While other student musicians were in full swing in the band room at Stewart Middle School, 14-year-old Benjamin Pittman sat tucked away in the band director's office, staring at a computer screen and caught up in a musical world of his own. ...more

November 21, 2009

An infrared device originally used to help troops detect suicide bombers is now available for local law enforcement agencies, and the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has purchased two of them, according to a spokesman for the company selling them. ...more

March 17, 2009

Russell Peck got to utter the words he'd hoped to say at Progress Energy's open house on the proposed new transmission lines Wednesday evening. ...more

January 16, 2009

It's a new year, all right, but economically, it still feels a lot like the old one. Seems that everywhere you look, things are being downsized: companies, paychecks, parties, trade shows and on and on. ...more

January 12, 2009

Before the high-tech age, the only way citizens could see their government leaders in action at weekly business meetings was to drive to downtown Brooksville and be there promptly at 9 a.m. when the gavel banged and the proceedings got under way. ...more

December 19, 2008

In this Twittering, podcasting, digital age, the morning after America's presidential election found thousands of people clamoring for something more old-fashioned and tangible: extra copies of the morning paper. ...more

November 6, 2008

Are you beginning to get the feeling that everywhere you go someone is watching? ...more

October 17, 2008

Tiny diagonal lines squiggle across a computer screen, where 80-year-old Larry Martin sits at the ready. ...more

September 21, 2008

When she began teaching math 30 years ago, Norris Johnson didn't even own a computer. ...more

June 4, 2008

It takes doctors and nurses at Oak Hill Hospital barely more than an hour to administer, diagnose and treat patients with chest pains. ...more

May 19, 2008