It's all gone a bit topsy-turvy when a Portishead track is a dead ringer for Silver Apples. ...more

May 22, 2008

When "Dexter" debuted on CBS, the American people were promised that it would be "scheduled responsibly in the last hour of prime time." These are the very words of the CBS Network executives. But their words are no longer true. As you know, CBS is planning to air back-to-back episodes of "Dexter" this Sunday, with the first episode airing as early as 9 p.m. on the east and west coast and 8 p.m. in the central and mountain time zones! It is the height of irresponsibility for CBS to schedule this intensely violent, premium-cable series so early in evening when millions of impressionable - and easily frightened - children are still awake and watching television. You've had time to see for yourself just how gruesome and disturbing "Dexter" is, and how grossly inappropriate this series is for the broadcast medium. I urge you to do the responsible thing by pulling this Sunday's airings of "Dexter." ...more

May 3, 2008

A Winter Haven father was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison in the death of his 10-week-old son, who suffocated last year when the man tried to stop him from crying by stuffing his mouth with a washcloth. ...more

April 19, 2008

You're in the thick of the holiday shopping season and your youngster has a serious case of the gotta-have-it-now syndrome. ...more

December 23, 2007

A recent Time magazine takes a look at Americans by the numbers. I love these kinds of surveys because they help you realize there are a whole lot of people out there who need to get a life as much as you do. For example, after work and sleep, you know what consumes the largest portion of our day? Watching TV. And why wouldn't it? ...more

November 28, 2007

Why not? In a college football season long ago voided of logic and convention, two losses isn't a death sentence. It's a full-color, glossy-paged resume. After Saturday's 45-37 victory against eighth-ranked Kentucky, the Florida Gators are 5-2. Does anybody really want to tell them the rest of this season could best be spent working on table manners? ...more

October 21, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe Seward remembers watching television on Sept. 11, 2001, and seeing the twin towers crumbling. ...more

September 18, 2007

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe Seward remembers watching television on Sept. 11, 2001, and seeing the twin towers crumbling. ...more

September 15, 2007

SEFFNER - Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man in a parking lot after a kidnapping and attempted bank robbery this evening. Tracey Alderman, 29, was then shot during an escape attempt during questioning at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office District 2 office. ...more

September 13, 2007

The owner of an auto body shop was killed in a home invasion Tuesday night as his wife and teenage daughter lay face down in the same room, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

September 6, 2007