This week you told me about your experiences in waiting rooms at Tampa Bay area hospitals in response to a column about a personal experience with an 87-year-old woman. You wrote me about what I think is every hospital in the region, from Sebring to Ocala. ...more

February 10, 2009

One could be forgiven for crawling into a fetal position to begin sobbing like a Bronte sister while sucking a bottle of Boodles gin dry after hearing the leader of the free world confidently predict the $700 federal bailout of the nation's financial system will work like a fine Swiss watch. ...more

September 30, 2008

Robert Temple has a different story to tell from a day in 1999 when he proclaimed innocence in the death of his wife, Rosemary Christensen. ...more

September 19, 2008

Robert Temple let his girlfriend go to her out-of-state family reunion with a caveat: If she didn't return to their travel trailer in Northern California, he would kill himself and their autistic daughter, Pinellas sheriff's authorities said. ...more

September 11, 2008

Rosemary Christensen has been missing for nine years, but investigators this week recovered her body and are preparing to arrest Robert Glenn Temple, her husband when she was last seen. ...more

September 10, 2008

"This so-called news article is so one-sided and vindictive it's absolutely disgusting," decried valued reader grskeeter, who took umbrage at a column suggesting that when her effort to get the county mayor initiative on the ballot faltered recently, local lawyer Mary Ann Stiles might well have enjoyed a well-deserved stiff Boodles martini - or two. ...more

August 17, 2008

Just before the tornado hit, the Boy Scouts were gathering on the porch of a shelter, playing cards and waiting out what many of them thought was just a pelting rain. In a matter of moments, a Scout leader, hearing a faint tornado siren, hurried them inside, and then, as he stared out the open door and saw the twister in the distance, ordered them to dive under tables, survivors said. ...more

June 13, 2008

There's nothing like a good blood feud to tell you spring training has officially arrived. We probably should give Carl Crawford and Delmon Young pistols at 10 paces and let them settle this thing for good - although Delmon might prefer bats. He has a pretty good aim with those. ...more

February 22, 2008

"I'm Gene Deckerhoff along with Dave Moore and this introduction for today's Tampa Bay Buccaneers game was just brought to you by eHarmony.com, for when you are looking for that special person in your life." ...more

January 8, 2008

The championship dream finally died for No. 1 Missouri. The Oklahoma Sooners showed the Tigers just what it takes to win a title: defense and a bruising running game near the goal line. ...more

December 2, 2007