Mother Nature appears to be the cause of the May 13 fire that destroyed Lake Placid's Main Street America Restaurant. ...more

June 2, 2009

VENICE - Daisy the cat could not join the Leonard family in the move back into their fire-damaged home Thursday, but she is still meowing thanks to a fire department rescue and the debut of a $70 piece of animal lifesaving equipment. ...more

March 27, 2009

It's funny, isn't it, that of the four people at Lakeshore Mall, asked about their most special Christmas memory, each involved a holiday with a mother, a father or a child. ...more

December 25, 2008

Fathers and mothers, newspaper editors and selective service boards worried about children and the impending war. On Dec. 21, 1941, the editorial page of the Tampa Sunday Tribune addressed several issues: "Supreme War Council," "Red Cross Needs Money" and "A Letter From Santa Claus." ...more

December 21, 2008

I think that judges and lawyers could arrange a "partners-in-law" joining of gay individuals so they could be united but not truly married, for marriage in part is a religious as well as a legal joining and there is no religion in a same-sex union. ...more

December 11, 2008

Two cute-as-buttons white tiger cubs born at Lowry Park Zoo in October are venturing into public, giving morning zoo-goers a glimpse of the rare pair. ...more

November 24, 2008

An 18-year-old man faces arson charges after setting his kitchen on fire with lighter fluid, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

November 7, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Some people don't know what they're going to do with their lives after they graduate from high school; luckily for recent grad Leah Lopez, she has known since she was 15. ...more

June 21, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Some people don't know what they're going to do with their lives after they graduate from high school; luckily for recent grad Leah Lopez, she has known since she was 15. ...more

June 21, 2008

TAMPA - The relatives of prominent Tampa businessman Don Wallace, whom he has accused of plotting to extort $1.2 million from him, turned themselves in tonight to Hillsborough County authorities. ...more

June 16, 2008