These are not the world champion Cleveland Browns, but the year was 1951. This photograph of our eighth-grade football team was taken on Thanksgiving Day in the Bronx, N.Y. We look happy enough, although we'd just lost our game, 12-6. ...more

November 29, 2009

At long last, this season of "Dancing With the Stars" comes to an end beginning at 9 tonight on ABC. ...more

November 24, 2009

At long last, this season of "Dancing With the Stars" comes to an end beginning at 9 tonight on ABC. ...more

November 24, 2009

The new and improved "V" debuts on ABC Tuesday night with the alien reptiles aboard we have seen before, but this time they are more attractive and less militaristic. ...more

November 2, 2009

What deputies thought were pipe bombs and prosecutors describe as dangerous explosives were actually harmless, homemade model rockets, a defense lawyer told jurors as the trial of Youssef Megahed opened this morning. ...more

March 18, 2009

Cashiers, bartenders and waitresses now have a much greater chance of being caught if they sell alcohol to an underage person. ...more

March 10, 2009

The federal government has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to a Massachusetts mobster who was accidentally shot by an FBI agent in Tampa in 2004. ...more

February 27, 2009

As Arthur G. Nadel made his way to New York on Thursday under the watchful eye of U.S. marshals, the clock ticked away on the 30-day time limit faced by prosecutors to indict the man accused of a hedge fund swindle before they would have to set him free. ...more

February 6, 2009

The traffic in and around Raymond James will be heavy before, during and after today's Super Bowl. ...more

February 1, 2009

Two unfortunate counterparts to democracy are greed and corruption. Rush Limbaugh has said that the salaries and perks extended corporate executives are none of the people's business. This is one of the few areas where he and I part company. I wonder if the recent near-collapse of our economy has changed his thinking. When business failures result in government bailouts, that cost is passed to taxpayers. Excessive salaries often result in stockholders being cheated. These consequences of poor and careless management alone place executives' salaries and perks in the public domain. ...more

January 31, 2009