Each day in Ashley Duke's class at Bevis Elementary School, 7-year-old Carson Cochrane listens to the lessons, does his class work and like any first grader, plays around with his classmates during free time. ...more

December 26, 2008

The notion of ketchup soup got Reiko Pearson started on her mission. ...more

December 24, 2008

A young girl with long, dark hair backs away from a closed door. Moments later, she curls into a ball at the foot of a bed as an adult enters, unrolling a belt like a strap. ...more

December 20, 2008

USF architecture students envision a ground floor at the historic Tampa Armature Works building with a market, artists' studios and galleries, a coffee shop and restaurants offering a view of the lower Hillsborough River. ...more

December 17, 2008

USF architecture students envision a ground floor at the historic Tampa Armature Works building with a market, artist's studios and galleries, a coffee shop and restaurants offering a view of the lower Hillsborough River. ...more

December 17, 2008

One of the last times Pam Lee Orr saw P.J. Farmer, she was driving him to Hernando High School football games in her dad's red Montego. ...more

December 14, 2008

Look closely at that mural of Christ, and you'll count 10 crosses among the clothing. ...more

December 7, 2008

Rabbi Mendel Rubashkin held vigil at his computer for the better part of two days last week. Eager for Internet updates about terrorist attacks unfolding in India, he trolled frantically for evidence that his friend, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, had survived the violent siege at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in Mumbai. "It was a roller coaster of emotions," said Rubashkin, leader of Chabad of Brandon, a sector of the Chabad movement, a network of Orthodox Jews with thousands of groups around the world. News finally came the day after Thanksgiving. Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivka, 28, were among those found brutally slain at the center in Mumbai, where they had served the Jewish community since 2003. ...more

December 5, 2008

Our society has declared war against all pain. ...more

December 4, 2008

It was a little bit bouncing, a little bit waving, a little bit stepping and a whole lot of heart-pounding. ...more

December 3, 2008