Love cats, but take issue when the stray you started feeding brings home a passel of friends? Or worse, has a bundle of kittens? ...more

December 17, 2008

Joey Putnall, a second-grader at Jackson Elementary in Plant City, has courted the waves since he was knee-high to a sand flea and the only thing dragging him down was a soggy diaper. ...more

December 2, 2008

Joey Putnall, a second-grader at Jackson Elementary in Plant City, has courted the waves since he was knee-high to a sand flea and the only thing dragging him down was a soggy diaper. ...more

December 1, 2008

Wall Street suffered its second big drop in a week Wednesday, with investors worried about spreading fallout from the credit crisis at banks and about a dollar that just keeps getting weaker. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 360 points - just about matching its pullback Nov. 1. ...more

November 7, 2007

MARTIAN CHILD ** Martians have landed, or at least one Martian. Instead of slimy and tentacled as in 'The War of the Worlds,' this Martian is cuddly, adorable and just troubled enough that John Cusack can't help but want to kiss away his psychological boo-boos and play dad to him. ...more

November 2, 2007

Talk about changing the rules of the game. These are frustrating, uncertain times for local officials trying to figure out budgets, priorities and property-tax scenarios - without the state Supreme Court messing with their toolbox. In this case, Strand v. Escambia County, the Florida Supremes have unanimously decided to fundamentally alter the way or tax increment financing, or TIF, money can be spent. ...more

September 24, 2007