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A Family Bible Comes With A Sacred Trust

It was a cold, snow-driven night on the plains. Only two sounds filled the cabin - the crackling from the fireplace and the whimpers of a newborn baby. The new father sat at the kitchen table and, by the light of a single oil lamp, entered into his Bible the date and the birth of the newest family member. ...more

March 29, 2009

Charleston: Sanctuary In The Holy City

Charleston's architectural and culinary treasures restore a frazzled mother's faith in calmer times to come. ...more

March 13, 2009

Guatemalan Midwives Key In Push For Safer Births

Guatemala is trying to reduce the number of women who die during childbirth by providing basic medical training to some 15,000 lay midwives in villages across the country. ...more

September 20, 2008

North Port Couple Have Special Delivery On I-75

Clay and Becky Halbert of North Port planned to have a midwife deliver their son at a Sarasota medical center. Things did not go according to plan. ...more

August 18, 2008

Ruskin Marks 100 With Centennial Celebration

Perhaps the best measure of Ruskin after 100 years is its people. Forged by pioneer families who plucked a living from land and sea, the community has an enduring character that, in many ways, remains the same, despite encroaching development. ...more

August 6, 2008

Former '60s Girl Singer Back On Stage

She's almost half a century older now, but Lucy Ellis still can belt out the songs she sang as a member of a girl band in the 1960s and '70s. ...more

August 6, 2008

USF Nursing Instructor-Doctor On Call For Disasters

During his 49 years, he's been proud to be, by turns, a University of South Florida nursing instructor, a disaster relief expert, a physician, a registered nurse, a paramedic, a Navy corpsman and a McDonald's burger-flipper, dreaming of becoming the boss. ...more

July 14, 2008