An e-mail from a purported hit man is making its rounds, threatening immediate death to the recipient if they don't fork over $8,000. ...more

December 4, 2008

Lovers of George Fredrick Handle's music need to head over to Freedom High at 7 p.m. Thursday to hear choral department students perform during the school's annual winter holiday concert. The event also will include a performance of the Freedom Family Chorus, which is made up parents, teachers, friends and family members. ...more

December 3, 2008

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Town 'N Country 2009 is hosting a Holiday Reunion from 6 to 8 p.m. Timberlane Park Recreation Center, 10210 Westgate Drive. Participants can stop by to pick up team captain packets, posters and brochures or to pay registration fee and enjoy hors d'oeuvres. ...more

December 1, 2008

Three people died Saturday evening when a car swerved into their lane and collided with two motorcycles in Sumter County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

November 30, 2008

Dear Abby: My husband and I just found out that his daughter and her boyfriend duped everyone - including us - with a formal, traditional wedding ceremony, but the "marriage" is not legal. They had no intention of being legally wed but felt that because they are having a baby, they were entitled to a wedding. ...more

November 30, 2008

Even though employees at the Peer Bearing Co. no longer work for the Spungen family that recently sold the Waukegan-based ball bearings maker, they still each received a turkey this Thanksgiving holiday in keeping with tradition. ...more

November 29, 2008

Julie Weintraub has been spending a lot of time on Facebook the past two days. The social networking site is the St. Petersburg woman's link to family members living in besieged Mumbai, India. ...more

November 29, 2008

Julie Weintraub's been spending a lot of time on Facebook the past two days. The social networking site is the St. Petersburg woman's link to family members living in besieged Mumbai, India. ...more

November 28, 2008

the Internet. Good, bad or otherwise, the emergence of the World Wide Web has rocked the world of information exchange in a very profound way. ...more

November 26, 2008

Jurors deliberated for four hours Thursday before finding Sharon Sprout guilty of second-degree murder in the 2004 killing of her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Candiano. ...more

November 21, 2008