The Florida Strawberry Festival got under way this morning amid sunny skies and eager crowds. ...more

February 26, 2009

Crystal Rusaw had scheduled a Jan. 9 Caesarean delivery for her second child, but Pasco County's first baby of 2009 had other ideas. ...more

January 3, 2009

Crystal Rusaw had scheduled a Jan. 9 Caesarean delivery for her second child, but Pasco County's first baby of 2009 had other ideas. Antonio Larry Rusaw waited until everyone in his family had gone to bed before starting his way into the world. His mother's water broke about 1:30 a.m. Thursday shortly after she had put her year-old daughter, Jasmine, to bed. "I had just laid down," Crystal Rusaw said Thursday afternoon as she recovered in her room at Community Hospital in New Port Richey. ...more

January 2, 2009

On the occasion of Royal Oak Nursing Center resident Frank Thompson's 103rd birthday, Royal Oak activities director Nila Premer had an apology to make. ...more

December 13, 2008

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it, too: to help convict him of killing four family members. ...more

August 29, 2008

For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon. ...more

July 20, 2008

When I was 10 years old my family moved from the big, dirty, steel-mill city of Gary, Ind., to the sleepy little village of Rosebush, Mich. — population 2,000, if you counted every farm family in a 10-mile radius. ...more

June 15, 2008

Arthur Murray Dance Studio, 3217 S. MacDill Ave., will offer free 30-minute introductory lessons to the first 25 people who register when the studio opens at 1 p.m. Monday. ...more

May 28, 2008

"Burma is difficult to describe," said Jean Hehn of Plant City. "It is majestically beautiful with the spires of golden pagodas rising from the green hills along the river; the people are so welcoming with gentle smiles; both men and women are elegant in longyis sarongs; it's a land of rubies, sapphires, jade, dance and music." ...more

February 4, 2008

Dear Lyn: I read your column on long-distance caregiving. My parents live across the country. Caregiving may be in my future someday, but the thought of reversing roles and caring for them seems unreal to me. Would things be easier if I ask them to move near me now? — Curious ...more

January 31, 2008