An area accountant has accused her former partner of civil contempt, thus leading to a non-jury trial that began Wednesday in the Highlands County Courthouse. ...more

January 29, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI gave World War II pontiff Pius XII a push toward possible sainthood Thursday and defended his memory from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust. ...more

October 10, 2008

Joseph H. Brown's at it again. Nearly six years after an overwhelming majority of Floridians voted for Florida's workplace smoking amendment, he's still railing against it, as he did on May 18 in these very pages. He's still cherry-picking evidence to say we're all a bunch of idiots for voting for the amendment while ignoring thousands of reputable studies, easily available to anyone with access to Google, that say we're right. ...more

May 29, 2008

With his allegiance to dewy-eyed innocence and earnest sentimentality, illustrator Norman Rockwell has often been mocked for creating an America that never was and never will be. ...more

December 31, 2007

Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months. They also want the firm to pay $8 million in compensation to families of each of the 17 people killed when its guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine gun fire last month. ...more

October 9, 2007