TAMPA - A woman who stormed from a courtroom this morning in a profanity-laced tirade led the judge to quip that her actions helped explain why her son was charged with a string of felonies. ...more

February 7, 2008

Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. ...more

February 5, 2008

Born with a rare kind of cataracts that defied treatment, Kenlyn South spent most of her life legally blind. ...more

December 13, 2007

Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours. ...more

November 29, 2007

"The Faraday Girls: A Novel," by Monica McInerney (Ballantine Reader's Circle, $13.95) ...more

November 25, 2007

It took the better part of a year for Chante Douglass to understand the Children's Village was different. ...more

November 21, 2007

Tara called my XM radio show distressed about her debt. But unlike many people who complain about the bills they allowed to mount, much of her debt was not her fault. ...more

October 14, 2007