Diabetes increases the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease and may speed dementia. ...more

March 16, 2009

In the face of a lagging economy, the business of the Super Bowl isn't bogged down. The NFL Super Bowl outlet, opened in November next to WestShore Plaza, stood nearly empty Tuesday morning, two days after Pittsburgh beat Arizona, and people still streamed in. Where once there were two wide rooms full of merchandise, now there is only one, with a depleted selection of T-shirts, jackets, sweatshirts and pennants. ...more

February 3, 2009

Ybor City leaders today decided to keep the familiar name of historic Seventh Avenue: "La Setima." ...more

November 18, 2008

About five years ago, Maureen Kerr couldn't understand why her husband, Desmond, seemed so defensive and why they wound up arguing so much. ...more

November 17, 2008

Andy Argintar feels proud every time he spies his last name on the historic brick building in Ybor City that housed his family's clothing store for more than 90 years. ...more

October 6, 2008

Scientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease. ...more

August 30, 2008

Ex-Marine Robert "Bob" Childers' "Once a Marine, always a Marine" manner of loyalty transferred into an allegiance to the men and women of the Temple Terrace Police Department. ...more

June 21, 2008

SEBRING —Two of Highlands County's early agricultural pioneers in the citrus industry will have their names names written posthumously on the outside and inside of the Agri-Civic Center on George Boulevard. The old Highlands County Agri-Civic Center will be renamed the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Agricultural Center, if county Commissioner Don Bates' motion is approved at today's county commission meeting. In the same motion, expected to pass unanimously with no opposition, the commissioners also will rename the auditorium inside the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Agricultural Center the Sam Poltson Memorial Museum. The auditorium is the main meeting ...more

June 16, 2008

as millions of inspired souls know - was that time when the Lord picked you up and carried you. It's a metaphor, people: He is there when you need Him most, and so is the ubiquitous poem known as "Footprints in the Sand," shared around the world on posters, plaques, Bible covers and all things decoupage. ...more

June 15, 2008

About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and benches. ...more

May 12, 2008