Starting New Year's day, chronically bad drivers in Florida will have to go back to school if they want to get back on the road. ...more

January 2, 2010

Fierce as they are, Tasmanian devils can't beat a contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them out. Now scientists think they've found the disease's origin, a step in the race to save Australia's snarling marsupial. ...more

January 1, 2010

Starting today, chronically bad drivers in Florida will have to go back to school, if they want to get back on the road. ...more

January 1, 2010

Hillis Brewer has been sober for 33 years; he's 68 now. He's been a barber nearly all his life - over 48 years spent cutting hair on Sarasota's Main Street, first in Brewer's Family Hair, where his dad worked with him, and later on his own in Hairstyles by Hillis. A little over three years ago, he retired but found he missed cutting hair, and so last spring, he hung a "Hillis is Back" sign in the storefront window of Jack's Barber Shop, an old-school, two-chair setup at 1658 Main, and went back to work. ...more

December 24, 2009

Help Wanted: Brave senator or senators willing to champion amendment creating fail-safe mechanism to control health care spending. ...more

December 18, 2009

For Jessica, the 14-year-old car might not have had a red bow around it, but it did represent not only Christmas present, but Christmas future as well. ...more

December 9, 2009

For Jessica Galarza, the 14-year-old car might not have had a red bow around it, but it did represent not only Christmas present, but Christmas future as well. ...more

December 9, 2009

For one team, there was the joy of a championship. For the other, there was the disappointment of coming so close to victory, only to see it evaporate. ...more

December 2, 2009

Hurt by a slow summer, Margarita Mama's, Banana Joe's and two other clubs at Channelside Bay Plaza fell behind on rent and have been evicted. ...more

November 28, 2009

Entertainers have been misbehaving on TV — or accused of it, at least — long before singer Adam Lambert was even born. ...more

November 24, 2009