About seven months ago, local professional wrestling personality "Roughhouse" Ralph Mosca decided it was time to lose some of the 285 pounds that had accumulated on his 6-foot-2-inch frame. ...more

December 6, 2008

NASA has set a May date for its space shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope for a final time. ...more

December 4, 2008

Olie Kolzig was treated Monday like the homecoming king in high school who everybody wants to see at the 10-year reunion but winds up as the victim of a class-planned practical joke. ...more

November 11, 2008

PHILADELPHIA — Game 2 of the World Series was a thud on television. ...more

October 24, 2008

The Tampa Bay Rays' improbable season continued Wednesday night on Major League Baseball's biggest stage with Game 1 of the World Series at Tropicana Field. ...more

October 23, 2008

Dear Abby: After 12 years on the West Coast, my husband and I moved back East last year with our 3-year-old son, "Adam." My parents, my husband's mom and our siblings live here, and we wanted Adam to know his family. ...more

October 5, 2008

For the past seven months, John Castelamare Sr. has had to fight through conditions derived from a weakened heart. ...more

September 30, 2008

Life dealt Samuel Stockdale a rough hand. His biological parents were addicted to drugs and alcohol, forcing him into foster care at a young age. The Stockdale family adopted him when he was 9, but abandoned him when his behavioral problems continued. ...more

September 25, 2008

Reference is made to the Sept. 12 article in which the sheriff's attorney, Mike Durham, described the leader of a controversial evidence audit as "a disgruntled former employee." If Mr. Newell was a disgruntled part-time employee of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, it is apparently the first time in his reported 34 year career as a law enforcement officer that he had been, as described, "disgruntled." ...more

September 21, 2008

Seven months ago I needed my teenage son to explain YouTube to me. Now I'm not only appearing on YouTube but also writing proposals for others to do so. ...more

September 20, 2008