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

A 20-year-old Titusville man was sentenced to four years in prison today after authorities said he sexually assaulted his grandparents' Yorkshire terrier in Clearwater. ...more

November 25, 2008

A Sebring man was free Monday on $30,000 bail after he was arrested and accused of writing checks for more than $15,000 from his 94-year-old grandmother's checking account. ...more

October 21, 2008

When homemaker Jane Liggett wanted to buy a house to restore in 1976, she drove through Hyde Park with a banker who couldn't believe she wanted to invest in such a blighted area. ...more

September 5, 2008

The blood trail led from his 81-year-old grandmother's bedroom out to the pool. ...more

August 4, 2008