Area food banks say they have never seen the local economy so bad and the need for emergency donations of food so great. ...more

November 14, 2009

Rick Patton has devoted his career to helping others, mostly the downtrodden and troubled. ...more

March 4, 2009

Rick Patton has devoted his career to helping others, mostly the downtrodden and troubled. ...more

March 4, 2009

Former Bucs coach Jon Gruden waited six years for Warrick Dunn to rejoin the team that drafted him. ...more

February 26, 2009

The determination and tenacity Derrick Brooks and Warrick Dunn bring to the football field stays with them off of it. ...more

February 26, 2009

Warrick Dunn never let on to the students and guests at Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High School on Wednesday afternoon that he had been cut. ...more

February 25, 2009

Warrick Dunn's statistics keep piling up. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back has accumulated more than 10,000 rushing yards and 4,000 receiving yards in his stellar career. ...more

December 10, 2008

In a sign that it is getting tougher to survive, middle class and larger families are now turning to faith-based charitable group the Shepherd Center for emergency allotments of food. ...more

November 15, 2008

"Double dipping" carries such negative undertones with it that it gives the impression of something illegal or at the very least unethical. After checking into what a local candidate was referring to when she accused her competition of "double dipping" it turned out it was simply receiving a retirement check while actively working. ...more

November 2, 2008

Voters all across the state have an opportunity to protect the interest of children, by casting a yes vote for Amendment 2. State legislatures all across the country understand that the marriage-based, two-parent family, consisting of a father and a mother, offers the best socioeconomic safeguards for children. This is why 26 states affirm marriage as the exclusive union of one man and one woman in their constitutions. Additionally, 19 more states (including Florida), have prohibitions against same-sex marriage or polygamy in their statutes. ...more

October 25, 2008