Grateful, happy, excited, humbled and exhausted "American Idol" contestant Syesha Mercado rolled through Tampa, Bradenton and Sarasota on Friday on a "surreal" homecoming tour. ...more

May 10, 2008

Syesha Mercado, showing more personality than she's ever revealed on "American Idol," rolled into Tampa early today for what she calls "a most surreal" homecoming. ...more

May 9, 2008

I grew up in north Georgia knowing that my grandmother was born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1882. Her Hulsey family traveled there in 1881. Unfortunately, I was too young to be interested in genealogy when my grandmother was alive and never asked about her childhood. ...more

January 20, 2008

Jai Lucas could only laugh and shake his head at the thought of the tongue-lashing he and his University of Florida teammates had just endured. ...more

November 28, 2007