The new comedy from some of the folks who brought us "Wild Hogs" is badly written and broadly acted, shamelessly manipulative and not above stopping by the toilet for a laugh or two. It's almost certain to be a big hit. ...more

November 25, 2009

Dotti Bryant counts the Sun City Center Emergency Squad as one of her blessings every Thanksgiving. Bryant said volunteers with the SCC Emergency Squad made 18 trips to her home when her husband, Robert, was ill. ...more

November 25, 2009

When Sen. Mel Martinez published his autobiography earlier this year, the 240-page book said very little about his life in Washington. ...more

December 4, 2008

Elfreide Kuemmel first began to suspect that something wasn't quite right when she boarded the plane that she thought was going to Tampa. ...more

November 20, 2008

Big band singer Connie Haines, who joined Frank Sinatra in a string of hits with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s and continued performing well into her 80s, died Monday in Clearwater, where she had lived the past two decades. ...more

September 26, 2008

Big-band singer Connie Haines, who joined Frank Sinatra in a string of hits with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s and continued performing well into her 80s, died Monday in Clearwater, where she had lived the past two decades. ...more

September 25, 2008

As illuminating juxtapositions go, this one was hard to miss. Inside the Alice Hall Community Center, nerve center for the city of pure water's election day activities, the action was as cool as the refrigerated air. Fewer than 100 yards away, lifelong friends lounged in the steamy shade cast by a blue awning while tots splashed in water park spray, both generations utterly indifferent to the day's electoral possibilities or implications. ...more

August 27, 2008

My son has moved to New York City. And I'm okay with it … sort of. When he first told me he was moving to New York, my reaction was the typical maternal instinct—panic! Because that's what mothers do. It's in our job description. ...more

July 28, 2008

A Keystone mother took her appeal to the Hillsborough County School Board last week, asking members not to split her son from his lifelong friends. ...more

February 13, 2008

A Keystone mother took her appeal to the Hillsborough County School Board last week, asking members not to split her son from his lifelong friends. ...more

February 13, 2008