In seven years of environmental detective work for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Bob Ankenbauer says, he never saw anything as alarming as the abandoned APF Industries chemical lab littered with open jars of acid and cyanide. ...more

October 24, 2009

Seventeen years ago, Tiffani Conway raised eyebrows when she was voted homecoming queen by fellow students at Brandon High School. ...more

October 22, 2008

A one-time Brandon High School homecoming queens sees the honor become a family tradition. ...more

October 21, 2008

"It's a shame we only make it here every eight years," Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder told a Forum crowd of 13,746 Wednesday night. ...more

June 13, 2008

It took Todd Bodine 17 years to get his first victory at Daytona International Speedway. ...more

February 16, 2008

Seventeen years ago, the Humane Society named Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, with its caged animals and sparse grounds, one of the 10 worst zoos in the country. ...more

November 6, 2007

Seventeen years living in Maryland, and I'd never seen Point Lookout. I love the Eastern Shore, but the communities along the Upper Chesapeake? New to me. ...more

November 4, 2007