Resident John Markowitz, his wife, Beth, and their 4-year-old son, Jack, will ride in the ALS Association Florida Chapter's Tour de Vie on Nov. 7 on the Pinellas Trail. John's mother, Doris, will participate as a virtual rider. ...more

October 28, 2009

Friends and family gathered recently to celebrate nine decades of John May's life. ...more

January 28, 2009

They came to praise the Lord and say goodbye to a dear friend. Bell Shoals Baptist Church's 3,450-seat sanctuary was crammed full as members and friends joined in an emotional celebration of the life of Simeon Nix, the congregation's minister of music and worship. ...more

August 27, 2008

A "celebration of life" service for the Rev. Simeon Nix will take place Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Bell Shoals Baptist Church, 2101 Bell Shoals Road, Brandon. Doors will open at 5 p.m. ...more

August 19, 2008

Still reeling from the deaths of their senior pastor and his 14-year-old son in May, members of Bell Shoals Baptist Church are leaning on each other again. ...more

August 18, 2008

Still reeling from the deaths of their senior pastor and his 14-year-old son in May, members of Bell Shoals Baptist Church are leaning on each other again. ...more

August 17, 2008

David Bennett had lived and breathed jewelry for most of his professional life, but he was a salesman, not a craftsman. ...more

December 10, 2007

Jim Haslett wasn't ready to return to the place where his first head coaching job began with accolades and literally ended in disaster after Hurricane Katrina. ...more

November 12, 2007

SEBRING — Mike Edmonston is determined to solve the mystery raised by a photo sent to him by his father. It shows two large sea caves opening just above the low-tide waterline on the rocky shore of a small, uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Panama. It's what you can't see in the photo that fascinates him. The absence of a cave diver's safety line anchored at either opening tells him chances are nobody's ever dove into the caves. For sure, Edmonston knows that nobody has ever charted or named, much less filmed, those remote underwater caves. That's going to change early next year when he and wife, Beth, both certified cave divers, explore that unknown underwater world. "We don't know if the caves go in 10 feet or 10,000 feet," he said. "But we're going to find out." ...more

October 16, 2007