After a long day's work, Debbi Colon tosses and turns in bed. Her clients' tales echo freely through her brain, and she can't shut off the worry. ...more

June 30, 2008

DOVER - After a long day's work, Debbi Colon tosses and turns in bed. Her clients' tales run freely through her brain, and she can't shut off the worry. ...more

June 27, 2008

Tony Stewart won his own charity dirt-track race Wednesday, leading nearly the entire way. ...more

June 5, 2008

The foreclosure crisis that has forced thousands of families from their homes has given something good to the nation's best-known housing charity: cheap properties for sale in communities around the country. ...more

May 20, 2008

It was one of those charity breakfasts where 500 people show up at the same time to park in the convention center's parking garage. Next to the machine that dispenses parking tickets at the garage entrance was a sign telling you to take a ticket and then proceed and pay inside. ...more

May 9, 2008

Nearly seven years after a hijacked airplane crashed into the Pentagon, the largest charity established to help Washington area victims and their families is closing, becoming the last major Sept. 11-related charity to shut down. ...more

May 4, 2008

A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22. ...more

May 3, 2008

Second-grade teacher Leigh Burdette and kindergarten aide Rhonda Locker went lip to snout with a pig recently to raise money for charity. ...more

February 26, 2008

PLANT CITY - Second-grade teacher Leigh Burdette and kindergarten aide Rhonda Locker went lip to snout with a pig today to raise money for charity. ...more

February 22, 2008

Regarding "Penniless Man Returns $100 Find" (front page, Feb. 15): I want to thank The Tampa Tribune for placing this story on the front page. As the main headline that day was about a tragedy in Illinois, this local story of an honest man and a teenager who was brought up right in this day is the real news. We would love to read about this news more often. ...more

February 18, 2008