An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday that he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities. ...more

August 27, 2008

In her more than 10 years as a member of the Florida Association of City Clerks, Temple Terrace City Clerk Lisa Burns has served the organization in many capacities and has received numerous accolades from her peers. ...more

August 27, 2008

As Tropical Storm Fay ambled onto shore near Naples, Bill Knab and his wife watched and listened. When Hurricane Wilma hit the area in 2005, they estimate their home suffered more than $100,000 damage. The Knabs say that compared to Wilma, this storm was a "nonevent." Still the Naples residents did see some minor street flooding. ...more

August 19, 2008

Is there a way to get my condominium documents without paying the management office for them? Maybe there's an Internet site where I can download them? ...more

August 14, 2008

When the Bloomingdale and Palma Ceia/Interbay/Tampa Bay junior softball teams arrived for the state championship game in Viera last week, they were met by a ruling from Little League headquarters. ...more

July 30, 2008

A dinner to raise money for the Jean-Claude Meus Defense Fund starts at 5 p.m. today at Homer's buffet, 1000 Sebring Square. ...more

July 26, 2008

It took Sunday's Heartland 2008 Triathlon winner Kevin Erndl one hour, one minute and five seconds to swim a quarter mile, bike 14 miles and do a 3.1-mile run. ...more

July 14, 2008

We just received a letter from our board of directors telling us it is approving a special assessment to provide for delinquent accounts that are in foreclosure and bankruptcy. Is this legal? ...more

July 3, 2008

An endangered loggerhead sea turtle illegally taken from Florida by a Minnesota tourist is back in its native waters. ...more

June 29, 2008

On a boardwalk in the wild Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a visitor recently stepped on a slick spot of something, possibly bird droppings, and slipped and fell. She got up and filed a lawsuit against the National Audubon Society, owner of the sanctuary east of Naples. ...more

June 20, 2008