Here are some tips for staying safe in hotels. •Ask for a different room if the desk clerk announces your room number. ...more

October 9, 2009

Several members from First Baptist Church have been volunteering their time the past week to make repairs on the home of fellow church member Joy Stubbs. The work will take about another week and includes re-roofing, painting, yard clean-up and repairing windows and doors. Local businesses donated supplies to help the church with their first extensive home project. "It's nice to work alongside people with a common goal," said Joy and added as she teared up, "the Lord's just answering prayers." ...more

August 7, 2009

Wind Protection Needed A new law that was effective Jan. 1 requires homeowners to install wind protection for windows and doors if they are insured with Citizens for a value of $750,000 or more and live within the wind-borne debris zone. ...more

April 2, 2009

Deputy Jim Powers circled the house, banging on windows and doors. He was trying to determine if anyone was home after a neighbor called authorities to say the homeowner hadn't picked up his paper from the driveway recently. ...more

January 22, 2009

If you've never heard of My Safe Florida Home, the state's free hurricane inspection program, chances are you soon will. ...more

January 19, 2009

No one was injured when a group of people showed up outside a Bradenton house Sunday afternoon and someone fired a gun into the residence, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 18, 2009

If you've never heard of My Safe Florida Home, the state's free hurricane inspection program, chances are you soon will. ...more

January 14, 2009

The nation's grim economy now has a rallying point: Employees at a window-and-door factory that went out of business have taken over the building in a siege that has come to symbolize the woes of the ordinary worker. ...more

December 9, 2008

Chicago workers in the third day of a sit-in on the floor of their former workplace peered through the windows of a door Sunday, amazed by a mix of supporters, politicians and journalists who packed a foyer outside. ...more

December 8, 2008

Workers who got three days' notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won't go home without assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay. ...more

December 6, 2008