One of the reasons to doubt Mike Huckabee's judgment is the pardon of Wayne Dumond, and many of Huckabee's pardons have been questioned. Wayne Dumond was already a convicted violent rapist when he was accused of raping Bill Clinton's cousin, Ashley Stevens, a 17-year-old high school cheerleader. She survived the attack and he was convicted. One victim says that Dumond raped her while threatening her with a butcher's knife. ...more

January 9, 2008

Playing at home with no lights, a 4 p.m. start to a soccer game is a must. Typically, this would keep the cold weather away, but not Monday. ...more

December 22, 2007

Dorilyn Kornn and Tamora Jones and her friends always enjoyed going to the Headley Nationwide Insurance office on Central Avenue. They would tend to business and shoot the breeze with Yvonne Bustamante and Juanita Luciano, the young women there who handled customer service. ...more

December 21, 2007

Mike Bustamante Jr. weighed 18 ounces when he arrived three months early Thursday, hours after his mother was kidnapped and burned during a Lake Wales robbery. ...more

December 16, 2007

The baby born from a woman who was kidnapped and burned in a robbery on Thursday in Lake Wales died early this morning. ...more

December 16, 2007

A tip of my hat to the learned Dale Gillis for his observation regarding my column of Nov. 8, in which I somewhat criticized our government trying to develop Iraq into a democratic form of government. He is right in that I have a negative view of religion and I ask just why I should not with all the scandals and religious zealots out there. Islam is just another religion, which has gone way too far in enforcing their fundamental beliefs. I failed to emphasize the need to establish some form of compromise between the Sunni zealots, Shiites, Jews and conservative Muslims so that that country can as our country does in accepting each other without war. ...more

December 13, 2007

A scoreless third quarter proved to be a disastrous and deciding blow for the Fox Chapel Tigers girls' varsity basketball squad Thursday night. ...more

December 2, 2007

During August's record-breaking heat, 18 elderly and disabled people, packed as many as six to a room, were rescued from the Daphne Jones Boarding Home. ...more

October 7, 2007