Last week we were sitting in our home office getting ye olde office work done when a Gmail instant-message popped up. ...more

November 8, 2009

A man lingering outside his rundown home flashed a badge in hopes of discouraging a deputy from questioning him. ...more

September 17, 2009

Nature's own privacy fence isn't made of vinyl or even wood. It's grass. As in something Alice In Wonderland might have skipped through. ...more

November 7, 2008

Pasco County officials and the sheriff's office remain at odds over how best to use inmate labor for county projects. ...more

September 14, 2008

County officials and the Sheriff's Office remain at odds over how best to use inmate labor for county projects. ...more

September 10, 2008

County officials and the Sheriff's Office remain at odds over how best to use inmate labor on county projects. ...more

September 5, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

My all-time favorite commercial is the one from a few years back where a father with an ear-to-ear grin is pushing a shopping cart through a Staples store, gleefully tossing in school supplies as his dejected children follow glumly behind and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays in the background. ...more

August 18, 2008

Maybe you haven't noticed, maybe you have. State highways in Polk and Hillsborough counties are getting a little shaggy around the edges. The reasons grass is not getting its usual trim vary. ...more

August 7, 2008