No one ever lost an election or a vote in the Legislature overestimating Mike Fasano's charm. Whatever other skills the veteran lawmaker and current state senator brings to a political showdown, he packs them in a velvet glove. ...more

November 25, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - No one ever lost an election or a vote in the Legislature overestimating Mike Fasano's charm. Whatever other skills the veteran lawmaker and current state senator brings to a political showdown, he packs them in a velvet glove. ...more

November 15, 2009

four months after he could have shown that the future leader of the free world doesn't take instructions from some puffed-up pipsqueak party bureaucrat about where he can go, who he can speak to and when - the presidential candidate most of America wants to tap a keg with says he's ready to rally the Florida faithful. ...more

May 20, 2008

When it opened in 1948, it was billed as one of the most modern movie theaters in the South, with comfortable seats, a wide stage and a glass-enclosed "crying room" for cranky babies. ...more

December 19, 2007

The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin. ...more

September 26, 2007

The Heliopolis Club is an oasis of leafy green calm in the heart of the congested but upscale Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. ...more

September 15, 2007

The Heliopolis Club is an oasis in the heart of an upscale Cairo suburb. It is home to the family of Ahmed Mohamed, a 26-year-old student at the University of South Florida indicted on federal terrorism charges. ...more

September 14, 2007