Wednesday dawned in Brooksville with a shooting and - 90 minutes before midnight - ended with another. ...more

September 12, 2008 |

Russian commanders said Wednesday that they were growing alarmed at the number of NATO warships sailing into the Black Sea, saying NATO vessels now outnumbered the ships in their fleet anchored off the western coast of Georgia. ...more

August 28, 2008 |

"The Assassin," by Stephen Coonts (St. Martin's Press, $27) ...more

August 17, 2008 |

Whatever his motives, and plenty of people will speculate on that, Sen. Barack Obama made a gutsy and appropriate move when he told an audience in Springfield, Ill., that he opposes slavery reparations and even apologies for the darkest corners of our nation's history. He'll be lambasted by all sides for saying it, of times, but we give him credit for putting it out there. ...more

August 3, 2008 |

Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg, Germany, last week would kill her, and she died alone. ...more

July 4, 2008 |

Former road contractor Michael Cone could have spared his wife a criminal conviction and possible prison sentence. ...more

June 20, 2008 |

Everyone has an opinion on illegal immigration, and those ideas vary from every extreme to all kinds of shades of gray in the middle. All of these ideas are acceptable and appreciated when debating this issue. It's the basis of our democracy. What's troubling, though, is that racism underlies some folks' take on immigration, although they will never admit it, and it can cloud the debate. ...more

May 27, 2008 |

Thereby Hangs A Tail Many, many years ago, when I was more into reading science fiction than I am today, I read a story about a girl who was born with a tail. She led a horrible life. She was picked on at school and generally ostracized by society. Her wish was to get rid of the cursed thing so she could lead a normal life, but doctors were afraid to undertake a removal operation. Then a strange thing happened - more and more children were being born with tails. Scientists accredited the phenomenon to a change in our genetic make-up. The learned ones claimed that either we as the human race was evolving to some new higher order or else we were regressing back to our roots. ...more

May 24, 2008 |

State Rep. Peter Nehr decided to reveal himself as the source of a tip about an alleged marijuana grow house in the Palm Harbor area. The Sheriff's Office, would-be tipsters need to know, did not make Nehr's role known. ...more

February 23, 2008 |

Mr. Maestro's letter printed by Hernando Today on Jan. 9shared some of myhopes for financial relief for homeowners, many of which are only dreams. The third paragraph in particular touched on a topic I have personally felt unfair, sighting that paying school taxes is unfair to those of us who have had no school age children. This would put the responsibility for parents to pay what some would call "user fees." Those lavish cloths and electronic toys would be better spent on their education. ...more

January 11, 2008 |