Perhaps the best way to understand how it could be possible for more than 10,000 people with criminal records to win state approval to work in the mortgage business is to think of Florida as historically sort of the Al-Qaida of real estate. ...more

July 26, 2008

The third Conversations & Cocktails event, designed as a networking and social activity for professional women 25 to 35, will be Aug. 6 at Nordstrom's at International Plaza. ...more

July 23, 2008

"Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)," by Jared Bernstein; Berrett-Koehler, 225 pages ($26.95) ...more

July 20, 2008

Not all love stories are traditional. "Same Time, Next Year," a play by Bernard Slade, tells the story of a man and woman who leave their spouses behind to spend a weekend together once a year for 25 years. Their affair evolves into more than a physical relationship. ...more

July 12, 2008

Not all love stories are traditional. "Same Time, Next Year," a play by Bernard Slade, tells the story of a man and woman who leave their spouses behind to spend a weekend together once a year for 25 years. Their affair evolves into more than a physical relationship. ...more

July 12, 2008

If Army Pfc. Norman "Ehren" Murburg III left a legacy for his family and friends to follow, his father says, it was this: ...more

June 20, 2008

AVON PARK — "Tap, tap, tap" went the stick on the edge of the basketball rim as Special STARS athlete Bobby Talley took aim for the hoop. ...more

June 19, 2008

"Get Smart," which began its life on TV as a classic sitcom that cleverly satirized Cold War espionage, has been transformed for the big screen into just another standard action picture. ...more

June 19, 2008

Give the man credit. Mike Martin still had his sense of humor late Saturday afternoon, even after witnessing a ninth inning that should make a coach cry. ...more

June 15, 2008

A Valrico man is keeping a sense of humor about the job Mother Nature did remodeling his home. He came home from work Thursday to find a 60-foot tree poking through his bedroom ceiling at 1903 Cimmaron Run Drive. ...more

June 13, 2008