Tennessee coach Pat Summitt spent Monday trying to keep herself from thinking too much about the Lady Volunteers' fate in the NCAA Tournament bracket after a roller-coaster 10-loss season. ...more

March 16, 2009

After months of legal troubles, Earl and Clarissa Johnson were about to regain custody of their children. On Thursday, though, a month before they were to be reunited, Lakeland police say their youngest son, 17-month-old Zachary, was brutally beaten and killed by his uncle, Matthew Wyrosdick. ...more

March 15, 2009

Eagles capitalize on five errors, while Tyler Schoonover goes the distance on the mound, holding Leopards to one run on two hits. ...more

March 13, 2009

Many Florida visionaries see this recession as an opportunity to bring Florida out of the Third World and into the 21st century. With the nation facing major challenges in jobs, energy, environment and health, Florida's old formula of growth, agriculture and tourism simply don't make the grade - especially with growth and tourism sounding increasingly like bad jokes. ...more

March 8, 2009

Some Americans are learning a jarring lesson about unemployment as they prepare their tax returns. ...more

March 7, 2009

The Bay area's unemployment rate is nearing double-digit levels, with 9.7 percent of the region's work force now jobless. ...more

March 7, 2009

Soon after breakfast and the morning announcements, six fifth-graders filed into Principal Diane Lethbridge's office at Sun 'N Lake Elementary School. ...more

March 6, 2009

For a quick, perhaps subconscious, glimpse of the world Mitch Talbot inhabits this spring, listen to how he describes the place he would like to begin this season, the major leagues. ...more

March 4, 2009

Authorities say a Fort Pierce woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets. ...more

March 3, 2009

A 26-year-old man faces a possible death sentence after being convicted this afternoon on federal murder, robbery and drug charges in connection with the 2006 robbery of a Bartow drug house. ...more

March 3, 2009