Social Security checks are going up $63 a month for the typical retiree, the largest increase in more than a quarter century but likely to seem puny to the millions who have been watching in horror as Wall Street lays waste to their retirement nest eggs. ...more

October 17, 2008

"Can't" perhaps becomes the biggest hurdle for blind people. For a quarter century, Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind has been the beacon for some 20,000 people to find a path out of darkness. ...more

September 3, 2008

Joe Taylor considers coaching his ministry. He might need a miracle to restore football glory overnight at Florida A&M. ...more

August 29, 2008

Humbled by a cold, George Michael said the Saturday night's audience might not get the best of him but would get the best he could. ...more

August 2, 2008

PLANT CITY As area berry farmers begin to prepare the fields for a new season, their state trade group has completed its nationwide search for a new leader. ...more

August 1, 2008

Shipwreck salvagers have recovered a gold chalice while searching for the wreckage of a Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys. ...more

June 26, 2008

The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday. The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because too many of the justices had investments or other ties with those corporate giants. ...more

May 13, 2008

A Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed Tuesday, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections. ...more

May 7, 2008

Robert Vesco, the American fugitive who cooked up moneymaking schemes that allegedly involved everyone from Colombian drug lords to the families of U.S. presidents, died in Cuba and was buried almost six months ago, according to an official document. ...more

May 6, 2008

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its projection for economic growth this year, citing damage from the double blows of a housing slump and credit crunch. It said it also expects higher unemployment and inflation. ...more

February 21, 2008