How do you make a full-length movie about a children's story that consists of a mere nine sentences? ...more

October 30, 2009

It was a work of art with an unusual invitation. "Touch me!" read a notice under Steven Tagg's fused glass landscape at the Tarpon Springs Art Association's show in December. The landscape won Best of Show honors in the event. ...more

January 9, 2009

It was a work of art with an unusual invitation. "Touch me!" read a notice under Steven Tagg's fused glass landscape at the Tarpon Springs Art Association's show in December. The landscape won Best of Show honors in the event. ...more

January 7, 2009

Stacks of charred bricks, blackened shells of cars and burned tree trunks were all that remained Monday in much of the community some residents once called the "Beverly Hills of mobile home parks." ...more

November 18, 2008

Hurricane Dolly rolled into south Texas and northern Mexico on Wednesday, deluging the Rio Grande Valley with rain, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people and ripping roofs off resorts on South Padre Island. ...more

July 24, 2008

LAKE PLACID — On Henscratch Road, a column of smoke moved from east to west, with the wind. Eight days later, the fire is still simmering. Two blocks away, behind Bert Dawson's mobile home on Grand Concourse Drive, there's more smoke. "Yesterday, the wind started it up again," said Dawson, who paused while building a deck between his home and his mother's travel trailer. "Little fires. I got on my 4-wheeler and went back there." Behind his ranchette, there's a hammock of pine and hardwood trees, and the underbrush is as thick as it gets in Florida. Somewhere — Dawson thinks it was east of his home — the Henscratch fire started on Feb. 11. ...more

February 19, 2008

TAMPA - Forestry crews are continuing the difficult job of extinguishing smoking hot spots from a fire in Polk County that still could force the closing of Interstate 4. ...more

January 16, 2008

white calyx surrounds a scarlet corolla tube flowering in large clusters spring through fall; Delectum is a red cultivar, and Variegata has variegated leaves; partial shade; twining ...more

October 13, 2007