Cassandra Serine and her two teenage children already were planning to leave Thomasville, Ga. They say they wanted more from their lives and their church. They found it on God TV, live from Lakeland. ...more

May 10, 2008

Evangelist Todd Bentley's revival in Lakeland is moving spirits and keeps moving the closing date, lengthening the Pentecostal "Florida Outpouring" as interest and attendance mount. ...more

May 8, 2008

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its projection for economic growth this year, citing damage from the double blows of a housing slump and credit crunch. It said it also expects higher unemployment and inflation. ...more

February 21, 2008

LAKE PLACID — On Henscratch Road, a column of smoke moved from east to west, with the wind. Eight days later, the fire is still simmering. Two blocks away, behind Bert Dawson's mobile home on Grand Concourse Drive, there's more smoke. "Yesterday, the wind started it up again," said Dawson, who paused while building a deck between his home and his mother's travel trailer. "Little fires. I got on my 4-wheeler and went back there." Behind his ranchette, there's a hammock of pine and hardwood trees, and the underbrush is as thick as it gets in Florida. Somewhere — Dawson thinks it was east of his home — the Henscratch fire started on Feb. 11. ...more

February 19, 2008

There will be detours galore throughout the county in the coming weeks as CSX works on nearly all of its numerous railroad crossings. ...more

February 16, 2008

Facing its biggest deficit of the season in a hostile environment, No. 4 Duke showed its resilience in denying Maryland another upset. ...more

January 28, 2008

WRESTLING Springstead preps for districts by humbling Hernando, 58-19 SHS's SOTO, COOK, BLISS, COX, RAMIREZ ALL PIN ...more

January 27, 2008

PINELLAS PARK - A 25-year-old homeless man died eight days after being stabbed while in a wooded area, police say. ...more

January 2, 2008

After arriving in Tampa late in the evening on Christmas Day, the Wisconsin Badgers began preparation for their New Year's Day Outback Bowl meeting with Tennessee with a practice Wednesday afternoon at Jefferson High, aimed primarily at adapting to the Florida sunshine. ...more

December 27, 2007

With just eight days left to break a three-way deadlock in the Democratic race in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York began delivering a closing argument Wednesday that centered around the experience she and her husband gained in the Oval Office. ...more

December 27, 2007