Nazdar, Everyone is welcome at the Support Our Troops Dance on the 4th of July from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Community Hall on Lincoln Avenue. There will be a full bar, hot dogs and other items for a cover charge of $5 per person. You must be 21 years or older; I.D.s will be checked at the door. Active military personnel and their spouses will be admitted free of charge - just present your military I.D. at the door. Half of all proceeds will go to "Lea's Prayers and Postage". For more details, contact Niki at the Masaryktown Post Office at 544-1113. ...more

June 29, 2008

"This makes it official," William Elmo "Mo" Redding said as he proudly showed me a congratulatory card he and is wife Annie Louise received from President George and Laura Bush. It was for the couple's 50th wedding anniversary reached on this June 15, Father's Day. ...more

June 28, 2008

It was up, up and away, this morning. At least I, and a bunch of others, including Elizabeth Stewart, hope it was an up, up and away morning. Elizabeth, you see, is celebrating her 90th birthday on June 4. Since there isn't a whole lot of things you can get for a member of the eldest set, her daughter Barbara is surprising her with a hot air balloon ride today - weather permitting. It's a first for both of them. Not only that it is also a kind of a gift package. Barbara – yes that's county commissioner Barbara Stewart – is celebrating her May 12 wedding anniversary by taking husband Fred along on the same ride. ...more

May 31, 2008

RICHMOND – The brilliant diamond-and-sapphire ring that Henry Hager presented to first twin Jenna Bush when he proposed in August was the result of 125 years of cumulative jewelry experience. ...more

May 10, 2008

My Newcomb pottery vase belonged to my grandmother. A friend of mine, who was enrolled in the pottery program at Tulane University in New Orleans, told me she believes it was made by Sadie Irvine. ...more

February 16, 2008

Born to parents who valued education, 13-year-old Brandon Nunez strived to always make the honor roll at his middle school, his great-grandmother Betty Chapman said. ...more

February 5, 2008

PLANT CITY - A teenager was arrested Sunday morning and charged with stabbing his parents at the family's home on Creek Way Court. ...more

February 4, 2008

Ida Wasserman started her daily workout Monday just after 11 a.m. ...more

January 29, 2008

TAMPA - With the rubble of Central Park Village serving as a backdrop and the fog-shrouded skyline of downtown Tampa peering over the oak trees, an already gutted Meacham Alternative School started to fall this morning. ...more

November 30, 2007

A central Florida man was charged with vehicular homicide after DNA evidence showed he was driving a car that ran a red light and struck another vehicle, killing four family members, authorities said. ...more

November 4, 2007