Well, we've done it again. We have spent another year in freedom and opportunity - arguing all the while about how free, how much opportunity and the best way to guarantee both - and arrived back at the anniversary of the founding of our nation. We tend to take this for granted but definitely shouldn't. ...more

July 4, 2009

Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs still expects to return from his medical leave at the end of June, according to an Apple director who responded to an investor at the company's annual shareholder meeting Wednesday. ...more

February 26, 2009

Jubilant ethnic Albanians poured into the streets Tuesday to celebrate the first anniversary of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, as nationalist Serbian lawmakers joined their ethnic kin in northern Kosovo to try to undermine the tiny country. ...more

February 18, 2009

It was time for Mary Dolmonet to leave her hometown in New Jersey and relocate to sunny Florida. ...more

September 15, 2008

It was the weekly meeting of the Brandon '86 Rotary, which meets at some ungodly hour around sunrise in Buckhorn Springs. Maybe there's something in the water out there, but everyone seemed awfully chipper. ...more

August 25, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - There were three adults at the birthday party where 18-year-old Gregory Kennedy was killed, and one of them ended up in the hospital with a concussion after being struck by the same group of teenagers. ...more

August 1, 2008

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, 31; Julian McMahon, 40; Maureen McGovern, 59; Betty Thomas, 60 ...more

July 27, 2008

Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa each recorded it. Mike Ditka and Ozzy Osbourne each performed it. ...more

July 15, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A year ago, Jeri McDonald said she saw her granddaughter skydive, and thought she wanted to try it as well. ...more

February 20, 2008

First of all, I have to say happy birthday to my Dad. He's 70 years old today. Yikes, that's a biggie. Over Christmas, Dad mentioned his impending start to an eight decade and I said, "I'll bet you wish you'd had me 10 years younger, huh?" He agreed. He was 29 when I was born, as opposed to me being 20 when my daughters came into the world. I'll be in Boca Raton as you read this, going to celebrate Dad's birthday at my sister's house. I was told that I should bring the Nintendo Wii with me. In fact, "if you just want to drop off the Wii and leave, that'll be fine." Thanks, sis. Well, it's nice to be wanted, even if I had to buy the love with an expensive video game console. ...more

January 21, 2008