LAND O' LAKES - Residents at the Baldomero Lopez State Veterans Nursing Home in Land O' Lakes enjoyed a special treat recently when the Wesley Chapel Rotary and a few students from area high schools served up Texas-style barbecue with a side of good conversation. ...more

March 26, 2009

Residents at the Baldomero Lopez State Veterans Nursing Home in Land O' Lakes enjoyed a special treat March 7 when the Wesley Chapel Rotary and a few students from area high schools served up Texas-style barbecue with a side of good conversation. ...more

March 18, 2009

Dear Abby: I am happily married, but all my life I have yearned for a close and sisterly relationship with my mother and my sisters. We are very different people, but a kind and understanding female relative is what I have always wished for. ...more

December 21, 2008

When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call. So Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up. But, the Miami Herald reports, this was no prank. ...more

December 4, 2008

A number of NATO countries are balking at the United States' request that their troops in Afghanistan do more to confront drug lords whose money helps bankroll the Taliban, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday at a meeting of NATO defense ministers. ...more

October 10, 2008

WASHINGTON - With extraordinary stakes on the line, President Bush has invited both presidential candidates and the leaders of the House and Senate to the White House on Thursday in hopes of securing a bill to rescue the economy. ...more

September 24, 2008

There was a time not so long ago when none of this would have mattered, at least on this side of the pond. ...more

July 21, 2008

It's cold outside today, isn't it? Yes! It's frigid! ...more

February 14, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe Silvestro remembers the days when people would take their children to the same barber they frequented and their father frequented. ...more

October 1, 2007