The toyish charm of the Smart car is even more charming when you call it an orphan. ...more

April 1, 2009

The toy-ish Smart car is even cuter when you call it an orphan. Built by Daimler, which also makes Mercedes-Benz, the toaster-sized Smart cars, which get between 33 mpg and 40 mpg, made a splash in the U.S. car market just over a year ago, as gasoline prices topped out at over $4 a gallon. ...more

March 31, 2009

Recession forces people to abandon their exotic animals ...more

February 23, 2009

$48 million Budget for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief for the next five years ...more

January 11, 2009

Anything worth doing should be worth doing three times. That's the theory behind our Mrs. Harvey's White Fruitcake Haiku Contest. ...more

November 21, 2008

The number of foreign children adopted by Americans fell 12 percent in the past year, reaching the lowest level since 1999 as some countries clamped down on the process and others battled with allegations of adoption fraud. ...more

November 18, 2008

Bloomingdale head football coach Jason Stokes thinks of his senior linebacker as a bit of a contradiction. Chris Curran is only 5-foot-9 and 175 pounds, but he plays like a 6-3, 260-pound Division I recruit. ...more

November 5, 2008

Bloomingdale head football coach Jason Stokes thinks of his senior linebacker as a bit of a contradiction. ...more

November 5, 2008

Roswitha Browne has three homes - Switzerland, the United States and now Tanzania, where she is returning for a third time to help orphaned children. ...more

October 13, 2008

"I think Sean might be dead," the girlfriend said. Mike and Deb Gilbert were teaching a class at Grace Family Church in Lutz when they got the phone call in late July a year ago. Sean was their youngest child, 18 years old, beautiful and troubled. ...more

August 16, 2008