Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden has canceled a planned appearance in Lakeland because of his mother-in-law's death, according to the Barack Obama presidential campaign. ...more

October 5, 2008

Half A Loaf Housing slump? ...more

September 25, 2008

I'm probably not the right person to ask for olive oil advice as it's not used in Asian cooking. (Though I'm sure the Sherpas can spew out more opinion and facts about olive oil than you have time for.) ...more

September 17, 2008

When it set sail on its maiden voyage in 1936, the Queen Mary was the most celebrated ocean liner since the ill-fated Titanic of 1912. ...more

September 7, 2008

While political polls suggest that voters are split evenly on who should serve as their next president, everyone informally interviewed by Highlands Today at the Lakeshore Mall food court on Friday, agreed that the campaign runs too long. ...more

August 31, 2008

Funeral services are scheduled Friday for Margaret V. "Peggy" Woodard, mother of Mark Woodard, Pinellas assistant county administrator, and the mother-in-law of Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio. ...more

August 21, 2008

Funeral services are scheduled this week for Peggy Woodward, mother of Pinellas assistant county administrator Mark Woodward and mother-in-law of Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio. ...more

August 20, 2008

He was never one for distractions, endlessly preaching to his players the virtue of a mind that can overcome any ordeal. "There are no small plays when we are doing it," U.S. men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon would forever tell his players. Hardly words of great insight but a window into the soul of a man who disdains the kind of clutter that pulls an athlete down. ...more

August 11, 2008

Jorge Roque endured life in the Kuwaiti desert as his Marine Corps unit waited for the signal that the war in Iraq had begun. He survived as friends died fighting their way into Baghdad. He witnessed the famous toppling of the city's statue of Saddam Hussein. ...more

July 4, 2008

TAMPA - A 24-year-old man used his mother-in-law's handicap decal to park at Wal-Mart on Tuesday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 18, 2008