BELLEAIR BEACH - A mother and her daughter today stumbled upon military ordnance — and, as it turns out, a live grenade — as they were cleaning out the mother's garage, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

May 2, 2008

Last Monday we drove past the Kenilworth Lodge road sign. The message for the day read something like, "Today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. Just toss it all on the floor!" Back home, feeling comfortable at our messy desks, we checked it out on our computers. Sure enough, the second Monday in January is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. It has been since 1982 when Ann Chase Moeller, daughter of the Chases (of Chase Annual Event Calendar fame), wrote it into their record book. According to Organizing Resources, "Desktop management is critically important to our well being - physically, mentally and psychologically." They say, "It is extremely difficult to concentrate on a particular task when bombarded with myriad piles of paper. The only papers that should be on your desk are the ones you are referring to at that particular moment. The only miscellaneous objects should be ones you use all the time, except for a few special mementos and a living plant." ...more

January 18, 2008

Hazel and Tom Martin reached their 75th birthdays this year - Hazel on Sept. 8 and Tom on Dec. 5. ...more

December 17, 2007

The decades of preserving his family's history, collecting antiques and spreading generosity haven't gone unnoticed. ...more

November 26, 2007

They are lined up like footnotes to the names etched on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial's polished black granite, leaning against its base, some a collective tribute to the fallen, others bearing a message for just one of the dead. ...more

November 11, 2007

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near-universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded. ...more

November 10, 2007

O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he thought was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising chapter in his legal saga. ...more

September 15, 2007

For 18 years, William 'Bob' Peterson dutifully made the drive twice a week to the repair shop at the Museum of Science & Industry. ...more

September 8, 2007