After writing a bawdy song with lyrics about sexual desires after age 50, Kathie Lee Gifford took the tune to her 76-year-old mother for approval. ...more

January 21, 2008

Melodious hymns spill from the back of the tidy Albany Avenue shop, where women and girls trust Sandra Thomas with their most glorious possessions: their hair and their souls. ...more

January 6, 2008

A little more than a year ago, Kathy Stangl received a devastating prognosis: Doctors told her she had a few months to live. ...more

December 26, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - A 36-year-old mother beat her mentally-challenged 10-year-od daughter repeatedly with an extension cord during a six-week period this year, leaving at least 40 permanent marks on the girl's body, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007

The 90-year-old mother of a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station died Wednesday when a train struck her vehicle, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man is being held without bail in Lake County after investigators there said he traveled to Clermont for sex with a 7-year-old girl and her mother. Neither the child nor her 32-year-old mother exists. The mother was an online persona adopted by a Lake County Sheriff's Office detective communicating via the Internet with the man, Kenneth Gene Miller, 51. ...more

December 14, 2007

When Penny Hammock discovered her 71-year-old mother's body four years ago, she said, the murder scene in the South Tampa apartment was like a horror film. The image doesn't go away, and Hammock's life will never be the same. ...more

December 14, 2007

Three generations of Clinton family women hit the trail vowing "change across the generations" as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York stepped up her pitch to female voters who could hold the key to Iowa's caucuses, which will launch the presidential nominating season in less than four weeks. ...more

December 9, 2007

Thomas L. Brackett was furious when he found out his 70-year-old mother decided his brother's ventilator should be unplugged. He snapped, shoving her to the ground and punching his other brother, who is physically disabled, Tampa police say. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - Upset because his 70-year-old mother decided his brother's ventilator should be unplugged, a Tampa man shoved the woman to the ground and punched his other brother, who is physically disabled, Tampa police say. ...more

December 5, 2007