, hoping Santa would heed their wish list. ...more

December 25, 2009

Their lists to Santa included an Easy Bake oven, a football and the Littlest Pet Shop toys. Hammond Elementary second-grader Sophia Biddle helped fulfill the wishes, telling her mother that buying and wrapping the gifts made her feel like one of Santa's elves. Presents piled in 7-year-old Sophia's living room, stacked almost as tall as her, with tags signed "Secret Santa." She had started saving her allowance in October for Christmas gifts for her family, but her plans soon changed to involve seven children she had never met. ...more

December 23, 2009

Bringing a merry Christmas to children in need was the object of two special projects in Pasco schools last week. ...more

December 19, 2009

Members of the Riverview Detachment Marine Corps League joined forces with Marines from the 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion in Tampa to collect toys for the Toys for Tots drive at the Dec. 7 hockey game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Washington Capitols. ...more

December 16, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A group of Rodney B. Cox Elementary School students received some early Christmas gifts this week, got to pet a python and a French bulldog and learned what it takes to work with animals. All for a song. ...more

December 10, 2009

Children from Hope Children's Home got a taste of the holiday during a recent Christmas luncheon. ...more

December 9, 2009