The underground bunker near Tampa International Airport amazed even veteran detectives. ...more

January 22, 2009

the day after Morrison would have turned 65 - he appeared in The New York Times in two obituaries: his father's and that of the owner of the Los Angeles club, Whisky A Go Go, where Morrison's band, the Doors, got its big break. ...more

December 13, 2008

Before Carmen Madsen was a dressmaker and world traveler, the Tampa native uncovered a plot to deploy German U-boats off Florida's coast. ...more

September 23, 2008

Steve Raymond told me about a year ago that he never expected to live this long, by at least a half century. ...more

September 10, 2008

Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, 87, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, died Tuesday in Atlanta. ...more

June 27, 2008

Mel's Hot Dogs is hard to miss, with its red awnings and wiener mobile, a converted Volkswagen Beetle, parked out front. ...more

December 29, 2007

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. never apologized for dropping the atomic bomb that leveled more than two-thirds of the buildings in Hiroshima, Japan, and immediately killed at least 80,000 people. ...more

November 2, 2007

WHO: Jared Shari CLAIM TO FAME: Named Civil Air Patrol Cadet of the Year by the John C. Meyer Chapter of the Air Force Association. ...more

October 15, 2007

Randy Ludacer's letter to Highlands Today, Aug. 25, gives good coverage on the failures and follies that cost us 58,000 men in Vietnam. ...more

September 6, 2007