They rolled out the red carpet Thursday night for the opening of the ten-day Gasparalla International Film Festival, where a sold-out crowd of more than 1,000 watched Hollywood actress Terry Moore get the event's first lifetime achievement award. ...more

February 26, 2009

Florida guard Erving Walker came off the bench to score a team-high 17 points and lead the Gators to an 82-68 victory over Vanderbilt. ...more

February 22, 2009

Dan Harri has an artistic eye and the ability to create three dimensional art out of a 300 pound block of ice. ...more

September 17, 2008

A former Pasco County sheriff's deputy has agreed to plead guilty to federal drug and firearms charges. Don Riggans, 34, faces a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of life for possessing a firearm in connection with drug trafficking. He also has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to possess hydrocodone, a charge that carries up to five years behind bars. ...more

September 11, 2008

After 45 years in the downtown clothing store his father opened in 1952, Kernan Webb is checking out. ...more

August 27, 2008

Radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem broadcast phone messages from a man insulting famed wrestler Hulk Hogan and his family, saying he wants his audience to know more about the people suing over an accident involving Hogan's son Nick. ...more

June 16, 2008

As we relaxed over drinks at Los Lagartos Restaurant at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort overlooking the Chagres River, Norma Ponce mesmerized us by recounting how she and fellow park rangers rescued an enormous crocodile in the Bay of Panama. ...more

May 18, 2008

SEBRING — A light red scar shows under the bridge of Bauer Smehyl's nose as he starts to cry, but the only other hint to his condition comes from his baby bottle. After his mom filled a long bottle with milk, Stacy Smehyl grabbed several parts to assemble a three-inch-long Haberman nozzle. Bauer uses this nozzle so he can chew rather than suck to get the milk. That is because the 6-month-old was born with a cleft palate. He also had a cleft lip before surgeons in Boston stitched it together in December. ...more

February 1, 2008

TAMPA In Waukesha, Wis. during the late 1970s, an adolescent Joe Fenlon would plug his stereo into the street lamp and listen to music as he dribbled a basketball up and down his street. ...more

January 14, 2008