Playing a crafty game of dominoes is half the challenge at Centro Asturiano de Tampa, one of a few hangouts representing a throwback to the cigar-making days when workers took regular dominoes breaks. ...more

November 3, 2007

A man killed when his pickup stopped on the tracks as an Amtrak train approached on Sunday has been identified as Stanley Pinder, 69, of Brandon. ...more

October 31, 2007

Lisa Hawk patiently tries to corral son Aiden, 5, back to business, drawing clowns from geometric shapes at his home-school worktable. But there are people in the house — big, big excitement. His bare feet skitter across hardwood floors as he runs room to room, showing off his prized dominoes and Thomas the Tank Engine trains. Then he throws himself across the front door and pleads with grown-up visitors to stay and play. His mother knows he gets bored and lonely at home, even though she brings in playmates as often as she can. It breaks her heart to watch the carefree children at her St. Petersburg neighborhood school, knowing Aiden will never join them. "I would love for him to be able to go to school and play with the other kids," Hawk says. "But for someone with allergies, a peanut in the classroom is like a loaded gun." ...more

October 28, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Patients come almost daily to sit below the rustling leaves of the tree they call famoso palito (famous tree) and mark with a sticker that reads 'Donate Life.' ...more

September 5, 2007