TAMPA - Ken Nyfong's mailbox sits atop sturdy dock pilings along Apollo Beach Boulevard, part of a front-yard landscaping scheme of thick round posts stuck into sandy ground. ...more

November 16, 2007

More than 5,000 trick-or-treaters attended Trick or Treat Street at Riverview High on Oct. 27. ...more

November 15, 2007

The U.S. government has overcharged Americans by more than $100 million a year in its fee for new passports, according to cost figures uncovered by congressional investigators and analyzed by two senators and The Associated Press. ...more

November 3, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe DiPaula didn't grow up dreaming of owning a bead distribution business, and he doesn't romanticize the reason why he bought The Bead Warehouse a little more than a year ago. ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - A 24-year-old man has been arrested on heroin trafficking charges, accused of having packages of heroin mailed to Tampa from Massachusetts, according to criminal report affidavits. ...more

October 18, 2007

I am pleased to announce that the Toys for Tots Foundation in Quantico, Va., ( www.toysfortots.org), has cleared all Toys for Tots program coordinators to conduct our customary toy drive and distributions. ...more

October 15, 2007

As sunlight poked through the redwoods and a fiddler played 18th-century Scottish tunes, residents gathered recently for the Canyon Payphone Jubilee, a celebration that could occur, perhaps, only in this isolated, independent community on the eastern face of the Oakland hills. ...more

September 7, 2007