A former military instructor at Sarasota High School was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring a student into sex acts. ...more

October 16, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — A former military instructor at Sarasota High School was sentenced to 12 years in prison for luring a student into sex acts. ...more

October 15, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Last year, Paul Martinez never would have scaled a utility pole, scrambled up a rock wall or flown down a zip line into a pool. ...more

October 15, 2008

When she was in her mid-20s, Denise Grimsley, now 48 and a registered nurse, never dreamed she would get involved in politics. That changed when her father became ill in the mid-1990s and she stepped in to run his petroleum and convenience store businesses. ...more

October 12, 2008

WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain, trailing in polls and searching for a way to gain ground, assailed Democratic rival Barack Obama on Friday in a sharply worded TV ad that said: "When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied." ...more

October 10, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that questions about Democratic rival Barack Obama's association with a former war protester linked to Vietnam-era bombings are part of a broader issue of honesty. ...more

October 10, 2008

The city will demolish a nearly 70-year-old abandoned house where police found a woman's badly decomposed body in March. ...more

September 19, 2008

Who says exercise has to be dull? Not any of the people in the Zumba fitness classes at Gills Family YMCA in Trinity and the New Port Richey SunTrust YMCA. ...more

September 14, 2008

"The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British," by Sarah Lyall (Norton, $24.95) ...more

September 7, 2008

Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate. ...more

September 1, 2008