So there we were, properly duded up in orange and blue and crammed together with 90,000 or so of our closest friends, ready for the victim du jour, in this instance the Arkansas Razorbacks. ...more

October 21, 2009

The name of Sam Horton, a longtime educator and local civil rights leader who died this month at the age of 79, will adorn the school district's Instructional Services Center on North 40th Street. ...more

April 22, 2009

In the case of the late Princess Diana, the woman made the clothes. ...more

November 14, 2008

Some Christian musicians prefer to play clubs or concert halls rather than churches. The idea is to avoid preaching to the choir. ...more

October 11, 2008

TAMPA - A woman who accused Hillsborough County detention deputies of abusing her when she was jailed in November 2006 was arrested again last week on a charge of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. ...more

June 9, 2008

Hospitals make the healer nervous, and before her lies a long institutional hallway. But she pushes forward, like she always does, because she has to. The man who needs her help is waiting. ...more

May 24, 2008

When Alex Fyffe played youth football in a league run by volunteers, his mother, Teresa Fyffe-Farmer, tackled unsportsmanlike conduct on the field and in the boardroom. ...more

January 23, 2008

Regarding "A Man Of Action" (front page, Dec. 23): Michelle Bearden's story on the Rev. Abe Brown and his statewide, multi-prison outreach conveys that he is one of Florida's greatest treasures. His determination to continue on follows the same designs of the late Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa in carrying on God's mission for them. In the early 1990s, the Rev. Brown convinced me to ride up on one of his "vintage" buses to the Ocala Correctional Institution on Christmas Eve. Seeing the joy on the inmate's faces was unbelievable! Together we were singing, sharing, hugging, gift giving and smiling in that stark jail cafeteria. It made for one Christmas that I'll never forget. ...more

December 27, 2007