Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock Co., possibly Florida's oldest business and a fixture on the Miami River for more than 80 years, has mothballed its boat-repair operation. The problem, say the owners: the weak economy. ...more

January 2, 2010

Kip O'Neill's Gulf coast neighborhood is overrun with peacocks ...more

December 27, 2009

A former appellate judge wants Crist to appoint his replacement from a list of six nominees even though none is black. ...more

March 30, 2009

Annual folk music festival will be held in Dunnellon. ...more

March 26, 2009

DOG RACING Derby Lane TONIGHT'S ENTRIES 1st - Gr. C 550 Yds

February 23, 2009

Alvah H. Chapman Jr., a giant of the newspaper industry who helped Miami rebuild after Hurricane Andrew, died of pneumonia on Christmas Day. He was 87. ...more

December 29, 2008

"They blazed trails across the skies, flying over oceans, opening airport "stations" in far-flung lands and greeting presidents and celebrities onboard Clipper jets," wrote Ina Paiva Cordle on Pan Am, who began flying in 1927 and ceased operations liquidating in the last part of 1991. ...more

December 8, 2008

WHAT TO EXPECT After a dismal 2006-07 season that saw the Gators go 9-22 and 2-12 in the SEC, not much was expected of the Florida women's basketball team last season. ...more

November 9, 2008

Back in Malden, Mass., in November of 1942, my father, Mac, won two tickets at the Malden Elks Club for the Boston College-Holy Cross football game, to be played at Fenway Park in Boston on Saturday, Nov. 28. The BC team was undefeated and leading the nation while featuring a powerful sophomore fullback named Mike Holovak, from the coal mining town of Lansford, Pa. ...more

November 2, 2008

The proud peacocks of Micanopy Street know nothing of the trouble they are in. ...more

September 22, 2008