What will consumers crave in 2011? A dirty-clothes hamper that actually starts the wash when full? A toaster that scans images onto your whole wheat? ...more

November 2, 2008

Gloria Tesch, a 14-year-old Tarpon Springs High School ninth-grader from Palm Harbor, has written an 800-page novel. It is the first installment in a planned trilogy. ...more

September 20, 2008

NEW SMYRNA BEACH - Chick-fil-A restaurant founder S. Truett Cathy has decided two girls accused of causing $30,000 in damage to his home should be punished with a writing assignment instead of charges. ...more

August 1, 2008

Josh Cooley and John Gibson are brother Marines. They've served in Iraq, and they both did it while on leave from their day jobs as Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputies. ...more

May 23, 2008

The Couch Spud's eyeballs are bugging out because more than 50 readers really know their "Happy Days" history. ...more

December 20, 2007

Remember the enchanting gingerbread houses we used to make from pint-size milk cartons plastered with frosting, graham crackers and gumdrops? This past weekend, I picked up something similar, a slightly larger version - a gingerbread house kit. ...more

December 17, 2007

Remember the enchanting gingerbread houses we used to make from pint-size milk cartons plastered with frosting, graham crackers and gumdrops? This past weekend, I picked up something similar, a slightly larger version - a gingerbread house kit. ...more

December 10, 2007

Rusty Evers confesses she spent the morning yelling at everybody. A produce dealer tried to sell her wilted rosemary "with buds on the bottom," she said with a horrified look. ...more

November 24, 2007

TAMPA - Three young Tampa children lived in an apartment with deplorable conditions that included filthy furniture, an empty refrigerator and rotten food on the kitchen counter and in the sink, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

November 16, 2007

A day after three dozen dogs were removed from a Viva Villas home, the front door was left open, revealing a peek of the squalid conditions inside where until recently a trio of women lived. ...more

November 16, 2007