TAMPA - Shadana Anjeanette Ortega hit her husband in the head with a wooden baseball bat this morning after he called her a profane name, Tampa police say. ...more

January 9, 2008

Dear Abby: It seems I will never meet my "Mr. Right." Every person I'm attracted to is either in a relationship or doesn't like me. ...more

December 30, 2007

Dear Abby: As you know, when students are in their last year of high school, their minds start wandering to other places - college, careers, marriage, etc. But my daughter is the complete opposite. ...more

December 23, 2007

The youngest of my three children will graduate from college in two days. It is the fulfillment of a dream for him, and a step toward what I know will be a bright future. I'm happy, and proud, and … sad. Yes, sad, because this is a huge sea change in my life. ...more

December 16, 2007

Soon I will be released from my present job because of restructuring of the company. I will be eligible for unemployment benefits. Can I apply for my Social Security benefits and collect from both unemployment and Social Security until I find another job? I am 63 years old. ...more

December 4, 2007

THE PROMISES Church member Ruth McGinnis lent the Whites $170,000 in 1995 to help them buy a home. They never paid her back or cared for her as promised. LaShonda Dupree didn't get a home she believed she won in a church-sponsored essay contest in 2002. The Whites repaid McGinnis and bought Dupree a home after their stories ran in the Tribune. ...more

November 11, 2007

Dear Abby: I am in an eight-year marriage that feels like a prison sentence. I have two children younger than 5 and a husband who is mentally and emotionally unstable and has severe addiction to prescription painkillers. If I divorce him, he will have joint custody of our children and, although I want them to know who their father is because they love him, I am terrified of what he might do to them as emotionally unstable as he is. I'm convinced he is capable of murder-suicide just to get at me. ...more

November 9, 2007

Have you ever noticed that the best communication usually happens at the end of the day? When we are so tired we don't feel like talking, and even less like listening, that's when the truest communication happens — between friends, between lovers, between marriage partners, between coworkers, even between parents and kids. One of the best ways to spend meaningful time with a child is to sit down together at the end of the day and simply ask questions, then listen — really listen — to the answers. You don't have to think up fancy questions. "What did you do today?" Or, "How was school?" can give your child a chance to vent. And telling him or her about your day shows the child you consider it a two-way relationship. That is coin of the realm when it comes to avoiding problems and heartaches down the road. ...more

October 28, 2007

About 35 family members and friends came together to help Sallie Duprow celebrate a century of life. ...more

October 27, 2007

Going to war with Iran ... would be very dangerous. It would be something you would not want to do. ...more

October 22, 2007