Late Thursday, a Citrus County couple found an 8-year-old boy wandering more than a mile from his home. ...more

March 20, 2009

Pinellas County should consolidate fire coverage for its unincorporated areas to save taxpayer money and equalize resources, an audit recommends. ...more

March 13, 2009

Fifth-grader Jordan Brown boarded the bus and headed to school like he does most other mornings in this rural western Pennsylvania community. ...more

February 22, 2009

An 11-year-old girl who told Haines City police she had been abducted later admitted to making the story up, police said. ...more

February 14, 2009

A 30-year-old man was arrested on a child neglect charge Tuesday night after he left two children alone in a home, giving them a hunting knife, hatchet and baseball bat to defend themselves, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

November 5, 2008

My husband and I decided to vote by absentee ballot this year for the first time. When we opened our ballots, we were shocked to see that on the ballot, it said that it must be filled out with a No. 2 pencil, and yet the secret sleeve we were to put the completed ballot in before mailing said that the ballot had to be filled out in either blue or black ink. Both said that if not done properly, the vote would not count. ...more

October 15, 2008

It's easy to see "That Lucky Old Sun" as the spawn of "Smile." Brian Wilson finally got free of that albatross four years ago, completing the album he abandoned in 1967 as his fragile mental and emotional states collided with his ambitions. ...more

September 5, 2008

TAMPA - Attorney John Trevena said Tuesday night that he will ask the governor's office to appoint a special prosecutor to look into how the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has handled its investigation into the disappearance of 5-month-old Sabrina Paige Aisenberg. ...more

July 29, 2008

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled..." - Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal, 1729" ...more

July 18, 2008

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled..." - Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal, 1729" ...more

July 18, 2008