I am not one of those people who, upon hearing the description of some exotic disease, suddenly twitch with several applicable symptoms. Hypochondria and illness-envy are not among my personality quirks. ...more

November 4, 2009

Ten local golfers are being sought to help with research by Morton Plant Mease Health Care and a local sports psychiatrist. ...more

May 16, 2009

Art Hernden was 15 and conspicuously open to suggestion. Oh, sure, like most of his peers growing up within the penumbra of Detroit astride the World War II globe, his imagination was powered by the internal combustion engine and all that could be linked to it. ...more

March 15, 2009

When a baseball player hits for power and average, and displays speed on the base paths, he is indeed someone special. ...more

January 11, 2009

GO FISHING is a look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Billy Nobles, left, with "Reel Animals" partner Mike Anderson. ...more

December 20, 2008

Forecasters extended a hurricane watch north to Tarpon Springs as Tropical Storm Fay grazed the southern coast of Cuba and headed on a path that could take the storm just west of Pinellas County as a hurricane. ...more

August 17, 2008

"Everybody wants to be a lure designer," the late Jim Bagley once told me. "And just about everybody is." ...more

June 13, 2008

Tom Curran is astonished at the response. The morning anchor at WTVT, Channel 13, had been reading his e-mails. ...more

February 7, 2008