This week, millions of Americans shop in a mad dash to beat the holiday finish line. The seasonal chaos will ring up billions on credit cards, as our stockings are once more stuffed to bursting. It's the most wonderful time of the year, to be sure. ...more

December 23, 2009

A book has been mailed back to an Ohio library after six decades, accompanied by an anonymous letter of remorse. ...more

December 9, 2009

It's not an official reopening of the investigation, but family and friends spent Saturday searching for clues in the 2-year-old unsolved murder of Tracy McClelland of Tampa. ...more

November 15, 2009

His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill. ...more

November 8, 2009

A Seminole man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday for molesting two girls he lured through MySpace. ...more

October 29, 2009

A man punched and kicked a utilities truck in retaliation for the truck damaging his yard. ...more

June 9, 2009

Lion junior centerfielder Madison Manuel shifts into gear going 3-for-3 and driving in a game-high four RBI as the HCA finally snaps its hex against county rival Springstead, 7-5. ...more

March 24, 2009

Sen. Charles Grassley wants AIG executives to apologize for the collapse of the insurance giant — but said Tuesday that "obviously" he didn't really mean that they should kill themselves. ...more

March 17, 2009

Perhaps it was all the hoopla about the historic nature of Barack Obama's presidency. Maybe the hype of election night and all that talk about wishing our first black president well actually made us all believe, for just a fleeting moment in time, that things would not be as bad as we feared they would be. ...more

February 12, 2009

The case resulting from the November 2007 shooting death of Samuel Tiller has come to an end, with the third suspect being sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison. ...more

February 5, 2009