Hurt by a slow summer, Margarita Mama's, Banana Joe's and two other clubs at Channelside Bay Plaza fell behind on rent and have been evicted. ...more

November 28, 2009

Mildred Ballard, a retiree from Sun City Center, got a measure of assurance Monday that the drywall in her home is causing her thermostat to go haywire and the temperature to swing wildly. ...more

November 24, 2009

The scenes seared into the minds of those who know Bobby Yurkanin differ only in place: Whether in the pool, dinner table or bowling alley, he was a 50-something man whose life had been handed over to the sickness of his parents. Always, his father was by his side. ...more

November 9, 2009

Pizza chef – and former swimming pool lifeguard and would-be medical imaging technologist – Katy Daniel-Rivera can't hear. Although profoundly deaf since birth, Daniel-Rivera is cooking up a lesson in the success that can be found in being positive, tenacious and dedicated to a dream. ...more

October 24, 2009

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Lawyers for an ambulance driver and a former politician accused of trying to extort millions from John Travolta urged jurors today to clear their clients, accusing the actor's attorneys of setting them up. ...more

October 20, 2009

PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old Arizona boy who pleaded guilty in the killing of his father's roommate likely won't be sentenced Thursday because no state or county agency is willing to pay for the costly psychiatric treatment required under terms of a plea agreement, attorneys said. ...more

October 20, 2009

A suburban Philadelphia swim club's board should resign to settle claims that the club canceled the pool memberships of dozens of minority children because of their race, a lawyer for most of the children's families said Monday. ...more

July 13, 2009

Oknan Ziegler loved to shop at the Salvation Army store on U.S. 19. ...more

March 30, 2009

Prosecutors in South Florida are taking a fresh look at evidence in the 2007 death of actress-model Anna Nicole Smith. ...more

March 25, 2009

On May 20, the city will have its 84th birthday as an incorporated community. It could be right around that time residents will decide whether the city will see an 85th anniversary. On Tuesday, City Council voted 3-2 to approve on second reading an ordinance calling for a referendum that will ask voters to decide whether the city will continue to exist or be dissolved and absorbed into unincorporated Pasco County. ...more

March 14, 2009