Next week, our country will observe two celebrations, the 234th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps on Nov. 10 and Veterans Day on Nov. 11.The Marine Corps birthday is the biggest celebration of the year for Marines. ...more

November 7, 2009

The parent company of Outback Steakhouse has chosen the president of Avon Products as its next chief executive officer. ...more

November 6, 2009

With a lengthy to-do list awaiting him, Richard Gehring won approval Tuesday to be Pasco County's growth management director, replacing Sam Steffey, who is retiring after 30 years. ...more

March 25, 2009

The University of Florida doesn't advertise it, but a few times a year people call about having their ashes spread on the school's football field. The school tries to honor those requests and knows alumni quietly scatter ashes on the campus's Lake Alice or behind fraternity houses. Now the school wants to build a Gator graveyard of sorts. ...more

March 5, 2009

In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa's workshop but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy makers. ...more

November 30, 2008

In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa's workshop but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy makers. ...more

November 29, 2008

The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans. ...more

November 19, 2008

Zephyrhills City Manager Steve Spina's mother dies. ...more

September 8, 2008

SEBRING – Bob Mullins didn't receive his business sense from a book because he only spent one year at the University of Virginia. The Lake Placid man, contrary to what experts believe about the importance of business plans, doesn't put much stock in them. Mullins ascribes to the approach of one of America's great retailers – F.W. Woolworth. "The Woolworth theory was that no matter what the problem is, you give the customer their money back," he said. "It is satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. That is the only reason that this has ever succeeded from Day One. I never stick anybody with something they don't want. "It's absolute," he added. "That's something I do not argue with it one little bit. It works." ...more

February 17, 2008

NEWS AND NOTES Plant Receiver Winter Commits To Auburn One of the top receivers in the state the past two seasons is taking his game to the SEC. Plant wideout Derek Winter verbally committed to Auburn University on Monday. ...more

February 5, 2008