With three generations of my family in Ybor City, my childhood memories are the catalyst for the ideal of a kinder, gentler society. ...more

March 15, 2009

In the days before he killed five family members and five others in the worst massacre in Alabama history, Michael McLendon told a confidant he was unfulfilled and depressed by his failure to become a police officer or a Marine. ...more

March 12, 2009

A 16-year-old Gibsonton girl reported missing has been found safe, deputies said this morning. Myra Enereyda Campos told her mother she was going to wash laundry on the front porch of the family's home at 8504 Symmes Road, Lot 3, on Tuesday evening and did not return. Her mother became concerned because the girl had never left home before. ...more

March 12, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are looking for a 16-year-old girl last seen Tuesday night doing laundry at her Gibsonton home. ...more

March 11, 2009

A gunman who killed 10 people in the worst mass shooting in Alabama history had a list of employers "who had done him wrong," including the nearby sausage plant he quit days before the spree and the metal factory where he shot himself, authorities said Wednesday. ...more

March 11, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are looking for a 16-year-old girl who was last seen Tuesday night doing laundry at her Gibsonton home. ...more

March 11, 2009

While working on the footers for a Habitat for Humanity home, Avon Park High School junior John Edwards finds he has a problem with wood splitting. ...more

March 4, 2009

How delightfully fitting that a Southerner, Mississippi's Eudora Welty, is so inextricably linked to the simple phrase "sense of place." ...more

March 1, 2009

Erin and John Ligori took time last week to stroll around the elegant custom-built house they purchased a year ago, where cats are allowed to hop up on the kitchen counters - dogs too. ...more

February 18, 2009

The father of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl said he and his 17-year-old girlfriend have passed polygraph tests, according to CNN.com. ...more

February 12, 2009