On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called "Now We Know How Israel Feels." In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Mo., a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough. ...more

January 7, 2009

Hollywood bestows a bumper crop on movie fans this weekend. ...more

December 24, 2008

Two Spring Hill men looking for money owed to them exacted their revenge by targeting their bosses at their homes, authorities say. ...more

December 2, 2008

Five miles east of Dade City and three miles north of San Antonio lies the lightly traveled heart of a Pasco County region residents have waged long and mighty war to defend from trespassing developers and others who disregard the virtues of rural tradition. ...more

October 26, 2008

When the history is written on the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it will go down in the annals of corporate scandals as one of the greatest accounting scams committed in broad daylight. ...more

September 10, 2008

City police are investigating a drive-by-style shooting that occurred shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday, in the 1300 block of Tulane Avenue. ...more

August 20, 2008

About 60 people gathered Saturday evening next to the Cedric "C.J." Mills Football Field at Lincoln Gardens Park to unveil a memorial plaque for their beloved grandson, son, friend and teammate. ...more

August 3, 2008

TAMPA - About 60 people gathered Saturday evening next to the Cedric "C.J." Mills Football Field at Lincoln Gardens Park to unveil a memorial plaque for their beloved grandson, son, friend and teammate. ...more

August 2, 2008

Summer fishing has been slow, and is to be expected, especially at mid-day. ...more

July 30, 2008

Much ink has been spilled lately decrying the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush. Polls tell us how China is now more popular in Asia than America and how few Europeans say they identify with the United States. I am sure there is truth to these polls. We should have done better in Iraq. An America that presides over Abu Ghraib, torture and Guantanamo Bay deserves a thumbs-down. ...more

July 18, 2008