"Terminal Freeze," by Lincoln Child (Doubleday, $24.95) ...more

February 22, 2009

Less than 24 hours before taking to the ice Sunday, D Andrej Meszaros sat for 45 minutes while doctors sewed together 64 stitches to his upper lip, the inside of his lip, along his gum line and the roof of his mouth. ...more

January 5, 2009

Thea Anderson has watched her "baby" grow from less than 2 pounds to tipping the scales at 203 pounds in a little more than three years. ...more

December 17, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG – Cole Hamels has enjoyed a steady climb up the ranks of the top left-handed pitchers in baseball. But he has used the stage of the 2008 playoffs as his coming-out party. ...more

October 23, 2008

No one was particularly surprised that the White Sox played well Sunday in beating the Rays. Joe Maddon said he expected it and swept aside any notion that Chicago's 5-3 win in Game 3 of the division series was anything to be concerned about. ...more

October 6, 2008

You know you've got something going when the opposition has a good idea what's coming but can't do anything about it. ...more

August 29, 2008

It came years later than she expected, but at age 30, Tampa's Damu Cherry fulfilled her dream Sunday at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. ...more

July 7, 2008

They say that every president gets the psychoanalyst he deserves. And every Hamlet gets his Rosencrantz. ...more

June 3, 2008

SEBRING — Darryl Scott, director of Highlands County Animal Control, still hopes to find the person who dumped off a malnourished horse in the middle of a road near Lake Placid back on March 28. Whether or not that person is caught, though, Scott is trying to place the horse in a good adoptive home. ...more

May 9, 2008

AVON PARK — Like everyone, Jean Claude Meus was fearful of prison. And like everyone, Meus thought if he stayed out of gangs, away from drugs, and didn't rob or steal, then he would never wind up in prison. But it did happen. ...more

May 3, 2008