Dotti Bryant counts the Sun City Center Emergency Squad as one of her blessings every Thanksgiving. Bryant said volunteers with the SCC Emergency Squad made 18 trips to her home when her husband, Robert, was ill. ...more

November 25, 2009

A Hillsborough County lawmaker said today that healthcare programs for the aged, disabled and working poor will not be cut despite a $3.4 billion state budget deficit in the coming fiscal year. ...more

March 26, 2009

Shortly before America's elections in November, then-vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a "generated" international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union "tested" John F. Kennedy shortly after he assumed office. ...more

March 7, 2009

Wondering if his publisher liked the manuscript of "Les Miserables," Victor Hugo sent a terse note: "?" His publisher replied as tersely: "!" That was the nation's response to Barack Obama's inaugural address, even though - or perhaps because - one of his themes, delicately implied, was that Americans do not just have a problem, they are a problem. ...more

January 21, 2009

The Rev. Tommy Green knew if he didn't make some changes in his life, he was heading toward a heart attack. ...more

January 10, 2009

When the finance ministers of the world's top economies convened in Washington last month around the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund, they developed a successful international strategy for responding to the financial crisis, which had reached panic proportions in the markets. It was promptly implemented by the key countries and quelled the worst of the anxieties. ...more

November 15, 2008

Construction of new homes plunged by a bigger-than-expected amount in September as builders slashed production yet again, putting the country on track to build the fewest homes this year in more than six decades. ...more

October 18, 2008

Nearly two dozen wires were glued to my scalp, face, chin, shoulder blades and legs. ...more

October 13, 2008

A soured investment in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. debt slashed two-thirds of the asset value of the nation's oldest money-market fund, exposing clients to losses despite their investments in a financial product normally seen as a safe haven even in volatile markets. ...more

September 18, 2008

Jane Buckingham, a slender, blondish woman in a diminutive pearly gray dress and knee-high black boots, clearly has a following. ...more

January 13, 2008