Traffic dramatically increased on Beacon Woods Drive shortly after the Wal-Mart Supercenter opened, so county officials are considering an additional left-turn lane into a parking lot entrance for the store. ...more

May 10, 2008

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

Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treating winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding. ...more

February 18, 2008

Riding in a white Toyota Corolla, a group of thieves went from parking lot to parking lot Wednesday night, robbing or attempting to rob four people at gunpoint, police said. ...more

February 15, 2008

Ravi Jakhotia asked his parents for a drum set when he was 12. But when his father said no, he threw himself on the floor at Kmart. ...more

February 3, 2008

What kind of people read the Recipes Lost & Found column? You could describe them as "collectors." Others might use the words "culinary pack rats." ...more

January 30, 2008

Sears Holdings Corp. abruptly announced the departure of President and chief executive Aylwin B. Lewis on Monday, leaving a management void at the top of the department store chain controlled by chairman Edward S. Lampert as it tries a high-stakes restructuring to reconnect with customers and reinvigorate slumping sales. ...more

January 29, 2008

Sears Holdings Corp., the owner of the Sears and Kmart retail chains and Kenmore appliances, will reorganize into separate business units after a year of sales declines and dwindling profit. ...more

January 22, 2008

More evidence of a dramatic slowdown in consumer spending surfaced Monday, as Sears Holdings Corp. warned a drop in sales would result in a profit shortfall and the world's largest retail trade group issued a downbeat sales forecast for 2008. ...more

January 15, 2008

This isn't one of those pet-friendly rivers they go tubing on in Ohio and Wisconsin. You don't float this river on your $4.95 Kmart raft with Sparky splashing alongside it. ...more

December 27, 2007