grandparents, mother, myself, five siblings, aunt, uncle and two cousins from Michigan, along with the Kinderman family (four people). The big draw in Hernando was basically two things: the great weather; and it was cheap to live here, for a fairly nice, quaint region. ...more

February 22, 2008

The choice wasn't easy, but it was a simple one. Either jump in, or the woman clinging to the side of the Howard Frankland Bridge would certainly die. ...more

January 29, 2008

TAMPA - A Tampa police officer jumped into Old Tampa Bay from the Howard Frankland Bridge on Monday night to save a woman who had been clinging to a piling and crying for help. ...more

January 29, 2008

Surrounded by dozens of beachgoers, a 120-pound loggerhead sea turtle nicknamed Charlie Brown returned to the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after a trip in the back of a pickup from Clearwater Marine Aquarium. ...more

October 18, 2007

Regarding 'Rally At Tampa House Pitches New Exemption' (Metro, Sept. 18): The superexemption rally shows everything wrong with home ownership here. Politicians create exemptions in taxes, pretending the lost revenues won't be collected elsewhere. Insurance companies gouge owners and the legislative response is dubious at best. Meanwhile, everyone ignores the third guilty party: sellers. Realtors, shady lenders, seedy flippers, gullible buyers and greedy owners have created a housing market 33 percent overvalued in the Bay area (Local Market Monitor). ...more

September 18, 2007