Brand new holiday events are coming soon to lure more visitors to Werner Boyce Salt Springs State Park. Late night events will offer spooky fun during Halloween in the Woods in October, organized by the Salt Springs Alliance park booster group. ...more

September 3, 2008

Floridians are being urged to prepare for the hurricane season that begins Sunday, but this year, those stocking up on items such as plywood, tarps and flashlights won't get a break on sales taxes. ...more

May 27, 2008

Shopping the day after Christmas this year was no Black Friday, when throngs of bargain hunters lined up in pre-dawn hours. ...more

December 27, 2007

About 50 employees held hands and lined across a department store's entrance Thursday before parting to let a crowd of holiday shoppers enter for the first time since a gunman killed eight people there 15 days earlier. ...more

December 21, 2007

To deal with frustration among holiday shoppers hunting for its Wii game console, Nintendo Co. and retailer GameStop Corp. are launching a rain-check program. ...more

December 15, 2007

The holiday season can be especially challenging for people with allergies or asthma. The whirlwind of festivities with friends and family makes avoidance of symptom triggers more difficult. Examples of potential exposures that can aggravate asthma or allergies this time of year include: ...more

December 15, 2007

How can I avoid holiday allergy and asthma triggers? ...more

December 14, 2007

Buying toys just isn't fun anymore. Six months ago, store shelves were loaded with cheap toys and metal trinkets. Grabbing an inexpensive present was simple. Now, as retailers enter what are supposed to be the busiest sales days of the year, shoppers warily eye Elmo, Barbie and Thomas the Tank Engine. Metal trinkets are hard to find. At customer service counters, glossy ad displays have been replaced by wanted posters featuring some of the estimated 25 million children's products deemed dangerous. ...more

December 9, 2007

Buying toys just isn't fun anymore. Six months ago, store shelves were loaded with cheap toys and metal trinkets. Grabbing an inexpensive present was simple. ...more

December 8, 2007

Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims. ...more

December 8, 2007