There is no other freedom as we are enjoying here in the U.S.A. I have enjoyed 53 years of "the life" here and 49 years of this as a naturalized citizen. What a country. ...more

February 21, 2008

Khrystyne Ely is the starting pitcher and part-time outfielder for the Sickles High softball team. ...more

February 21, 2008

In his three previous years in the Sunshine Athletic Conference wrestling tournament, Hudson heavyweight Travis Tindell has collected championships, nothing less. ...more

January 31, 2008

Regarding "Denying Vote Now Part Of Party Policy" (Commentary, Jan. 27): I agree with Joe Brown that the refusal of both parties to seat the full complement of Florida delegates at their conventions is a disenfranchisement of the voters in the state of Florida. This year, the GOP is only half as bad as the Democrats, unlike in previous years. In those years, state elections officials, who were also the state chairs of GOP campaigns, did all they could to disenfranchise targeted voters in the election that counts - the one in November. ...more

January 29, 2008

The cities and arenas change and even the coaches are different, but there remains one constant when the University of South Florida men's basketball team goes on the Big East road: The Bulls don't return home with a win. ...more

January 18, 2008

Bayshore Boulevard is being transformed again this year into a pirate's paradise of beaded booty for children young and old. ...more

January 17, 2008

Accidents in China's notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday - a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years but still leaves China's mines the world's deadliest. ...more

January 13, 2008

Students and teachers in Hernando County are in for a strange week, to say the least. ...more

January 11, 2008

The latest mixed bag of news for retailers hails from cyberspace: holiday e-commerce sales were robust but showed their slowest-ever growth, industry analysts projected. ...more

December 31, 2007

Farmers are hot. At least from a culinary standpoint. Epicurious.com did its annual end-of-the-year assessment of where food is headed and found the concepts of locally grown food and organic cultivation continue to bring farmers a new kind of cool, editor James Oliver Cury says. ...more

December 26, 2007