An aunt of John Evander Couey stepped forward Thursday to claim his body, relieving the Florida Department of Corrections of the financial burden of cremation and burial for one of West Central Florida's most reviled child killers. ...more

October 2, 2009

In its recent anniversary issue, the New Yorker magazine took a look at the state of affairs here in Florida. Apparently there is nothing amiss in the Empire State worthy of note. So it declares things here a real mess, thanks to the collapse of the real estate market. While it told of some foreclosure hardship tales from southwestern Florida, the ground zero of the devastation, according to the New Yorker, is good old Pasco County. ...more

February 11, 2009

Please Help Victims Regarding your article 'Boarding Home Records Lead To Grandmother' (Nation/World, Oct. 7) and the 'financial maneuvering' going on, you might want to send a photographer to the grandmother's 'castle' and see the two new 'turrets' being built. ...more

October 13, 2007