Dear Abby: My husband and I just found out that his daughter and her boyfriend duped everyone - including us - with a formal, traditional wedding ceremony, but the "marriage" is not legal. They had no intention of being legally wed but felt that because they are having a baby, they were entitled to a wedding. ...more

November 30, 2008

Christmas isn't just for young children. It's also for teens, including the hundreds in foster care throughout Hillsborough County - some of whom arrived at their temporary homes with nothing more than the clothes they were wearing when they left abusive or neglectful homes. ...more

November 30, 2008

Florida's consumer services chief is counseling shoppers to keep cool heads in the maelstrom of holiday discounting. ...more

November 27, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August, according to a Pasco sheriff's office report. ...more

October 15, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August. Now, that man – Javon Corzell Jones - is sitting in the Land O' Lakes Jail awaiting trial on charges of armed carjacking, armed robbery and false imprisonment. He was arrested in connection to the summer carjacking Monday at the jail where he's been since Sept. 11 on other charges. Sitting in the front passenger seat, Jones, 27, ordered Capestany to drive to a mobile home park off of Alternate U.S. 19 just after 4:30 a.m., according to a sheriff's office report, and made him go inside the home. ...more

October 14, 2008

A judge has ordered a developer to turn over his financial records regarding Cory Lake Isles to a group of homeowners. ...more

September 10, 2008

A judge has ordered a developer to turn over all his financial records regarding Cory Lake Isles to a group of homeowners. ...more

September 4, 2008

Gene Thomason's attorney says the developer will be completely exonerated if his fraud case goes to court. ...more

August 20, 2008

Gene Thomason's attorney says the developer will be completely exonerated if his fraud case goes to court. ...more

August 15, 2008

When restaurant diners leave a tip for their waiters, they intend to recognize good service, not bolster a company's bottom line. ...more

August 8, 2008