The ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance has launched an investigative review of possible misuse of donations made to Without Walls International Church and Paula White Ministries, along with five other Christian organizations. ...more

November 6, 2007

Seated in a pew at First Thonotosassa Missionary Baptist Church, Florine Walden, 90, and Ernestine Pelham, 87, reminisce. ...more

November 5, 2007

PUNTA GORDA - An act of peace turned sour Thursday when a Scott Street man rehung a noose beneath the faded Confederate flag in his yard. The flag and noose had been a fixture in Michael Whiteaker's yard for about three years, until a black neighbor persuaded him to take the noose down last week. ...more

October 26, 2007

Four women and two men held Ronald Smart's future in their hands Wednesday. ...more

October 25, 2007

A jury deliberated for more than two hours today before clearing a Port Richey pastor of a misdemeanor battery charge. ...more

October 24, 2007

The man told jurors he awoke to his pastor straddling his body and kissing his chest. ...more

October 24, 2007

About 60 or 70 people, a few children and an infant or two gathered together in prayer and song at the Love Center Missionary Baptist Church, the only place they thought could help them make sense of a court verdict handed down hours earlier. ...more

October 14, 2007

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - About 60 or 70 people, a few children and an infant or two gathered together in prayer and song at the Love Center Missionary Baptist Church, the only place they thought could help them make sense of a court verdict handed down hours earlier. ...more

October 13, 2007

Anger over a divorce settlement may have driven a 63-year-old Baptist deacon to shoot five people in a law office, killing two, then exchange gunfire with police during a standoff, authorities said Friday. ...more

October 6, 2007

Seated in a pew at First Thonotosassa Missionary Baptist Church, Florine Walden, 90, and Ernestine Pelham, 87, reminisce. ...more

September 29, 2007