At first, I was shocked. "What do you mean she asked your friend what kind of hair you have?" My mother, the most amiable person I knew, had fallen victim to the inexorable fate of something far worse than prejudice. Even while society has achieved so much, some antediluvian individuals remain enraptured by the superiority of racism. ...more

March 16, 2010

A Hillsborough County jury couldn't agree on whether Ronnie Tremel Walker killed Elaine Lanier Caldwell during a 2003 home invasion. ...more

February 26, 2010

University of South Florida interviewers concluded that head football coach Jim Leavitt did grab a player's throat and slap him twice on the cheek during halftime of the Bulls game against Louisville on Nov. 21. ...more

January 8, 2010

Art Hernden was 15 and conspicuously open to suggestion. Oh, sure, like most of his peers growing up within the penumbra of Detroit astride the World War II globe, his imagination was powered by the internal combustion engine and all that could be linked to it. ...more

March 15, 2009

Gloria is huddled against a wall at Kennedy Boulevard and Franklin Street on a postcard-perfect Thursday night, gazing up at a building where city lights cast dazzling images of birds of paradise against a stone wall. ...more

March 14, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. The two met while working at Westshore Pizza in March 2006 and became inseparable. It is hardly surprising, then, that Hernandez was one of the last people to see Veluz and Derek Pieper alive. ...more

March 14, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. ...more

March 13, 2009

For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true. ...more

March 10, 2009

Lightning D Jamie Heward spent seven minutes on a stationary bike Tuesday morning, his first physical activity in more than three weeks. ...more

January 28, 2009

Although investigators determined the carbon monoxide deaths of Jules and Parker Baudin were accidental, the boys' parents are assigning blame. ...more

January 8, 2009