To dentists, Halloween is truly the scariest of holidays - all those sticky, gooey sugary things that pass through the night into the waiting sacks of young trick-or-treaters. ...more

October 31, 2009

It's Halloween, the unofficial national day of candy consumption. In just a few hours, your little darlings will be coming home with their haul of Lemonheads, Sour Skittles and Kit Kat Bars. And you will once again bemoan the junk and its power to destroy kids' appetite for anything remotely healthful. ...more

October 31, 2009

To dentists, Halloween is truly the scariest of holidays - all those sticky, gooey sugary things that pass through the night into the waiting sacks of young trick-or-treaters. ...more

October 28, 2009

Is the holiday's point to gather as much candy as possible? If so, we're again pulling an F on the culinary scorecard. It wasn't always so. ...more

October 23, 2009

About two dozen volunteers carved out about three hours of their Saturday morning to do something that, to Barbara Newlin, seems so simple and yet has such far-reaching impact. ...more

November 17, 2008

Even for those with the most robust sweet tooth, this is just about the time when that pile of candy that looked like plundered treasure on Halloween night is starting to seem like a chocolate-covered albatross you can't make disappear. ...more

November 12, 2008

A minivan rolls through the streets of St. Petersburg. In it, your scribe and Violet, his 3-year-old daughter, listen to the "Madagascar 2" soundtrack without incident until Track 11, "More Than a Feeling," by Boston. ...more

November 6, 2008

or failing - on an even larger stage. ...more

October 18, 2008

WHO: Bryce Meyer CLAIM TO FAME: Seed salesman with charitable intentions ...more

January 7, 2008

HUDSON - A gunshot from a .22-caliber rifle penetrated a Hudson mobile home Saturday, wounding an 11-year-old girl, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reports. ...more

November 18, 2007