Brushing aside a chorus of opposition from evangelical groups, the city council today voted to expand anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals. ...more

November 19, 2009

The woman accused of choking a groom's 74-year-old grandmother during a wedding day fracas was arrested Thursday. ...more

November 13, 2009

Thank you for sharing your thoughts as we mark Veterans Day. ...more

November 11, 2009

Tasha Johnson and Markeith Brown exchanged vows. And the wedding party exchanged blows. ...more

November 10, 2009

The election of a new president always gets the connection game rolling. ...more

March 28, 2009

I knew our readers cared about Michelle Obama's fashion sense, but I had no idea how much. ...more

March 27, 2009

Each woman - Andrea Robertson, Melanie Snow and Robin Bonanno - has a twinkle in her eye when she talks about the thrill of racing cars. ...more

March 20, 2009

In the days before he killed five family members and five others in the worst massacre in Alabama history, Michael McLendon told a confidant he was unfulfilled and depressed by his failure to become a police officer or a Marine. ...more

March 12, 2009

"Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach," by Meryl Gordon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28) ...more

December 14, 2008

TAMPA A woman spent her 43rd birthday in jail, accused of striking her husband in the head with a bottle and trying to throw her grandmother to the ground, police said. Lilwanda Miller Thompson was held without bail today at the Falkenburg Road Jail, records show. She is charged with felony battery on a person over 65 and two misdemeanors, battery and resisting an officer without violence. ...more

December 4, 2008