More Internet users are communicating on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter than by e-mail, according to a study by Nielsen Media Research. ...more

March 10, 2009

What Caitlin wanted did not seem complicated. She had signed up for Facebook after she married, as Caitlin Shaw. Now, to make it easier for old friends to find her, she wanted to add her maiden name, Batman. ...more

March 8, 2009

A Winter Haven man was spared the death penalty Thursday for his role in the 2006 slaying of a Polk County drug dealer. ...more

March 6, 2009

One of five Polk County teens accused of beating a classmate last March was sentenced this morning to one year of probation. Britney Mayes was sentenced as a juvenile by Circuit Judge Keith Spoto at the Polk County courthouse in Bartow. ...more

March 5, 2009

Facebook is trying its hand at democracy. ...more

February 27, 2009

Insane. Childish. Disaster. And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night. ...more

February 25, 2009

There was drumming coming from the multipurpose room, a French cafe set up next to one of the classrooms, and the seventh-grade orchestra filled the courtyard at Williams Middle School. ...more

February 25, 2009

If the U.S. Postal Service has its way, people will be getting mail only five days a week. ...more

February 24, 2009

It's just wonderful. Every day now I get up, go to work, turn on my computer and there they are, just waiting to be my friends. ...more

February 20, 2009

NEW YORK - Tens of thousands of Facebook users are protesting new policies that they say grant the social-networking site the ability to control their information forever, even after they cancel their accounts. ...more

February 17, 2009