It galled her to do it, but Texan Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, Billy Gene Dillon, please confess, she wrote. ...more

November 9, 2009

Attention seniors: For the first time in history there will not be an increase in the Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA). There may not be any for the next three years. That does not mean your Social Security benefit will stay the same, it will decrease! Your Medicare premium will increase from $96.40 to $104.20 in 2010 and to $120.20 in 2011. Your part D cost will probably also increase. But Congress voted themselves a big raise, between $4,700 and $5,300. ...more

October 16, 2009

The 400 or so members of the Suncoast Cycling Club love their sport, and they use it to support many good causes with fundraising events throughout the year. ...more

February 16, 2009

Park visitors don't have to bother with lines or crowds when they venture into the African nightlife on Busch Gardens' new Serengeti Night Safari excursion. ...more

November 22, 2008

Ever have one of those trips? The kind with two flat tires? Where the air conditioning in the car goes kaput right when the temperature hits 97? Where you think you left your wallet at the last rest stop? Where you drive around lost for an hour, and when you finally ask for directions the guy just laughs? ...more

June 14, 2008

POLK CITY - The usually unremarkable pulse of workday traffic on Interstate 4 seized to a hellish halt Wednesday morning, when opaque fog and smoke triggered a chain of crashes that killed at least four people and injured 38. ...more

January 10, 2008

A group of 17 endangered whooping cranes landed in north Georgia after a weeklong rest stop at a wildlife refuge in Tennessee. ...more

January 5, 2008

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A group of 17 endangered whooping cranes has landed in north Georgia after a weeklong rest stop at a wildlife refuge in Tennessee. ...more

January 4, 2008

Thick, smelly crude oil washed up on an 11-mile stretch of scenic coastline Saturday, blackening seagulls and threatening fish farms as South Korea's Coast Guard struggled to contain the country's largest oil spill. ...more

December 9, 2007

CLEARWATER - Karen Triplett carries the weight of more than a dozen people on her back, and she didn't flinch a bit when she volunteered to do it. The names of those people, written in black on a pink background, are on her back today as she begins the 60-mile walk from Sand Key through Clearwater that eventually will end in St. Petersburg on Sunday afternoon. ...more

October 19, 2007