I have been due to buy new gardening gloves for, oh, at least three months. When are gloves officially worn out? If you guessed, "When they're so filthy, your fingers curl up in horror so you can't put them on," you are wrong. That's pure wimp, gardeners, plain and simple. ...more

September 11, 2008

As blazing summer segues into fall, some parts of the country head back outside to plant. ...more

September 11, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist, who won office as a tax-cutter, now wants Florida to shovel dollars out the door faster to help the sagging economy. ...more

August 24, 2008

Ingrid Vecsey picked up her 38-year-old son from a bar Saturday night, and soon after they got home, he began beating and choking her to the point she spit up blood, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 29, 2008

Ingrid Vecsey picked up her drunken 38-year-old son from a bar Saturday night, and soon after they got home, he began beating and choking her to the point she spit up blood, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 28, 2008

(AP) The grandmother of a 2-year-old central Florida girl missing since early June said Monday that the mother, who was jailed after police said she didn't report the disappearance for more than a month, knows who has the toddler. ...more

July 22, 2008

The grandmother of a 2-year-old Central Florida girl missing since early June said Monday that the mother, whom police say was jailed for not reporting the disappearance for more than a month, knows who has the toddler. ...more

July 21, 2008

Sheriff's deputies used cadaver-sniffing dogs to search Friday for a 2-year-old girl who mysteriously vanished more than a month ago, trying to determine what happened to the toddler whose mother was arrested after she came to police this week to report the disappearance. ...more

July 19, 2008

Two men remained in Highlands County Jail on Wednesday, following their arrest late Monday or early Tuesday, after a 34-year-old man reported they beat him and forced him to give them his Xanax pills. ...more

July 17, 2008

TAMPA - A feud about a fire set at a mobile home last year led to a Lakeland man's death, Lakeland police say. ...more

June 19, 2008