JAGUARS ...24 CHIEFS ...21 David Garrard threw for 264 yards, including a 61-yard touchdown to Mike Sims-Walker, to lead Jacksonville. The Jaguars, up and down all season, responded in similar fashion following losses to Arizona and Seattle earlier this season. The latest turnaround after a defeat came after Coach Jack Del Rio ripped his team's defensive effort in a 30-13 loss at the Titans, calling it "insulting, ugly and embarrassing." It worked, at least against Kansas City. Playing without RB Larry Johnson, the Chiefs managed little offense until late in the fourth quarter when Matt Cassel threw for two scores. ...more

November 9, 2009

Ciara Johnson is a big Miley Cyrus fan who wants to pursue a singing career. ...more

October 24, 2009

Ciara Johnson is a big Miley Cyrus fan who wants to pursue a singing career. The soft-spoken Carrollwood teen could move closer to that dream if she wins a recording contract in a contest sponsored by the "Hannah Montana" star. ...more

October 23, 2009

Pants to party gowns were the fashions of the day when the Tampa Palms Women's Club held its annual charity fashion show and luncheon. ...more

April 22, 2009

I would like to offer a public thank you to The Heartland Association of Realtors for their sponsorship of the Relay For Life Fashion Show. ...more

March 14, 2009

On March 7, the Heartland Association of Realtors sponsored its third annual Celebration of Life for the American Cancer Association. What a beautiful, uplifting event it was. Realtors and cancer survivors modeled clothes from Dress Barn and survivors modeled gowns from Dillard's in Lake Wales. Juan Pablo Alverade and his team of hair stylists and make-up artists worked on all the models and the women looked and felt beautiful. There were over 90 volunteers involved in this fashion show behind the scenes. When you find out that you have cancer, many thoughts go through you mind, one of them is, "will I live through this?" What with chemo and other treatments, loss of hair, etc., on Saturday these survivors looked in the mirror and beautiful women looked back at them. I know this because I'm a two time cancer survivor and I'm a 29-year survivor. ...more

March 13, 2009

Davis Named District 13 POY Academy of the Holy Names senior Katie Davis has been named the girls basketball FACA District 13 Player of the Year. ...more

February 25, 2009

Dorian Dillard, one of the two men charged with killing two homeless men in St. Petersburg in 2007, told his defense attorney he didn't want the case to go to trial because he didn't want the families of the victims to experience any more heartache, his defense attorney said in court today. ...more

February 25, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Lisa Michelle Dillard, a woman charged as an accomplice in a fatal purse-snatching in November, is accused of snatching a purse weeks earlier. ...more

January 24, 2009

Lisa Michelle Dillard, the woman charged as an accomplice in a fatal purse-snatching in November, is accused of snatching a purse weeks before. After seeing news reports about the mugging and subsequent death of Linda Roma at a TJ Maxx in Hudson, another victim recognized Dillard as the woman who also snatched her purse Nov. 8 at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Port Richey, according to a report. ...more

January 23, 2009