TAMPA BAY DOWNS WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS 1st - Purse $11,300, Claiming $10,000, 3yo & up, 1 1/16 miles. ...more

December 17, 2009

Greater New Port Richey Main Street's 'Shop 'n Stroll' events usually are meant to showcase the city's downtown district in a positive, leisurely light. The way the downtown booster group is planning on doing it this time around, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday is guaranteed to make people see red. ...more

March 11, 2009

Patricia Rossi shows us the proper way to network yourself. ...more

March 11, 2009

Some Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High parents have agreed to take a portion of the school's students "under their wings" in an effort to show them positive behaviors. ...more

January 7, 2009

Dear Abby: My daughter, "Giselle," is scheduled to have serious surgery soon, and she has forbidden us to come to the hospital. She wants only her husband to be there. ...more

January 4, 2009

After reading Bud Morgan's recent editorial titled, "Doesn't anyone apologize anymore?" I am compelled to point out that the precondition for an apology is the recognition that one had done something inappropriate, a breach of manners, a mistake, a faux pas. However, the current style of "in your face" deception currently in vogue does not admit error, as amply demonstrated by our soon to be replaced president and vice president. When asked what he considered to be his greatest mistake, President Bush was hard pressed to find any fault or flaw in his disastrous administration. When the absence of WMDs in Iraq was called to his attention, his response was "So what?" Apologize? ...more

December 30, 2008

The last thing Lexi Smart recalls is going out with friends and trying to hail a taxi. "'Remember Me" by Sophie Kinsella finds Lexi waking up in a hospital in a new year and she cannot remember anything at all about the past three years. Her amnesia is so severe she barely recognizes her mother and sister and is stunned to find out that she had an executive job and is married. She views a DVD of the wedding but it rouses no memories. Her husband is handsome and rich and agrees to let Lexi come home and have the master bedroom to herself until they become reacquainted. Lexi begins to find her way cautiously in her new life and thinks she is doing well until a handsome architect named Jon tells her they have been secret lovers and that she was about to leave her husband for him before her accident. Lexi is attracted to him but has no memory of him but she does eventually decide that she and Eric are not compatible. She leaves her job and decides to start her own company, to revive battered old friendships and maybe try her luck with Jon. ...more

December 17, 2008

'A Cautionary Tale' Regarding "A Life Shattered" by Geoff Fox, June 29: How many times have you guys been with a female companion, and a strange male made some remark about her? Usually it's a guy with a group of guys. ...more

July 13, 2008

They gawked at alligators at Homosassa Springs. They marveled at the mighty U.S. space program on display at Cape Canaveral. ...more

May 12, 2008

Two adoption advocates make first trip to the U.S. to visit the former orphan they helped place with a Brooksville family. ...more

May 11, 2008