TAMPA - When the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, 14-year-old Phillip Michael Pearson told his mother he wanted to join the military as soon as he graduated from Alonso High School. ...more

July 19, 2008

Three billboards in the Orlando area that depict New York's World Trade Center in flames with the words "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat" are the work of a St. Cloud songwriter and commercial painter who is marketing his latest song. ...more

July 16, 2008

It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record. ...more

July 7, 2008

Patti Schwartz knew where her family was on Sept. 11, 2001. Her daughter, Jennifer Levine, was by her side in West Hempstead, N.Y. Her son, Andrew, was out of the city and her husband, Mark, an emergency medical technician, was not scheduled to be working near downtown Manhattan. ...more

July 5, 2008

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups. ...more

July 3, 2008

Patti Schwartz knew where her family was on Sept. 11, 2001. Her daughter, Jennifer Levine, was by her side in West Hempstead, N.Y. Her son, Andrew, was out of the city and her husband, Mark, an emergency medical technician, was not scheduled to be working near downtown Manhattan. ...more

July 2, 2008

In what has become a Brandon musical tradition, the First United Methodist Church of Brandon music ministry will present its annual Fourth of July concert Sunday. ...more

June 28, 2008

The aviation industry - in a rare challenge to a fellow private-sector enterprise - has begun to focus on oil speculators as a chief cause of what it calls its worst-ever economic crisis. ...more

June 26, 2008

The Correct Choice I am sure most people remember where they were and who they were with on Sept. 11, 2001. In January 1986, I can recall where I was and who I was with when the Challenger blew up. ...more

June 21, 2008

For 15 years, Sharon Kearney O'Loughlin traveled into Manhattan every day from her Long Island, N.Y., home. The commute, door to door, was 21/2 hours each way. ...more

June 21, 2008