It's not easy to ask people to volunteer at the busiest time of the year. ...more

December 13, 2008

Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win. ...more

November 23, 2008

including more than 100 in downtown Tampa - rallied at 1:30 p.m. Saturday to protest bans on marriage and adoption approved by voters in four states. ...more

November 16, 2008

"The 19th Wife," by David Ebershoff (Random House, $26) ...more

September 7, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in an occasional series profiling South Shore residents. ...more

June 11, 2008

"Most of what follows is true." That's the opening of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," the 1969 movie about two bandits born as the sun was setting on the old Wild West. ...more

May 25, 2008

An 80-year-old former advertising and publishing executive, Thomas S. Monson, was named on Monday to be the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one week after the death of the previous president, Gordon B. Hinckley. ...more

February 5, 2008

The president of the Mormon church was remembered Saturday as a "giant among men" who cared deeply for others and devoted his life to the work of his faith. ...more

February 3, 2008

Every Wednesday, hundreds of young Mormon men and women not far removed from high school arrive on the campus of Brigham Young University, where they are severed from family and text-messaging and entrusted with the very future of their faith. ...more

February 2, 2008

Mormonism's home is America, but most of its believers don't live here anymore. ...more

January 29, 2008