You can still get a manual Olivetti typewriter and Doc Martens boots, so it seems groovy that another 1960s icon, the terrarium, remains alive and kicking. ...more

February 22, 2009

In the past, my husband has not been very appreciative of my efforts to provide the family with fresh produce and vegetables grown by my two loving hands. ...more

February 15, 2009

It's time to consider again growing a vegetable garden. ...more

February 11, 2009

In the closing scene of the holiday movie classic "A Christmas Story," Ralphie and his family sit down to a Christmas dinner in a Chinese restaurant. A roasted duck appears on a platter, head and all. ...more

December 11, 2008

SEBRING A 16-year-old faces a number of charges following his arrest Saturday for an alleged burglary spree. ...more

November 18, 2008

The windowless building that once housed the town's only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final party. ...more

September 6, 2008

It hit almost without warning. Although there had been a tornado watch on television, Mitch Cross and his wife, Marge, didn't pay much attention. How many tornado watches had they seen before, without incident? ...more

December 25, 2007

It's called the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. It's the crazed five weeks beginning the day after Thanksgiving and ending on New Year's Day. ...more

November 21, 2007

Officers arrested a late-night customer at a downtown Publix supermarket after he barreled through the doors using two shopping carts and broke several bottles of wine, police said. ...more

November 19, 2007

Jack Roush sat in the pitch black, the generator that powers the lights having overheated. Flickers of light illuminated his face in snapshots each time the tinted glass doors to Greg Biffle's hauler were opened and closed to the daylight Friday. ...more

September 29, 2007