Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling the homeowners their policy wouldn't be renewed because of the home's tainted drywall from China. ...more

October 24, 2009

Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died. He was 88. ...more

February 13, 2009

When Beverly Ostrom moved to Florida several years ago, she imagined her days relaxing in warm weather in her new Carrollwood home as she worked toward retirement. ...more

February 4, 2009

When Beverly Ostrom moved to Florida several years ago, she imagined her days relaxing in warm weather in her new Carrollwood home as she worked toward retirement. ...more

February 4, 2009

The last flight of missionary pilot James Weener was his second on Saturday, said National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson. ...more

December 17, 2008

The 22nd annual Still No Room at the Inn Carol Sing will begin at 7 p.m. Friday at the ASAP Drop-in Center, 423 11th Ave. S. Carolers will stroll through downtown, stopping to serenade residents of homeless shelters and a retirement home. The caroling will conclude at 9 p.m. next to a manger scene in Straub Park. ...more

December 11, 2008

There's a picture that Angelo Dundee holds sacred in his retirement home in this suburb along Tampa Bay. ...more

November 27, 2008

Sister Emmanuelle, a nun who lived for years among scavengers in Cairo's slums and who has been compared to Mother Teresa for her fight to defend the rights of the poor, died Monday at age 99. ...more

October 21, 2008

There was a time when Pat Milam envisioned a retirement home on the 53 acres he once owned along the edge of Cockroach Bay. ...more

August 18, 2008

There was a time when Pat Milam envisioned a retirement home on the 53 acres he once owned along the edge of Cockroach Bay. ...more

August 13, 2008