The journalist and author was in the Daytime studio. ...more

June 4, 2009

Country music star Brad Paisley has found inspiration for songs in some unexpected places. So why not the name of his second child? ...more

May 5, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — News media reports say Justice David Souter plans to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the court's term in June. ...more

May 1, 2009

Three dozen winners highlighting enormous changes in the communication media were announced Wednesday in the 2008 Peabody Awards. ...more

April 1, 2009

"Unbelievable," by Stacy Horn (Ecco, $25) In the 1930s, a group of scientists led by J.B. Rhine opened a laboratory at Duke University that focused on one purpose, at least initially. That purpose was to finally answer the "survival question" - whether there is actually any sort of life after death. Seeking an answer led members of the Duke Parapsychologist Lab to conduct experiments involving telepathy, poltergeists and psychic powers. ...more

March 29, 2009

Six weeks after saddling her horses and hitting the road, Donna Byrne is on the verge of a milestone. If the weather is right, she'll cross the Florida-Alabama border tomorrow, nearly 450 miles from where she started in Arcadia. ...more

March 17, 2009

Six weeks after saddling her horses and hitting the road, Donna Byrne is on the verge of a milestone. ...more

March 16, 2009

Obama Listens To Us Let's give President Obama at least a B+. The Republicans are upset with him, the Democrats are upset with him and the lobbyists are upset with him. How refreshing that the president is listening to the America people with a 65 percent approval rating and not the establishment good old boys and girls. ...more

March 3, 2009

President Barack Obama's assurance Tuesday that his mortgage-relief plan will only benefit deserving homeowners appears to be a stretch. ...more

February 25, 2009

It is apparent Sonny LaRosa does not like to be interviewed. He hands a reporter a sheaf of clippings. "It's all there," he says, noting that reporters always ask the same questions. The 82-year-old LaRosa can be forgiven. As founder of America's Youngest Jazz Band, a group of Suncoast 4- to 13-year-olds who know how to make sweet notes on trumpets, saxophones and other instruments in the style of the Big Band era, he has had to contend with nosey reporters for 30 years. ...more

February 21, 2009