The relatives of prominent Tampa businessman Don Wallace, whom he has accused of trying to extort $1.2 million from him, turned themselves in Monday night to Hillsborough County authorities. ...more

June 17, 2008

Sometimes, money is a curse. If you're wealthy, friends come easily, many with their hands out. ...more

June 12, 2008

Have you tried the new restaurant in town, Salsa's Tex-Mex? The building used to house an old thrift shop; boy have Belia Polanco, her granddaughter, and niece put their work and sweat into that building to get it to what it looks like today. The inside decor is done in a way that it looks Mexican and has a relaxing way about it. I do not know Belia's granddaughter's name as she owns the restaurant. But, I do know she has put her heart and soul into making Salsa's a restaurant you will want to call "your place." ...more

June 2, 2008

MOLINO - An elementary school teacher retiring after a 36-year career died of a heart attack moments after saying goodbye to her final class for the summer. ...more

June 1, 2008

Each year for the past 27, descendants of the founders of this community near Plant City have gathered to break bread and take care of the business of maintaining the cemetery where many of their relations are buried. ...more

May 7, 2008

LARGO - A 27-year-old Largo man was booked into the Pinellas County Jail this morning on charges he got his 11-year-old niece to send him naked photos of herself using her cell phone, Largo police said. ...more

February 4, 2008

When the Hollywood writers union first went on strike, we hardly noticed because our favorite shows all had several weeks of episodes already "in the can," as they say in the entertainment industry. When those episodes ran out we watched reruns for a while, but that got old in a hurry. So, eventually, we shut the TV off after the evening news and made an amazing discovery … there is life without television. We read books, played cards, listened to classical music, and called our families out-of-state who were suddenly free to talk because now our calls were not interrupting new episodes of their favorite shows. It's not easy to admit it, but I realized I knew more about what was going on in the lives of characters on "House" and "Gray's Anatomy" than in the lives of my brother and niece. ...more

February 3, 2008

The 1950s multicolored stone fireplace looked shabby and outdated. It also was the focal point of the room. ...more

January 26, 2008

Well, we had a few really cold days there last week. Even my leather jacket got a workout, and that's a rarity. Naturally, this all happened days after my brother and his wife left to go back to Virginia. They complained about how hot it was here in Florida. If only they could have stayed a few more days. While I was in Boca Raton, I took somewhere in the neighborhood of 260 photographs with my digital camera. It's a nice Fujifilm camera that I got last year. I don't claim to know what I'm doing with a camera...I have no idea about things like shutter speed or F Stops, but I'm fairly OK at composing a photo. And when you take 260 photos, you're bound to get at least a few good shots. So I was in Wal-Mart at the Kodak kiosk, getting some photos printed, and everything went just fine. Until I got to the counter, that is. The clerk at the photo lab took one look at a photo of my niece, Bella, and said, "Sir, you can't have these. These were taken by a professional photographer." ...more

January 7, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies are looking for a 29-year-old man who they say abducted his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint at about 5 p.m. today from her uncle's home. ...more

December 31, 2007